In the acknowledgements at the beginning of the book, Conrad Richter says this:
“Already two hundred years ago . . . our ideals and restrained manner of existence repelled the Indian. I felt that if we understood how these First Americans felt toward us even then and toward our white way of life, we might better understand the adverse, if perverted, view of us by some African, European, and Asian peoples today.”
What is Richter trying to tell us, in this passage and in the rest of the book, about how people perceive one another? What is important about how we perceive one another? How does this problem affect the characters in the book?
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Conrad Richter is trying to tell us that if we could understand how the Indian people were than we would not think that all of their ways are bad. People think that if someone is not like you or if they do not do things the same as you then all of their ways are wrong.
If we see someone in the wrong way by what we do then we can miss out on knowing someone that could possibly be your friend. This problem affects a great deal to the characters in the book. If the Indians and the whites could just see the other ones point of view then maybe they could have got along.
Richer is trying to tell us tobelive in ourselves because we will find the anwser. To follow your heart not just your mind and keep you mind open to anything that can happen.
If we think someone is bad our whole life before meeting or getting to know them then that isn't fair you shouldnt judge someone on what he said she said whatever. Give eveyone a chance.
I believe that the point Conrad Richter is trying to make is that you shouldn’t judge people by what race they are. He is trying to make us understand the fact that it is not right to go and judge people. It is a very racist problem when you make fun of people who are of different races.
In the book Uncle Wilse and others make fun of Indians. They treat them like dirt and call them bad names. True Son or Johnny Butler get very angry and ends up killing Uncle Wilse. That is what sometimes happens when people make fun of others in a negative way. Violence strikes!
He is telling us that it is wrong to dislike other because they and there kind is different.
It is good to at least give them a chance and show you their way from their point of view. By the characters in the book not doing this they started conflict between the whites and the Indians.
Richer is trying to tell us that how we preceive one another is very important. Like if we thougth someone was strange we would treat them differently from the rest of us.
How we precive one auother is how we will treat one another. So if we thought some one was mean we would treat them meanly.
How the indians precived the whites
affcted hiw True Son treated thme and how the whites precived the indians affected how some of them treated True Son.
Richard is trying to say that we misunderstood and forgot about the Indians. Also he is saying we do this because they were not the first Americans we were at least that is what we thought. Conrad is also saying this book takes us through the eyes of the Indians and how we were wrong. He means that we see each other differently due to our beliefs about each other.
It is important to remember to see each other with equal eyes. This is important to maintain equality between different people. Also it is important to see each other through indifferent eyes. This can help keep us from battle.
The charters in the book were at a state of war because of differences among them. Little crane got killed because he was an Indian. They scalped uncle Wilse because he was white. All of this affected them and more because of the way they perceived each other.
That even though we look different from one another we are the same in side .
Like in the book true son thought he was an indian even though he was white so he fought his way out and once he returned to Cuyloga he was not accepted into his tribe so he was in the world alone
Conrad Richter is trying to tell us it doesn't matter what your belief or race is. In this book the indian people tried to tell True Son that the whites are bad. Same for the whites they taught True Son to hate the indians for what they do to childern and people. He is trying to tell us that everyone is the same.
I think Conard Ritcher is trying to say to us that times have changed from then to now. It has changed in many ways like electricity,and clothing. If we saw an indian we will go up to him and ask him a lot of question.He will run of to the woods and never come back. We would do the same thing to Jesus if he came down to earth for ten days and go back to heaven you just come up to someone and ask them questions to they leave you have to let them have there own space. You have to teach them that this is right and this is wrong.
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