Leslie Marmon Silko's In The Combat Zone

Most women do allow themselves to be a target in today’s age. As it talks about in the story “In the combat zone” by Leslie Marmon Silko. It’s very important to be able to protect yourself as a woman. The author and I were brought up in different environments. It was okay for her to be a tomboy, while it was not okay for me. I was very secluded growing up, compared to the author who was out there in the world doing things, experiencing and learning things with her father. In addition to being raised in different households, I was unprepared for what could happen to me, the author seemed prepared and unafraid. If the author's father didn’t give her the chance to hunt, and the opportunity to take care of herself and not be afraid, her predicaments would end with probable unfortunate circumstances just like mine. Thankfully her father’s knowledge and words of

In her younger ages, she used a gun for entertainment, she loved to hunt with her father. The author was educated and taught about guns, by her father because of the unsaddling event of her grandmother and mother on highway 66 when the three men that were trying to run them off the road for the large cash amount that was used for cashing payroll checks for the miners. As she got older her gun was there for protection and security. She was more assured with it that she would be able to protect herself.
As for myself growing up in a family of three boys and being the middle child, my father taught me to defend myself yet I now know that I should have learned much more. When I was a toddler and even when I was in high school my father would tell me to defend myself. I wasn’t afraid of anything because I had no idea what was really going on. The only thing I was taught was to act immediately, right when someone attempted to harm me and when it came down to it, I knew my older brother Julian was there to