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A Second Look At A Man Called Horse - Term Papers

A Second Look At A Man Called Horse

No matter what circumstances we are born into we all search for meaning and purpose in our lives. Sometimes, even people who are born into privileged circumstances and seem to have it all, still feel they need to search for an identity. They may not know what they are really searching for, but they feel a need to know who they are. I think this was the case with the man called Horse. This was also the case with his captor, his owner, and his wife.
We could compare the young white man, Horse, in this story to teenagers today. They have all the things their parents give them and often they are still not content. They test the value system they have grown up with. They often go ...

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couldn't read like he did. These men still had the necessary skills to be good at what they needed to be good at in the circumstances they lived in. Then the young man supposed that he could buy with money the kind of men he wanted to associate with but that didn't work out either. "He found them not friendly. They were apart from him and he was still alone." He was still not satisfied. I think people often try to buy or impress the people they want for friends with money or the fancy things money can buy. People who are impressed by those things alone don't usually end up being real friends.
The young man was captured by an Indian at a time when he was totally vulnerable, naked and stripped of everything that was of value to him. He was forced to be humble. He was even grateful for the dead man's moccasins. He decide that he would pretend to be a horse so that he could survive, so that he would not use his human emotions which would likely get him into trouble or ...

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Added: 5/23/2006 03:26:08 AM
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