Iron+Routine

__**Summary:**__ This chapter is telling about the morning routine of a day at the school. You wake up freezing cold to a loud bell from happy dreams of Western rolling hills and unlassoed freedom. There is short time to get dressed and jump in your shoes before another small hand bell rings. Everyone runs downstairs to attendance in the assembly room for fear of being late. Then a white woman takes roll call, quickly marking absentees and tardiness. There is no excuse for being late, even if you're sick. There isn't time for anything but the routine. She goes on to tell a story of how she knew a girl who died from the routine. Waking up early, going to school even if your sick. The iron routine killed her. The Indian children are being assimilated. The paleface want them to all be the same and fit in by reacting to bell and order in unison. In this chapter, it is about them having to wake up every morning by bell and then continue there daily activities the same way from bell. They are told when to eat, sit, wash, sleep and learn. We all of some type of a routine in the morning but theres is so harsh a girl died from it. They have to do this everyday through sickness and fatigue. No excuses.

__**Analysis:**__ Zitkala-Sa despises the paleface who killed her dear classmate. The iron routine killed her. Illness was not an excuse for being late. Following the routine everyday was painful and suffering, but it was impossible to leave it. Many times they would go about their day feeling sick and exhausted. When her classmate dies she grows bitter and blames the paleface woman who takes roll call every morningfor the cruel neglect of their physical illness, even though its not really her fault. The paleface woman is also a part of the routine. She also wakes herself up every morning and takes the roll call of all of the kids at the school. Although her schedule isn't quite as strenuous as the students, she is still a part of the iron routine.