Recently, we have been reading Montana 1948 in class. In my opinion its a pretty decent book, it doesn't have a standstill plot and the book isn't that long ;)
Uncle Frank rapes and molests the Indian women, so as a woman living on the reservation, they should fear him. I know I would run from him in terror and clock him in the head with a shovel if he ever got near me.
On the reservation, he is one of the only things we have to fear. He stands out among our people because he is an outsider. But Ollie Young Bear is someone I am just a tad less disgusted with than Frank. Young Bear has adapted a new life from our own, and would just as soon turn himself American as he would bat an eyelash. It disgusts me because he is not proud. He is not proud of what he is. He wishes he was white rather than one of us, we wonder what his parents must think. They could not possibly be proud for what he has become, it is only assumed that they are ashamed. He is like a dog to the white people, he pleases them and becomes more like them. The white people, they like him, they say we should all become like Ollie Young Bear because then we will prosper in life, as they believe that he shall. He is well liked among the white population, but to us, he is nobody special. If anything, he is less than normal.
