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Wes’ brother Frank is a prime example of the abuse of power in return to get greater power and dominance. Frank uses he’s ‘power’ of being a doctor in the wrong manner and in once corrupted way. He abuses Indiana girls by making inappropriate sexual advances towards them in the fashion of rapping and assaulting them. In the novel Julian wants Frank to be set free and doesn’t see the matter that Frank has committed many serious crimes and they have had serious repercussions on the community and they can’t go unpunished. Nobody knows that more than Wes and Julian Hayden.

Through out the whole book Indians were judged wrongly. To the white people, they were of no value to anybody. They assumed that all Indians were uneducated, unintelligent, and useless. In the end, Wesley’s foolish choice to not arrest his brother in the beginning caused Marie to be murdered. When Frank admits his crime to Wesley they agree that he can be kept prisoner in the Hayden’s basement. After a few days as a prisoner Frank commits suicide. Wesley is haunted by his decisions for the rest of his life. The moral of the book, is to treat everyone as an equal. Holding a grudge again one race is not going to get you anywhere, if anything it will work out for the worst. Montana 1948 is the perfect example of racism unleashing horrible truths and devastating

Richard Henry Pratt states that “all the Indian there is in the race should be dead. Kill the Indian in him, and save the man” (Senier, 375). This terrifying idea is somewhat exemplified in Ramona. Despite Helen Hunt Jackson’s best intentions, Native American identity is sacrificed in order for Native American characters to survive or even be seen as human beings. Jackson sacrifices Ramona and Alessandro to appeal to a white audience. Native American identity should not have to be watered down or erased, especially in a novel advocating for Native American rights. I argue that “literary sugar-pilling”(Senier, 22) in the form of Jackson’s erasure of Native American identity can be just as racist and dehumanizing as the anti-Native American beliefs that Jackson was trying to dispel.

From the perspective of new criticism about only looking for a meaning in the text, I think new critics would be interested in page 20 where the narrator, Adam Ewing, has a vision about himself speaking Indian language, shaming his family causing them run away and he tries ‘striving[ly] to rectify this misunderstanding.’ His vision is interesting because when we are looking at what happening in it, we’ll see that he has a fear about becoming another race which is not White, and this shows the critics that the narrator has a concept about superiority of race in his mind. Related to the incident, the other pages of his journal show Ewing’s concern about race, Whites as a higher status then other races like Indians, Blacks and so on and a duty

Here, the dominance of preconception in society, deprives the disenfranchised as both Montana 1948 and To Kill A Mockingbird evoke responders to consider the indecorous conduct and inequality of the societies reflected in these novels. Correspondingly, the mentality of the Hayden’s is portrayed through David’s Grandfather when he states, "Screwing an Indian… You don't lock up a man for that." This direct speech presents that the white population believed Indians were considered less than human beings. “Screwing” refers to sexual assault committed by Frank and the statement “you don’t lock up a man for that” displays ‘man’ as white individuals, portraying that because he did it to an Indian, it isn’t classified as a crime. Here, the biased opinions that sexual assault isn’t a delinquency due to an individuals race, allows enfranchised individuals to obtain authority over the disenfranchised. Thus, Watson challenges responders to consider the detrimental consequences Indians experienced in the 1940s.

Local doctor Frank Hayden is one of the many people in the Bentrock community to overstep his power and mistreat it. By sexually abusing a debilitated minority – Sioux women – he was able to commit his crimes under a cover of fear, social status, and common racial prejudice. However, when Gail tells Wes

As the novel explores how race operates between whites and Indians, it displays the way that race shapes Arnold’s life as a mixed Indian (half-white, half-Indian). Early in the novel, Arnold, describes his experience with the dentist

Native Son by Richard Wright Who is the victim in a prejudiced civilization? The dominant group or the minority? "Native Son," a novel by Richard Wright, focuses on the effects of racism on the oppressors and the oppressed. It establishes that in an ethnically prejudiced society discrimination comes from everywhere, and most monumental occurrences only contribute to its decline. The story is set in Chicago in the 1930s. The

“I got up and pretended to study the pictures on the walls like I was a lover of religious art. When I got to the Merciful Mother right above Sinita’s head, I reached in my pocket and pulled out the bottom I’d found on the train. It was sparkly like a diamond and had a little hole in back so you could thread a ribbon through it and wear it like a romantic lady’s choker necklace. It wasn’t something I’d do, but I could see the button would make a good trade with someone inclined in that direction.

Richard Wright’s novel, Native Son, addresses racial issues within the society through the character of Bigger Thomas. Bigger Thomas is a young black man living in the Chicago area in the 1930’s where he is hired as a chauffeur by a white family, the Dalton’s. As a black man, Bigger has a prominent feeling of anxiety and fear about everything that he does around white people, which is instilled in him from the media's racial opinions. The frequent use of media throughout the novel illuminates the prejudices and racism that push Bigger to act on his fear.

The topic of racism is big in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. The reservation is an example of racism, straight off the beginning of the book it is clear poverty is a big problem in these reservations. The quote on page 3 state's, “Witnesses. They were all witnesses and nothing more. For hundreds of years, Indians were witnesses to crimes of an epic scale. Victor’s uncles were in the midst of a misdemeanor that would remain one even if somebody was to die. One Indian killing another did not create a special kind of storm. This little kind of hurricane was

Divisions based on race create an environment that swells communities with tension until they explode. A perfect example of this is found in Richard Wright’s Native Son, which depicts Bigger, a poor African American, living in segregated Chicago. Due to the oppression and unjust conditions of society at the time Bigger is herded towards a path of criminal action that even Bigger himself expected. Wright’s underlying opinion throughout Native Son, is that the oppression placed upon people of color is cruel and that society should be striving towards changing the status quo.

Richard Wright’s novel, Native Son, depicts the life of the general black community in Chicago during the 1930’s. Though African Americans had been freed from slavery, they were still burdened with financial and social oppression. Forced to live in small, unclean quarters, eat foods on the verge of going bad, and pay entirely too much for both, these people struggled not to be pressured into a dangerous state of mind (Bryant). All the while, they are expected to act subserviently before their oppressors. These conditions rub many the wrong way, especially Bigger Thomas, the protagonist of the story. Though everyone he is surrounded by is going through all the same things that he is, growing up poor and uneducated has made Bigger angry at the whole world. You can see this anger in everything he does, from his initial thoughts to his final actions. Because of this, Bigger Thomas almost seems destined to find trouble and meet a horrible fate. Wright uses these conventions of naturalism to develop Bigger’s view of the white community(). With all of these complications, Bigger begins to view all white people as an overwhelming force that drags him to his end. Wright pushes the readers into Bigger’s mind, thoroughly explaining Bigger’s personal decay. Even Wright himself says that Bigger is in fact a native son, just a “product of American culture and the violence and racism that suffuse it” (Wright).

Ifemelu once said “I discovered race in America” (499). Even though racism is not only an American problem, due to its great diversity, America definitely is one of the nations that have the most social struggles and conflicts associated with races. In her famous novel, Americanah, Adichie vividly depicts how racism would affect a person and how that character would respond to such discrimination through various perspectives. By demonstrating the devastating effect of racism on characters in her novel, Adichie successfully establishes a powerful argument that racism is a tumor deeply rooted within the society and even though its removal will be time-consuming and challenging, it is still the uttermost urgency. Throughout the novelplot, characters in Adichie’s book have a variety of responses when they encounter racial discriminations, yet the message Adichie tries to send through these responses is the same: racism causes great pain in this society.

Throughout the novel there are examples of racist attitudes and oppression by the Anglo- Indians towards the natives. Major Callendar boasts about torturing an injured Indian youth by putting pepper on his shattered face; Mr Mc Bryde expresses supercilious views of the lust the Indians show for white women; Ronny Heaslop is ignorant; Miss Dereck shows anger towards her Indian employers; and Mr Turton is arrogant towards the