Dances with Wolves door Michael Blake

Gegevens
A 1a) Dances with wolves

b) Michael Blake

2a) The Story begins in the year 1863 because he keeps a diary and that begins with the date of 12 April 1863 so in the time of the Wild West. It isn’t sure when it ends the last words in his diary late summer 1863.


2b) the story takes almost a year because the last part of the story he don’t write in his diary but it becomes winter end it ends when the winter is almost over around the month of March.

Quotes: “April 12, 1863” , “The Winter is almost over”


2c) Fort Sedgwick, The Indian village. It’s a bit of a poor place because the Indians haven’t got any money and Lt. Dunbar has also not much money. Most of the Characters are Indian and Soldiers. So that’s also there job.


3. Lieutenant John J. Dunbar request to go to the western frontier. But he founds fort Sedgwick abandoned. But instead of abandon it too, he stays on his post. So he meets a wolf, he calls him two socks because he has two white legs. He also finds a curious Indian tribe. He makes friends with the tribe, in the tribe is a white woman. And because his friendship with the wolf they call him Dances With Wolves. At the end abandons his post for the Indian tribe and the white woman.


4abc) Lt. John J. Dunbar(later Dances with wolves)

He served in the army when there was the civil war. A Major send him then to fort Sedgewick. When he arrives there he notice that there isn’t anyone in the fort. But he stays at the fort and guards it and repairs the wall. He comes more in contact with the Indian tribe that living not far from the fort. He also falls in love with one of the Indians Stands with a fist. And marries her and becomes an Indian. It is a main character because he one of the two persons where you come to know the best of his feelings

Stands With a Fist

When she was young she’s adopted by the Comanche’s and she had before Dunbar came a husband. But he died in a fight against the Pawnee. She is very sad about that and try’s to commit suicide. Dunbar ride on his horse Cisco and sees that she trying to commit suicide and safes her and bring her back to the Indian camp. Later she and Dances with wolves married each other. I think she’s a main character because you’re also read much about her feelings and thoughts.



4b)Ten Bear

Kicking Bird

Wind In His Hair

Stone Calf


5a) that people can change

b) I think he wrote it so people can learn about Indian tribes as the Comanche

c) the white man think that they are better than the Indians

d) “The white man think that they are better than us”

B

1a) Lt. John Dunbar and stands with a fist

b) for JD because he accept the way of life of the Indians and don’t kill them, for stands with a fist I don’t have a specific reason but I think she has a good personality.

c) “John Dunbar accepted the Indians with the day more”



2 a) Sgt. Wilcox and Sgt. Murphy

b) because when Dances with wolves comes back to the fort, they treat him as a criminal

c) “A’re ya turnt Indian?”, “If you turnt Indian you will be prosecuted”

3 a+b) I didn’t really felt emotions, I never feel emotions when I read a book. But I will do something. I felt a bit disappointment because the book sometimes takes a lot time to explain something. I felt also happiness because dances with wolves slowly is accepted by the Indians although he’s a white men.

c) “Dances with wolves is feeling accepted with the Indian tribe”

B5. a) Actually not because I have a bit problems myself so I wasn’t very concentrated.

b) He didn’t made it clear to me for the reason see question A

c)I don’t think it’s important because, the book is to pleasure people not to learn them something, but that’s what I think.

B6 a) Where did you get the inspiration to write the book?

Did you named characters for special reasons?

What’s your favorite part of the book?


b) I went to a similar place to look how it’s like in a fort, I also went to a old Indian camp to look how they lived.


No I didn’t


That dances with wolves is accepted with the Indians

C

During the Civil War, Dunbar learns that his leg has to be amputated. Dunbar attempts suicide by riding a horse across fire line of guns of the two army’s between the opposing army’s. His action has the unexpected effect of rallying his comrades, who are storming the enemy’s positions and it will win the battle. After the battle, a general's surgeon saves Dunbar's leg. The commanding officer names Dunbar a hero, awards him Cisco, the horse who carried him in battle, and offers Dunbar his choice of posting. Dunbar requests a transfer to the western frontier. After meeting with Major Fambrough, he is paired with a man called Timmons who bring Dunbar to his post. After the departure of Timmons and Dunbar, Fambrough commits suicide with his own pistol.

Dunbar and Timmons arrive with new supplies at Fort Sedgwick, finding it abandoned except for a wolf that Dunbar calls Two Socks from the coloring of its legs. Dunbar sets in order the abandoned, Timmons, while returning to their point of departure, is ambushed by Pawnee Indians and scalped. Timmons' death and the suicide of the major who sent them there, nobody knows of Dunbar's assignment to the post. Dunbar discovers a Indian tribe neighbors when the tribe's medicine man, Kicking Bird is in the fort while Dunbar bathes out of sight, and thinks it’s abandoned, attempts to capture Cisco. After he is scared off by Dunbar he goes back to the Indian camp. He manages to establish with Kicking Bird, but the language barrier frustrates them. Upon one visit to the tribe's camp, he prevents the suicide of Stands with a Fist a white woman captured by the tribe as a child and recently widowed, who recovers English language and acts as a translator. Dunbar finds himself to the lifestyle and customs of the tribe, and becomes a hero among the Indians and accepted as a member of the tribe after he helps them locate a migrating buffalo’s, which they depend upon as a source of food, material, and clothing. Dunbar further helps defend the settlement against a Pawnee small army, providing the Indian warriors with rifles and ammunition from the fort. He eventually is accepted as a full member of the tribe, and is Dances with wolves because of his friendship with a wolf, after the scouts witnessed him with Two Socks. He falls in love with Stands with a Fist, a relationship forbidden by the recent death of her husband in battle. The two eventually win the approval of Kicking Bird, who acts as her father, and marry. Dunbar spends more time communing with the tribe than manning his post at Fort Sedgwick. Wind in His Hair, his last rival, acknowledges him as a friend. Dunbar's idyll ends when he tells Kicking Bird that white men will continue to invade their land. They tell Chief Ten Bears who decides it is time to move the village to its winter camp. Dunbar realizes that his journal, left behind at the deserted fort, He returns to retrieve it, but finds Fort Sedgwick full of reinforcing army troops, who kill Cisco and arrest Dunbar as a deserter. In an abusive interrogation, Dunbar explains to a lieutenant that he had a journal with orders about his posting to Fort Sedgwick. After Dunbar says in the Indian language that he is now Dances with Wolves, Army officers and troops set off to deliver Dunbar from Sedgwick to Fort Hayes for execution. When they saw Two Socks, they shoot at the wolf, which refuses to leave Dunbar alone out of loyalty. Two Socks is fatally wounded, and the convoy moves off. Soon after, Wind In His Hair and other warriors from the tribe attack the column of men, rescuing Dunbar. After returning to the winter camp, Dunbar realizes that as a deserter. Under the protests of his Indian friends, Dunbar decides that he must leave the tribe, saying he must speak to those who would listen. His wife decides to accompany him.