Blog Post 4

The first paragraph I decided to talk about is the third paragraph of “Cutting my long hair” from Zitkala-Sa. The School Days of an Indian Girl. The writer is being very descriptive here, using these vivid adjectives to give the reader a beautiful description of what is happening in front of here. Throughout this paragraph the writer is describing what a family dinner looks like from someone who has never been to one. The writer explains how she was confused that everyone was standing then sitting and hanging their heads over their plates. “I heard a man’s voice at one end of the hall, and I looked around to see him. But all the others hung their heads over their plates.” paragraph 3 Cutting my long hair. I don’t believe there is any deeper implications being made here. She is just reporting on what she sees due to the fact that she has no idea what is happening.

The second paragraph I would like to bring up is the last paragraph of “Cutting my long hair”. The author describes how her long hair was cut and how “ I lost my spirit.” Zitkala “Cuttting my long hair” once they cut her hair she describes how the people treat her now, tossing her up in the air like some sort of puppet. She explains how her mother never did that to her, she cried out for her mother but no one came. When the writer said she lost her spirit she is talking about her former self, her personality she was raised on, she no longer was that person anymore. It is interesting how she recollects back to her mother as well. “Not a soul reasoned quietly with me, as my own mother used to do; for now I was only one of many little animals driven by a herder.” Zitkala. The author realized that she was no longer a free spirit but a small insignificant being.

19 thoughts on “Blog Post 4”

  1. Zitkala-Sa did have family dinners in her own home, so it’s not quite accurate to say that she’s never been to a family dinner. But her family dinners probably operated quite differently than this institutionalized dinner with a large number of kids gathered into a hall and organized according to western European traditions. Why do you think she chooses to convey her sense of confusion about this event? I think you’re right – the confusion and dislocation is the main experience she wants to convey, but this experience still has significance for her narrative.

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