Motorcycle & Sweetgrass Journal

Journal 2 Motorcycle & Sweetgrass brought up two major remainders at the very end of the novel. The low conflict was based on a battle between conjuration and the racoons (Person vs. Nature) bum was in the forest having a talk with the raccoons and giving them food. The raccoons were all meet around the bushes, resemble in ready to have a difference of opinion with the Nanabush. The animals reproached fundament and he was so furious. The clash with the raccoons shows the mysterious hidden kin between them. ass even wanted them to disappear, he burnt the forest and the creatures began to go into the forest background. This conflict appeared the wicked and wild behaviour of the spiritual creature. The stand by conflict was the combat between john and Wayne. (Person vs. Person) A cousin of Virgil, Dakota, was scatty and Virgil believed she went to go out John for a talk. He was worried about Dakota since John was a Nanabush, she might fall into trouble. Soon or later, Virgi l and Wayne went to find John and to see if Dakota was with him or not.Meanwhile, they witnessed the fight of the raccoons and the Nanabush. Wayne was fearful that the Nanabush would hurt Dakota and everyone in the conjunction and he was dangerous, so, he decided to have a fight with the creature. Wayne cloud his motorcycle and they started their battle. He was injured so seriously, the Nanabush even threw a raccoon towards his face. Of course, John won the battle. This conflict was the intimately incredible part of the novel, the source portrayed every scene of their fight and it showed the courage and confidence of this character.The first significant quote of the novel was (1) Who is this man? Nobody in his family was settle down enough to know this guy like this, Virgil thought (p. 47). This was the situation when the uncontaminating man, John, came to the Otter Lake and visited Virgils grandmother, Lillian. John was white and he was different from everyone of them in the residential area. The source described the word, cool as the character of the white man. This compared the differences of the white community and the native community.The native community was more old fashioned and traditional, further the white community was more modern. This quote shows that the natives believed they had a lower placement by comparing the whites. The two communities couldnt be connected together. John was a symbol of the white man attacking the native community, it was effortful to believe that a white man could have a reason relationship with a native woman. This quote showed a theme of an interracial relationship. The second quote of this novel was (2)He was leap He was a blur of movement one minute, and almost still the next.At times John was silhouetted against the almost full moon. Virgil was mesmerized. This wasnt any type of dancing hed seen on television, or at powwows. It had an ancient, tribal quality, and yet at the same time, a modern, innovati ve style. And just about everything in between. (p. 130) In this quote, the writer described the unique character of John. He was not notwithstanding a normal white man, but a man dancing in a strange style. I believed the writer would like to recitation this as implying the readers that John was not a normal human, but a Nanabush.He used different abnormal behavior and actions of him as well as his style of dancing, ancient and modern, to let the readers predict the character of John. The writer illustrates the creepiness of John, on how perilous he would affect on Maggie and the whole Otter Lake community. The stand firm quote of this novel was (3) Dakota might be in trouble, thought Virgil. With John, since goose egg really knew his game, that was a strong possibility. Virgil weighed his options and decided Dakotas situation was the most important. (p. 85) When Virgil noticed Dakota, his cousin, was lost, he knew the most important thing for him to do was to find his cousin , not to go to school. Although skipping classes was not a good example, he knew that decision his cousin is more important. The writer depicted the matured attitude of Virgil. At the beginning of the story, he was a rebellious kid who always skipped classes, however, aft(prenominal) the arrival of John, he started to become a grown up child. I believed John is a symbol to Virgils maturity and this quote showed a theme of growth and self discovery.