Abigail Williams
Abigail Williams is also one of the main characters of the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller. In the play, Abigail, and the other young girls, has the lowest social rank, not counting the slaves. When Abigail and the girls are given the power to emanate those who are involved in witchcraft, they unremittingly point their fingers as those the girls do not like. Nevertheless, the girls act as if they supersede the power of the ministers and other male adults in the society. Abigail did not inhibit her accusation, for she fears that her transitory power would retrogress her social status once the power is taken away. Abigail has scarified many innocent lives to meet her jealousy.
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EXERCISES from Sherman Alexie's Indian Education
1. What is the significance of the narrator’s glasses in the first-grade scenario?
I think the significance of the narrator’s glasses is that they represent the narrator’s cowardliness and his acceptance of the aide from the white government, that is why the narrator keeps on being bullied and his glasses where being thrown around.
2. What can you assume from the narrator’s first-grade school? Who were his fellow classmates?
I think that the narrator’s first grade school is filled with Indian students and the teachers are all whites. In terms of his classmates, I think his classmates are all Indians.
3. What does the narrator mean when he tells us that his teacher said, “Indian” without capitalization? What is the significance of the narrator’s response?
I think the narrator means that his teacher is biased and racist toward Indians; the teacher look at Indians with no respect at all. I think the narrator’s response clearly shows that he is proud of being an Indian.
4. What does the narrator mean by the line “I’m still waiting” in paragraph 21?
I think the line “I'm still waiting” represents the narrator’s want for freedom of expression and being treated equally, which are something that the narrator did not receive when he was young.
5. What effect does kissing the white girl have on the narrator in seventh grade? Why does he say after that “no one spoke to me for another five hundred years”?
I think that after kissing the white girl, the narrator felt guilty because he thought the being an Indian, he should not betray his “blood” by kissing a white girl instead of a Indian girl. He said that because his tribe and his family thought that he had betrayed them, and thus, people treat him as an outcast.
6. The narrator switches to a new school for junior high. What is different about the new school?
The new school teaches more of academic stuff, as well, from the narrator’s stories, I don’t think there is very much discrimination toward narrator.
7. How do you interpret the line “There is more than one way to starve”?
I think the line means that some people choose to starve (like the girls in the story) while other people have to starve (like the poor and the narrator’s family), but no matter how they starve, they starve.
8. What stereotypes do the teachers in the story have of Native Americans?
They think that the Native Americans are all drunks, bad, and inferior than the whites.
9. Why does the narrator tell us of the teacher who assumed he was drunk in the eighth grade was Chicano? How did you respond to the narrator’s assertion in paragraph 59?
The narrator mentioned the teacher who assumed he was drunk was a Chicano because the narrator thinks that the teacher adopted racism toward other races, even though he’s not a white.
I think that narrator is being sarcastic that the teacher who has darker skin are laughing at the other people who have darker skin as well.
10. What do you think the postscript means?I think the postscript means that after his education with the whites, his thinking become more like a white instead of an Indian.
I think the significance of the narrator’s glasses is that they represent the narrator’s cowardliness and his acceptance of the aide from the white government, that is why the narrator keeps on being bullied and his glasses where being thrown around.
2. What can you assume from the narrator’s first-grade school? Who were his fellow classmates?
I think that the narrator’s first grade school is filled with Indian students and the teachers are all whites. In terms of his classmates, I think his classmates are all Indians.
3. What does the narrator mean when he tells us that his teacher said, “Indian” without capitalization? What is the significance of the narrator’s response?
I think the narrator means that his teacher is biased and racist toward Indians; the teacher look at Indians with no respect at all. I think the narrator’s response clearly shows that he is proud of being an Indian.
4. What does the narrator mean by the line “I’m still waiting” in paragraph 21?
I think the line “I'm still waiting” represents the narrator’s want for freedom of expression and being treated equally, which are something that the narrator did not receive when he was young.
5. What effect does kissing the white girl have on the narrator in seventh grade? Why does he say after that “no one spoke to me for another five hundred years”?
I think that after kissing the white girl, the narrator felt guilty because he thought the being an Indian, he should not betray his “blood” by kissing a white girl instead of a Indian girl. He said that because his tribe and his family thought that he had betrayed them, and thus, people treat him as an outcast.
6. The narrator switches to a new school for junior high. What is different about the new school?
The new school teaches more of academic stuff, as well, from the narrator’s stories, I don’t think there is very much discrimination toward narrator.
7. How do you interpret the line “There is more than one way to starve”?
I think the line means that some people choose to starve (like the girls in the story) while other people have to starve (like the poor and the narrator’s family), but no matter how they starve, they starve.
8. What stereotypes do the teachers in the story have of Native Americans?
They think that the Native Americans are all drunks, bad, and inferior than the whites.
9. Why does the narrator tell us of the teacher who assumed he was drunk in the eighth grade was Chicano? How did you respond to the narrator’s assertion in paragraph 59?
The narrator mentioned the teacher who assumed he was drunk was a Chicano because the narrator thinks that the teacher adopted racism toward other races, even though he’s not a white.
I think that narrator is being sarcastic that the teacher who has darker skin are laughing at the other people who have darker skin as well.
10. What do you think the postscript means?I think the postscript means that after his education with the whites, his thinking become more like a white instead of an Indian.
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