wellcome!! ^^

Saturday, August 11, 2007

answer novel's questions

#1. In the end of the novel, Taylor will get marry with Jax, and still live with Turtle However, Turtle just lives with Taylor during the time she goes to school. In the summer time, she will come back to Oklahoma and live with her grandfather- Cash and her grandmother- Alice because Alice and Cash will get married. Annawake will call, go to visit her brother- Gabe and bring him back to Oklahoma- to his tribe.
#2. The main theme of this story is the reflection of the miracle life of Native American people, the unfairness in dealing of white people to Cherokee people. The Cherokee people were forced to move to a poor land- where didn't have water also couldn't plant any crop. Beside the movement to poor land, the Cherokee people were also suffered the losing of their children. The children had to study abroad when they were in the age to go to school. For example, Cash's story about his life when studying abroad. He couldn't come back to join in his mother's funeral. Moreover, to children whose parents were alcoholic. The English government would take them away their real mother and let them be adopted by white family- such as the situation of Annawake's brother- Gabe. The children of Cherokee tribe easily forgot the culture of their tribe, the image of their native family, and the birth- mother's language and tended to live as a white people.
#3.I think her new interpretation is her changing thought about the relationship between the relative in the family to their children. In the myth of pigs in heaven that she told to Jax, I thought the mother would be very satisfied with what she did to her children because they were very lazy, so they deserved to received that treatment. However, I thought the mother was very cruel. When Annawake retold that story, I realize that the mother was very love her children because after her wish, she felt very regretful and begged the spirits to return her children. That is also the moral for every one that parents are always the first persons available forgive you whenever you did wrong thing. May be they will beat you or force you to do what ever they think is right for you, but the simple explanation for that is because they love you too much. Such as the love of Taylor for Turtle, even thought she doesn't want to lose Turtle, she still let her return to her tribe because she realizes that it is the best decision for Turtle. She thought about the best benefit for Turtle first instead of for herself and it is the reality of a mother's love.
#4.I would like to recommend this book to my friend even though it is a thick book.:)
Still, reading this book, one can understand more about the miracle life of Native American in the past, the belief, myth and culture of Cherokee people, learn more about the moral in the myth of the pigs in heaven and think more about the love of a mother- who is just an adoptive mother.

posted by tyCB6 @ 8:11 AM

1 Comments:

At August 11, 2007 at 5:58 PM, Kris said…

Hi Ty - thanks for your answers.

Your answer to the theme question surprises me. You have focussed exclusively on the Cherokee experience (which is a VERY large part of the novel), but how does this answer relate to the other characters in the book? (Alice, Taylor, Barbie and Jax.) How do you think their thoughts and actions relate to the Cherokee people?

your answer for the third question is very strong! I particularly like the way you have supported your idea with Taylor's willingness to give Turtle up for Turtle's happiness.

Thanks for your work on this. Your score: 47/50