A+Trip+Westword

=Summary=

This is the chapter when Zitkala-Sha was released from the pale faces to go back home to the West. She goes home and to her surprise her mother doesn’t come running to her with excitement, instead she stands there in shock wondering why Zitkala’Sha has brought home a man. Zitkala-Sha explains to her mother that he was just her driver. Her mom was relieved and ran to her to give her a big hug. Soon after they went into the cabin, Zitkala-Sha realized that her mom had changed some of her living styles to the ways of pale faces. Her windows were parallel and they had pink flowered print on the curtains. So she had changed her styles a little bit. But not completely because then Zitkala-Sha asks her mother why the house isn’t cemented, it would be much easier when it was raining out. But then she was reminded by her mother that she was to old to be working on those things anymore and Dawee lost his job to a Pale face. At the end Zitkala-Sha’s mom says all we can do is pray. At that moment Zitkala-Sha burst out that, "Mother, don't pray again! The Great Spirit does not care if we live or die! Let us not look fo good or justice: then we shall not be disappointed!" . That shows that Zitkala-Sha was loosing her Indian ways and turning into a pale face.

=Analysis= This chapter reminds me of when Americans first started moving to Canada. And when we got there we wanted them to change their language to american language because we thought it would be better for everyone. But really they didnt think that us envading them telling them to change their language to ours was right. So they still have some french going around in Canada. This was happening during the book, Zitkala-Sha did want to go see the East but she did'nt relize that they were going to trick her into changing her ways of life. It ended up okay but in the process the indians didnt want to change how they were living they thought it was fine.

Another connection is what we're doing to Iraq right now, we're trying to make them like us against their will. But we think it right so we hope everything will come out good. In the book the pale faces are taking over and trying to force the Indians to have the same living styles as us. In both cases we think it will turn out good but i dont think we realize what we're causing these people to go through.

This chapter shows that now Zitkala-Sha and her mom are both about to change their ways. Her mom because on page 89 it says, she makes only compromises with the pale faces. But this shows that she allows them to in some way tell her what to do. Zitkala-Sha you can see is changing because of what she said to her mother at the end of the chapter about the great spririt. At that point it seemed like she had turned against her cultural ways. She was inbetween a pale face and an Indian.