Black Elk Speaks

Professor Alexander Religious Studies 12 February 4, 2010 disastrous moose Speaks Black red deer Speaks is about a Native Ameri mountain boy that has visions and these visions alleviate him with the religious aspects of live. He has these visions that tell him what to do and shows him the path to righteousness. These visions can also be seen as myths, which ar stories that try to condone something. Every culture has their own collection of myths. Black Elk Speaks is also a very tokenic book, because it has the use of many an(prenominal) objects or people that represent other things. In the American culture, as well as other cultures around the world, are also very symbolic. The American culture is very versatile in that there are many contrasting cultures that reach mixed and created the American culture. The American culture is not something that is considerably explained, because it is so mixed with many other cultures from around the world. At first there were American Indians and they brought along their tribes and myths and rituals. Then came the British and over time the Chinese because of the California gold rush. In time America was in habited with many different nationalities and ideas. These ideas were slowly but surely blended together.

As for example, when the British doweryd their meal with the Indians they were also sharing their culture and food. The supersede of food and other ideas brought the two distant worlds closer. The more of the essence(p) ideas are what does all this exchanging of food and ideas symbolize? A symbol is something such as an object, picture, written word, sound, or particular signalise that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention(Wikipedia, 1). The object used in Black Elk Speaks is a pipe, given to them by a young and very beautiful woman, which symbolizes trust and companionship. Now, my friend, let us smoke together so that there may be only good between us (Black Elk Speaks, 5). Black Elk and Neihardt have a smoke together to share their... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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