For example the kisses exchanged between Sole and Aunt Paula are brief and hesitant, showing the strain within the two characters relationship.

disturbed by every little “peck” on a person’s cheek

cliche

Through the constant usage of the greeting, this really highlights the repetition compulsion theory, simply suggesting that our unconscious mind does not like identifying repeating patterns because of the level of anxiety that is produced through this identification process.

death, marriage, motherhood, and sexual abuse.

struggle to return to some form of “normalcy”

costliest

One might even say (given a bit of imaginative licence) that Uncle Tom’s Cabin is to 19th-Century America what (insert your favorite widely consumed television show) is to today.

but its ease of access and popularity is what gave it such weight in its day.

the American story.

Yes, all that self-important pandering could be reduced to seven crude words- sorry Emerson. 

He would be a voice of his generation to enable the average person to shy away from society and conformity and instead, be a free-thinking individual.

If you had asked her she would have said she did it all for love. If you asked me, I’d say it’s nonsense.

This is significant to the story because the familiarity of this type of plot and the stereotypical character tropes demonstrate how this was clearly a story meant for European or colonialist eyes.

All the story does is reiterate the societal bounds that women and minority groups have been trying to break.

bechdel test

I know we all love Pocahontas, but let’s imagine authentic Princess Unca barbie dolls

Despite being saved by the very people whose land he set out to invade,

context

Ripe with examples of unquestionable misery and heartache

I thought of being sold to my husband, as my master spake, but instead of that, my master himself was gone, and I left behind, so that my spirit was now quite ready to sink. I asked them to let me go out and pick up some sticks, that I might get alone, and pour out my heart unto the Lord.

I had not seen my son a pretty while, and here was an Indian of whom I made inquiry after him, and asked him when he saw him. He answered me that such a time his master roasted him, and that himself did eat a piece of him, as big as his two fingers, and that he was very good meat.

Connecticut river

Then one of the company drew his sword, and told me he would run me through if I did not go presently. Then was I fain to stoop to this rude fellow, and to go out in the night, I knew not whither.

The highest type of friendship is the relation of "brother-friend" or "life-and-death friend." This bond is between man and man, is usually formed in early youth, and can only be broken by death. It is the essence of comradeship and fraternal love, without thought of pleasure or gain, but rather for moral support and inspiration. Each is vowed to die for the other, if need be, and nothing denied the brother-friend, but neither is anything required that is not in accord with the highest conceptions of the Indian mind.

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by inter-marriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.

wild mother

The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb. From the moment of her recognition of the fact of conception to the end of the second year of life, which was the ordinary duration of lactation, it was supposed by us that the mother's spiritual influence counted for most. Her attitude and secret meditations must be such as to instill into the receptive soul of the unborn child the love of the "Great Mystery" and a sense of brotherhood with all creation. Silence and isolation are the rule of life for the expectant mother. She wanders prayerful in the stillness of great woods, or on the bosom of the untrodden prairie, and to her poetic mind the immanent birth of her child prefigures the advent of a master-man -- a hero, or the mother of heroes -- a thought conceived in the virgin breast of primeval nature, and dreamed out in a hush that is only broken by the sighing of the pine tree or the thrilling orchestra of a distant waterfall.

He had neither a national army nor an organized church. There was no priest to assume responsibility for another's soul. That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.

An additional liability posed by these novels is in their perpetuation of the stereotype that Native Americans, even when conversing with each other in their own language, find it impossible to speak articulately and to the point. If one had only the evidence of these novels to go by, one might well conclude that metaphor formed the basis of every indigenous thought pattern. This ritualized form of lan- guage, the bastardized product of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century clerical trans- lators at treaty conferences, has become so associated with Native American utter- ance that today its usage in certain circles is practically mandatory to insure ethnic credibility.

By far the greatest volume of fiction pertaining to Native Americans has been written about them by non-Natives. Such works have enjoyed wide and consistent popularity among the Euro-American readership for at least the past three hundred years and have spawned such diverse offshoots as Wild West Shows, cowboy and Indian movies, boy scout ceremonies, and cigar-selling statues.

Hence the term "American Indian Literature" is largely ambiguous and begs more questions than it answers. Does it refer, one may query, to the sum total of all oral literary traditions in each of more than three hundred mutually unintelligible lan- guages?

For a very long time the world, for Europeans, was simply Europe. Everyone in that uworld, though fluidly divided by national boundary or linguistic variance, shared several basic similarities; virtually everyone spoke languages derived from a single language Family, Indo-European. Moreover, the lingual affinities of pre-Colonial Europe were further re-enforced and