Must analyze:
1 quote
2 belong to what type (character growth, emotions, prediction shadow, environment, theme, object)
3 surface meaning
4 deep meaning
Select the following obvious features to write(each detail should have one of these):
1 rhetorical situation
2 connection、relation between details
3 influence to audience
4 appeal to emotion
Shadow of a nation.
This is dated back to 1930s during the period when there was a lot of sorrow and brutality. There was much war and horse stealing when the author was young. When that era gone people were happy and they had shifted to other better thinks like education and playing basketball for younger siblings who were still in school and junior colleges. On March twenty fourth 1983, boys went to Billing to participate in a state basketball tournament. They were twelve teenagers in total.
One of the teenagers was Everritte Walks, a boy who had naturally big hands and he had never known his biological father. The other teenager was Miles Fighter who is described in this context as astounding leaper. The boy had no dad and his mother had died recently of cirrhosis.
The other teenager was Jo Pretty Paint who is described as a brilliant long-range shooter, a child who is dedicated. Just a few minutes before a game at Miles City, his coach had found him alone, crouched, shuffling, and covering an invisible in the locker room shower. There was also another teen known as Darren Big Medicine who was an easy going center.
There was a lot of weeping after the people became happy. Many people lost their lives in different mysterious ways. Sobs for those who went missing from that glorious caravan, the owners of decaying body in the reservation dust, for Dale Spotted and Star were not Afraid and Darrell Hill and Tim Falls Down, Crow stars of the past dead of cirrhosis and suicide and knife-stabbing and a liquor-fogged car wreck. Sobs for the slow deaths took place every night a mile from Jonathan Takes Enemy's high school, where an entire squad of jump shooters and dunkers and power forwards from the past could be found huddling against the chill and sprawled upon the sidewalks outside the bars on the south side of Hardin.
Takes Enemy had sharp mind and very wonderful skills. The white coaches, instructors, and teachers kept on telling him that he had a smart mind and that was the reason why he was alive while some other individuals lost their lives. Oregon state and Arizona state had sent him letters wanting him too. Simpson would shake his hands and present him as the best athlete of 1984 presenting him a crystal cup for being the best athlete of the year. He was the hero of the town since every person bragged of him despite that he already had two kids. Children used to use his pictures on their chests and school girls used to write on the walls on how they were with Jonathan and some also had hope of bearing a kid with him.
On winter 1989 the custodian had forgot to switch off the bulb and two of five games were being played. Eighty three thousand people who are Indians had been stuck to alcoholism and poverty. Ninety five percent of that population are unemployed. Their children used to spend their days shooting at crooked rims and rotting backboards which were wooden. Young men belonging to them drove for days to arrive to Indian tournaments all across America and came home to strut the dusty streets in the sheeny jackets they had won there.
Community members viewed Jonathan as a very important member of the clan since he had a lot of fame. He planned for a party to thank the people from the society but he could not raise the amount to give all the people gifts and therefore he was assisted by well-wishers. His father was a mere medic and also his mother Dorothy could not do so. Rituals were being performed to him before he could go for any tournament. Later on his a girlfriend and they bore a baby girl. After four months the lady informed Jonathan of the second pregnancy and he was very uneasy. He had to take the responsibility and pause his studies despite the many scholarships he had. Later on he decided to go back to school.
There so many rhetoric questions used for example where there was a lot of weeping since so many people had died Mickey Kern asks on how many people have died of which nobody answers since there is no appropriate answer for that and the exact number is not known.
Foreshadowing is also evidenced in the context. The unemployment and drunkenness of Miles Fighter is foretold immediately he was introduced in the text. Everrete Walks dropping out of school and death of his mother due to cirrhosis is also foretold. The death of Pretty Paint is also foretold. He is said to go out drinking one evening, get into a car and careen over an embankments. He is also said that he will go to the grave with his photograph and his basketball uniform.
Theme of death is present in the text. During the error of weeping many people lose their lives including the important society members like mother to Everrete. Theme of education is also present. Jonathan gets scholarship to go and study abroad. There is also teachers and instructors who train students in both junior and senior school. The basketball team was travelling in a school bus. There is also theme of tradition such that before basketball players go to the field they have to undergo some rituals. Jonathan is forced to hold a celebration so that he can award the senior clan members.