Overall the chapter does a good job at introducing the story and where Zitkala-Sa is coming form. This chapter sets up important scenarios that will come in the future of the text. Zitkala's writing enticed me to read more about the author.

The advanced capability to tell a story from her own point of view is amazing. Zitkala truly draws in the reader from this opening chapter.

Here Zitkala is reaching for the readers sympathy. The story just opens up so fast and suddenly to this little girl looking for ward to going to the land of red apples only to be rudely awakened. The character misses her mother and family and cries the first night. This is a saddening moment in the story and causes the reader to have sympathy for her. This is one of the firs times Zitkala attempts to make an emotional connection with the reader.

past and past participle of tread.

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More describing of a setting from the child's eye. Zitkala's literary technique of using tone of a little girl further enhances how the reader can relate to the character. Great work here by Zitkala-Sa

The foreshadowing in the beginning of the chapter catches up with bad realization of Zitkala of how she is not happy in the land of rosy skies.

Amazing writing form Zitkala here, this is exactly how a child that has never seen stairs would classify stairs as. "An upward incline of wooden boxes" Zitkala's consistency of writing the text from the eyes of a child is superb and she continues to do it throughout the text.

Here we see a good explanation of how a child experiencing something new for the first time would remember a certain memory. As children we do not usually remember specific things that were said instead we remember sounds, smells, and visual images. Zitkala does a good job at portraying what a child might describe something as simple as a bright white room for the first time.

According to: Jessica Enoch “Resisting the Script of Indian Education: Zitkala Ša and the Carlisle Indian School”

She exclaims how Zitkala's work scolded the white culture and explains how she hated assimilating to the Quaker tradition. When the women picked her up and jumped up and down with enthusiasm Zitakala thought that her mother would never do that to her.

She claimed that the white women thought of her as a "play thing" and that her mother would have never done that. Here we see an example of how Zitkala is in disagreement with the white culture and how they handle their youth. This is one of the many instances where Zitkala disagrees with the Quaker lifestyle.

Throughout this text I constantly find parallels in writing methods with Zitkala-Sa. I feel main reason for this is she is the voice of exile. By that I mean she was pushed away from her tribe at a young age. She didn't know why.

According to: Zitkala-Sa| The native voice from exile the author claims that "But biographical information together with agency reports, contemporary opinion and philosophy, and contemporary criticism of her writing can establish a cultural, temporal, linguistic, and aesthetic context, while it also establishes a context of exile."

Here we have evidence of the writing style implemented by the author.

Throughout the text I find interesting parallels with Zitkala-Sa's other memoirs she does.

For example her use of vivid imagery in "Why Am I Pagan" "I pause to rest me upon a rock embedded on the side of a foothill facing the low river bottom." (Zitkala-Sa) She uses the same writing methods in The Land of Red Apples. Throughout the text the reader will find multiple parallels of her different works.

Obviously the author had some sort of connection with nature, Native Americans were taught to respect nature and be very reverent toward it. So seeing a telegraph pole for the first time might have frightened the girl. By that I mean, the girl thought the tree was "hurt" it seemed she believed that the trees could feel pain as if they were alive.

I love this in line in text because it really shows the difference in cultures here. Native Americans are taught to love nature and respect it. While the the other culture of the industrial revolution uses many of natures resources.

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The website explains how this is the authors story from her own point of view. At the age of 8 she was taken to a Quaker missionary school. This text is telling the story of what she experienced as a young child when she first arrived at the Quaker school.

Interesting to see how she does not not like being watched as if other strangers looking at her makes her uncomfortable. The author does a good job at making sure the reader knows how uncomfortable she is with the "white faces".

Here we see how the characters were anticipating to get to the Red Apple Country. They refer to a train as the iron horse because they are unfamiliar with what a train is. It is interesting to see how the author implements this writing method, she is writing the entire story as a point of view from a child.

Furthermore, the author refers to Caucasians as white faces, this shows how the main character is unfamiliar with their surroundings and uses terms like these. The author does a good job at describing simple events taken for granted as an adult.

The author tries to make the the place they are heading so beautiful and amazing. This literary method makes the readers believe they are heading to a good place. It is some kind of foreshadowing of false hope of what is to come from this.

A warrior, especially among North American Indian tribes.

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A sweet delicacy, prepared with sugar, honey, or the like, as preserves, candy, or, formerly, cakes or pastry.

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"Those who are not committed"

noun, plural superfluities. 1. the state of being superfluous. 2. a superabundant or excessive amount. 3. something superfluous, as a luxury.

noun 1. a silver coin of England, equal to four pennies, issued from 1279 to 1662.

"A fat kitchen makes a lean will"

The analogy here is talking about the sin of gluttony and greed.

I like the metaphor here, highlights the aggressiveness of the verbal tone.

verb, Archaic. 1. third person singular present of say1.

Sluggards

noun 1. a person who is habitually inactive or lazy.

In this paragraph we learn allot about the writing method of Benjamin Franklin. It seems he is trying to get the reader to realize they should review oneself before blaming the government taxes.

I like the use of religion here really adds to the intensity of the text. Also quoting the almanac further intensifies the magnitude as well.