...A character’s purpose in a story is to fight through challenges and solve problems created by the plot. In the descriptive story, Indian Horse, Richard Wagamese effectively creates the plot of escape in various ways using his amazing, but imaginary main character, Saul Indian Horse. By facing his challenges, Saul escapes from his early childhood life, the nightmares of the residential school, and the intolerable discrimination against his own race. Escape creates an opportunity to develop a different identity, thus permanently changing the character. Saul feels the need to escape from his difficult situations. To begin with, Saul and his grandmother must escape to a warmer climate to survive through the cold temperatures the winter season...
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...among the individual. Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese portrays exactly how one can lose culture due to the acts of violence. The acts of physical violence and psychological violence that Saul Indian Horse goes through allows the audience to make sense of the racism that has existed, and still can exist, in Canadian society; furthermore, this piece allows readers to understand the effect that racism has on one’s identity. The effects that the Canadian Residential School System’s brutality had on Saul, and even more so on Saul’s classmates, undoubtedly altered Saul and his identity. As soon as Saul arrives at St. Jerome’s Residential School, he is exposed to countless instances of traumatic situations. Saul recalled Lonnie being strapped by a Sister; this is the first of many counts of...
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