Shadow of a Nation

In the article” Shadow of a Nation" by Gary Smith and Kenneth Jarecke talks about the crow and their love for basketball, Basketball is one of the biggest things on the Crow reservation, but many don’t put there talent to good use. On the reservation there’s a lot of drinking occurring and the education isn’t really good there. On the reservation many people are related to one another some way or another. Many teens get killed in car crashes because of drunk driving. Many people are saying that takes enemy is going to be among the few to succeed. One of his coaches said “He would be the one who escaped, wouldn’t he”. Basketball has taken the place of counting coups and also many of their old traditions. “Some way had to be found to count coups, it was basketball” said a member of the Crow tribe. Jonathan Takes enemy has a love for basketball and he’s one of the best players. The people of the Crow tribe want Takes enemy to wear the traditional dress but he doesn’t want to, but will. "Johnathan dreaded the stares that would be drawn to him if he wore the ritual Indian clothing but he couldn't bear to disappoint his people". Takes enemy is finding it hard to be the head of the Crow Nation and he’s faced to be in two worlds at the sometime he said, “why do I have to carry the hopes of the crows”. Takes enemy did succeed he finished collage, but not in the way his people wanted him to. Basketball is a big thing on the crow reservation but its not always enough to get them somewhere, life on the reservation is difficult explained Gary Smith and Kenneth Jarecke.

A brief moment in the life of angus bethune

In the short story “A brief moment in the life of Angus Bethune” by Chris Crutcher explains a boy who’s life is very complicated and feels the need for acceptance not only from others but from himself. Angus has four parents but there’s a twist to it, his parents are homosexual. At school he gets teased by the other students, sometimes he acts out in violent. Angus is a very big boy not only that, he’s also named after a cow. Many other students’ wouldn’t expect this from Angus but he’s very fast for being so over weight. As a trick he gets crowned snowball king. Angus doesn’t know how to dance and at the dance he has to dance with the girl of his dreams. Angus has gone almost all through school and getting teased and picked on about his parents being homosexual, his moms married to his mom and his dads are the same way. Angus gets teased about being over weight all he really wants is to be accepted by others at school. Angus thinks his parents are ambassadors from hell because of them being homo and being over weight witch make him over weight. At school he has a hard time but hes a really good at sports so he takes his agression out on sports. he is crowned snowball king at the dance as a prank, and he has to dance with the girl of his dreams and he dont know how to dance wich makes it worse. at the dance he learns how to dance and that he could all along he just didnt know that he could cuz he nevor really tryed. His dream girl turned out to like him and people start to notice who he was, they noticed that he could be a somebody after all and the guys who picked on him were really the nobodys. chris crutcher gives a very good example of a boy who is going tho alot but he learns he could have as much fun as the other guys and that once he accepts himself that others will also. In the story Chris Crutcher explains a very complicated life and the need for acceptance.

In the time i get

In the short story “In the time I get” by Chris Crutcher gives an example of not letting prejudices get in the way of being a friend and becoming the bigger person because of it.
“I wont tell I said and I knew this time I wouldn’t. It’s hard for me to lie to carter he’s my best friend but I promised”. This story is about a guy named Louie who’s girlfriend had just died last winter and is having a hard time, but what he doesn’t know is that death’s not through with him yet and in an unexpected way also. At the bar he works at, a man walks in in a very elegant way, he has never seen this man around the small town before. Louie introduced himself to the guy and finds out that he’s the boss’s nephew; he wonders why his boss Dakota hasn’t told him that Darren was coming. Darren and Louie start talking then he found out that Darren had ADS and that he was going to die, Louie took off and avoided him for a while because he didn’t deal too well with the death of his girlfriend, and because he didn’t know or really want to know how Darren got ADS. Louie talks to his dead girlfriend sometimes and he remembered that she wasn’t afraid to do anything or care what people would think, so that’s how he got motivated to talk to Darren and learn more about him and to also become his friend. Darren and Louie start hanging out more and more, Louie’s best friend notices that theres somthing up with darren, and tells him to stay clear of that Darren guy because he’s gay. Louie said I didn’t have to worry about what anyone else was thinking he was just a funny sad guy… “But I love myself for what I did say. I said yes”. (Holding Darren’s hand in hospital) In the story Chris Crutcher gives a example of one person who over came there ignorance and became the bigger person by doing so. In the end he gained a friend and lost one.