smoke siginals

Notes:
-Cutting hair is a sign of morning
-Everyone in the community knows everyone about everyone because it is a small group of people
-Indians believed that you must look tough to make sure the whites don't walk all over you
-Hair is every important to the Indians
-Oral stories are important
-Fred bread was traditional
-Indian land is its own nation, you need a passport to go into America
-Tomas loves Victors dad because he saved him, and he doesn't have a dad of his own.

Identity

-Hair is important
-White man is evilish
-Must look tough
-Must act tough

This film was a struggle between friends and a father and son. Victor was mean to Tomas because he felt his father loved him more. But this was not the case. Victor has a lot of hate but by the end of the film he is able to let go of all the pain of how his father treated his mother and himself and for leaving and was able to become happy again.

What do I feel about the quote at the end...

I feel it had lots of wisdom. Are you going to forgive your father (or anyone else for that matter) now, later, or never? Are you going to hold on to the hate of what they did, or didn't do? I think this quote is chanlleging us, to forgive to not hold on to the hate.


By Amber Leigh Lovell <3