The story of “Indian Horse” by Richard Waganese was bad when it was adapted into a movie. The story of Indian Horse is about a young boy who got taken to a residential school where he learned to play hockey as a coping mechanism from the pain he suffered from. Indian Horse is a very complete story based off of the very terrible things that happened to the native people of Canada. The movie takes all this and creates an awful movie. The movie did not have the same emotion as the story. The “Indian Horse” movie made the residential school look good. When the kids were eating dinner, they laughed. Which, if this was real, would not have been at all true. The kids did not want to be at the school. Even in the book, the kids were not having fun, …show more content…
A powerful line from the start of the book was “at St. Jerome, we work to remove the Indians from our children “. But in the movie, it was nowhere to be seen. But that begs the question of why take out the best description of the residential school. Saul's alcoholism and trauma were apathetic in the movie. There were only two full scenes of him being drunk, but they did not feel real, and I do not think there was enough screen time to show the impact of his drinking on his life. I do think that he had one good quote being “you drink down because after all the roads you’ve travelled that’s the only direction you know by heart.” which does have a good impact and a great message, but that’s really all there is. It does not feel like he took a rock-bottom, but then he instantly goes to an addiction center, but you don’t get to see enough of his drinking, which I think is a really big problem for the movie. The scene of the. Where all the moose get beat up, and then they all just don’t talk for the entire ride back because of how mad they were. It immediately changed with them laughing it off in the …show more content…
I felt like it just made the movie have no more connection when I read that. I was disgusted by how people treated them and how they must’ve felt, but the movie just tried to make it funny. That scene was the most disgusting and most eye-opening as well, that people can be so evil. The writers could have made this better. The ending of the movie Indian horse what is the worst ending possible the way the end of that scene where he walked back to the ice with his family sees him they all just walked back up to him and give him hugs and stuff was terrible it just felt like a reunion that he just saw them again which just was so much worse than the ending in the book in the book the final scene was He won the face off, but I didn’t care this goes back to him never winning the face-off, but he still was a good guy. able to win games and the fact that he didn’t care meant that he was just having fun. it wasn’t about to be a competition. it was about him reconnecting with his family after being an alcoholic and running away. but now the movie they just reconnected. nothing
I think the book had a perfect ending. In the beginning of the book, Rana’s dad didn’t want him to join the minor hockey team because he thought it was not meant for Sikh’s but in the end he was the person who forced Rana to talk to Les when he came to Rana’s house after the fire. He also told Rana that not everyone is the same, just because only two white men were against Sikh’s doesn’t mean that every white person is like that. He also told Rana that he will not leave the hockey
The issue of racism against the black race in Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, and the issue of prejudice of the Native American race in Richard Wagamese’s, Indian Horse, reveal the hardships that these two races endure. It also highlights how these races, as a whole, attempt to push through these hardships, but only one race is headed towards success. The effects of such hardships differ between the two races. Firstly, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robinson is accused of rape by the daughter of Bob Ewell, who is known as the town drunk. This novel takes place after the Great Depression, and at this time it would be considered unheard-of to pronounce a black person innocent in a trial against a white man. Atticus Finch
In the opening chapters, the story hadn’t picked up growth as much as I hoped. The main characters lived in a refugee camp and had considerably harsh living conditions. In my viewpoint, much of the beginning consisted of descriptions of the scenes and dialogue which were mostly irrelevant to the storyline, except for their origin story and the death of their mother. Though, when the journey from the camp to Kikima began, the story’s development accelerated, making me more engrossed in the book. Beyond that, I think Eric Walters did an excellent job not being repetitive with the description of the continual scene of the settings, the laborious walking and its toll on the two, since that would’ve driven my interest away.
I think you should keep on showing this movie to your other classes. When you showed this movie, all the kids in class paid attention to it and actually learned something from it because it caught there attention unlike other movies we have seen. If you show this to other classes it will have the same result and will help you in teaching the class. Also, the movie helped us understand how life was like in the West. It showed us that the soldiers were really ruthless and that they would just kill the buffalo for the hide and tongue, leaving the rest of the animal there to rot. While the Indians would take everything from the animal and use it to there advantage and there would be nothing to waste.
Saul Indian Horse is an Ojibway child who grew up in a land which offered little contact with anyone belonging to a different kind of society until he was forced to attend a residential school in which children were being stripped away of their culture with the scope of assimilating them into a more “civilized” community. Saul’s childhood in the school, greatly pervaded by psychological abuse and emotional oppression, was positively upset once one of the priests, Father Leboutillier, introduced him to the world of hockey, which soon become his sole means of inclusion and identification, mental well-being and acknowledged self-worth in his life. It is though universally acknowledged how, for every medal, there are always two inevitably opposite
Stories are much more than just ink placed in clean rows on paper or dialogues that travel through air columns. All stories transform worldly experiences into sources of inspiration and perspicuity and Saul Indian Horse’s story is no exception. In Richard Wagamese’s novel, Indian Horse, Saul Indian Horse explains the events that have resulted in him receiving treatment for alcoholism at a rehab centre. Readers are exposed to the former hockey player’s moments of triumph, failure, and everything that falls in between. Saul mentions in his story how a leisure pursuit like hockey granted him temporary freedom and happiness from his sorrow-filled life. Saul’s example can inspire First Nations individuals to remain resilient in the face of adversity.
Indian Horse is a novel by Richard Wagamese that beautifully explores the idea of family, and what it means to have people around you that make you feel at home. The reader is bombarded with an overwhelming sense of family and betrayal in the first few pages of the novel. As Richard Wagamese continues to write, one is able to see how safe Saul Indian Horse felt with his biological family, and he also shows how lost he felt without their love when he was taken to the Residential School. The school he was brought to was drained of all consensual love the moment it was open, and continued to fill the children with horrible feelings the entire time they were there. Indian Horse was unable to really feel as though he still had family while he was in the
The novel “Indian Horse” by Richard Wagamese demonstrates the many conflicts that indigenous people encounter on a daily basis. This includes things such as, the dangers they face and how they feel the need to flee to nature, where they feel the most safe. Another major issue they face is being stripped of their culture, and forcibly made to believe their culture is wrong and they are less of a human for being brought up that way, it makes them feel unworthy. Finally, when one is being criticised for a hobby they enjoy due to their indigenous upbringing, they make himself lose interest and stop the hobby as it makes them different and provokes torment. People who are trying
“Don’t you read the papers? I’m the Rampaging Redskin.” (Wagamese, 165) This quote indicates how the the Residential School system is starting to effect Saul’s mentality that he is inferior than the non-Indigenous population. In addition, the non-Indigenous population portray offensive racial slurs against the Aboriginal population. “Thirteen’s good for an Indian.” (Wagamese, 89) This quote states how society degraded Indians and consider them to be useless. Discrimination towards the Natives in Canada becomes the leading issue that Saul results into his tragic lifestyle. “We don’t eat with Indians.” (Wagamese, 133) This quote is a representation of the discrimination Saul is forced to endure and demonstrates the lack of education of non-Indigenous people. Consequently, the prevalence of racism in Indian Horse sets as a perfect example of the discrimination many Canadians are experiencing in today’s society.
When individuals face obstacles in life, there is often two ways to respond to those hardships: some people choose to escape from the reality and live in an illusive world. Others choose to fight against the adversities and find a solution to solve the problems. These two ways may lead the individuals to a whole new perception. Those people who decide to escape may find themselves trapped into a worse or even disastrous situation and eventually lose all of their perceptions and hops to the world, and those who choose to fight against the obstacles may find themselves a good solution to the tragic world and turn their hopelessness into hopes. Margaret Laurence in her short story Horses of the Night discusses the idea of how individual’s responses
Both Saul Indian Horse and Winston Smith use writing as a means of survival from repression. In Indian Horse, Saul uses writing as a means of seeing what made him turn away from the pain of his rape and cease repressing its happening; for him survive and live on with his life. Saul writes memoirs to find the hidden answers of why he turned to violence and alcoholism and using them to break free of the cycle. From pages two to three Saul says “They say I can’t understand where I’m going if I don’t understand where I’ve been. The answers are within me, according to them. By telling our stories, hardcore drunks like me can set ourselves free from the bottle and the life that took us there …. So Moses gave me permission to write things down. So
The book and the movie were both very good. The book took time to explain things like setting, people’s emotions, people’s traits, and important background information. There was no time for these explanations the movie. The book, however, had parts in the beginning where some readers could become flustered.
Over the past two centuries, First Nations people have been oppressed by the Canadian society and continue to live under racism. The struggles, injustices, prejudice, and discrimination has played a significant role in the construction and impact of how they are treated and viewed in the modern society. Saul Indian Horse from Richard Wagamese's "Indian Horse" and Chanie Wenjack from Gord Downie's "The Stranger" are the perfect examples of how the belief that First Nations were inferior to the Europeans impacted the Aboriginal generations. However, both of the characters can be compared and contrasted by the following ways. As they both go through the breakdown of family bonds and the traumatic sufferings of residential schools, but they differ
“All the Pretty Horses”, a novel written by Cormac McCarthy tells the tale about a man and his friend travelling the plains of Mexico after leaving their homes in Texas. As the novel’s name alludes to, horses are a central theme in the story as they represent manhood and freedom when John Grady, the protagonist, and his friend Rawlins get thrown in jail. McCarthy’s novel became critically-acclaimed which gained him more recognition, as well as a movie adaptation directed by Billy Bob Thornton. Even though Thornton’s adaption has the basics of the novel’s story it does not appropriately grasps its depth. While Thornton’s version stays faithful to the dialogue from the book’s included scenes it does fall short by having an erratic pace, having
The image titled Marriage a la Mode: The Marriage Settlement implies that the women during that time are being married off to a man, based on wealth, and it brings feelings of extreme sadness and oppression upon the bride. The only woman in the photograph appears in an all white dress. In many traditional countries, on a woman’s wedding day, she must wear all white as she walks down the aisle. In addition, the disparing expression on her face (frowning lips and crouched eyebrows) and her complexion, which is whiter than her clothing, indicates that she is not happy nor intrigued by the idea of having a husband not chosen by her.