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The Snow Walker - Online Term Paper

The Snow Walker

is a collection of short storiess about the Arctic North and the Eskimo's that inhabit it. All of the stories in the book deal with surivival, whether it be survival from other Eskimo tribes, famen or the Eskimos worste neightmare, White people. The stories speak of the earliest life in the Arctic and the most contempary, sometimes its hard to notice the diffrence. Some of the stories deal with people who are threatened with extinction by white people or by the harshness of nature. At the same time as Mowat describes the hard ships of the Arctic North he also describes the beauty of the North and the human endurance and courage that withstand Earth's most fearful elements.
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are most fearful of. "Anger is something we fear since an angry man may do foolish and dangerous things. when I saw the anger in the man's face, I backed to the door" (138). Eskimo's are also very kind people. The take in a wondering stranger and treat him as their own. Some of the stories in the book tell of how a white man wonders into an Eskimo camp and ends up spending his whole life there. Eskimo's offer everything to white men, even their women. " The captain took the Eskimo girl as his wife, in the same manner the rest of his crew did the same" (70). This peaceful nature that the Eskimo's have is entirly diffrent from our nature, wich thrives of greed, money and power.
Although the Eskimo people are much more in peace with themselves and are nicer then us they would be considered uncivilized and primitive people that let nature decide their fate. Eskimo's would be considerd uncivilized because of their harsh eating habbits. Eskimo's dont understand the concept of ...

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Added: 7/9/2006 05:06:53 AM
Category: English
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