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Writing Project 1: Voltaire in the Modern World Shivkumar Patel on Wed, Sep 29 2021, 3:29 PM

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Writing Project 1

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Part 1

1 THE DOWNFALL TALKS ABOUT THE SAD TALE OF DALLIN A MIDDLE-AGED

COMMUNITY LEADER OF THE SHADOW PEOPLE; AN ANCIENT COMMUNITY THAT

RESIDES IN THE AMAZON FOREST AND IS CUT OFF FROM CIVILIZATION. THIS TRIES TO

EDUCATE THE PEOPLE ABOUT POLITICS AND WHAT GOES AROUND THE POLITICAL

CIRCLES. THE THREE SECTIONS OF THE NOVELS NARRATE DALLIN’S STRUGGLES TO

GAIN STATUS AND PRESTIGE IN HIS COMMUNITY. DALLIN A SKILLED HUNTER TAKES

PRIDE IN HIS SKILLS, TITLES, AND WEALTH; HE FEARS FAILURE AND HATES ALL THAT IS

COWARDICE, WEAK, AND LAZY. FURTHERMORE, DALLIN IS DEEPLY EMBARRASSED AND

FRUSTRATED BY HIS OLDER BROTHER WHO IS LAZY, A WOMANIZER AND HAS DEBTS

ALL THROUGHOUT THE VILLAGE; DALLIN’S SUCCESS IS TIED TO THE FACT THAT HE

NEVER WANTED TO END UP LIKE HIS OLDER BROTHER. IN THE TALE, DALLIN IS

APPOINTED AS THE HEAD AND THE KEEPER OF THE COMMUNITY PRISON THAT HOLDS

PRISONERS OF WAR FROM RIVAL COMMUNITIES WITHIN THE AMAZON FOREST. AT AN

UNFORTUNATE INCIDENT, DALLIN ALLOWS PRISONERS TO ESCAPE, WHICH LEADS TO

HIS BANISHMENT FROM THE COMMUNITY. AFTER SEVEN YEARS, DALLIN RETURNS TO A

COMMUNITY PLAGUED BY WHITE MISSIONARIES AND A COLONIAL GOVERNMENT. IN AN

ATTEMPT TO RESIST THE MISSIONARIES, DALLIN AND OTHER COMMUNITY MEMBERS

BURN DOWN THE NEWLY CONSTRUCTED COMMUNITY CHURCH; NONETHELESS, DALLIN

AND HIS FRIENDS ARE HUMILIATED AND JAILED. IN HIS LAST DITCH EFFORT TO SHOW

HIS BRAVERY AND WIN BACK ADMIRATION, DALLIN KILLS A COLONIAL MESSENGER,

BUT THE COMMUNITY FAILS TO RALLY BEHIND HIM. FINALLY, DALLIN HANGS HIMSELF

AN ACT THAT VIOLATES THE CULTURE OF THE SHADOW PEOPLE AND PREVENTS HIM

FROM GETTING A PROPER FUNERAL.

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THE INTRODUCTORY PART OF THE TALE DESCRIBES THE CHILDHOOD OF DALLIN AND

HIS CONCERTED EFFORT TO DISTANCE HIMSELF FROM THE EXAMPLE OF HIS

IMPRUDENT AND LAZY ELDER BROTHER AND TO MAKE HIMSELF AN ADMIRED AND

SUCCESSFUL MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY. THE BEAUTY ABOUT THE SHADOW

PEOPLE’S CULTURE IS THAT IT ALLOWS DALLIN TO ELEVATE HIMSELF TO THE PINNACLE

OF SOCIETY THROUGH ACTS OF BRAVERY, COURAGE, STRENGTH, AND ENDURANCE.

Dallin’s early years were full of triumph and

1 SUCCESS AS A BRAVE HUNTER AND WARRIOR AND WAS COMPLIMENTED BY HIS GOOD

FARMING SKILLS, AND WITH TIME, HE IS ABLE TO MARRY AND SUPPORT THREE WIVES

AND SEVERAL CHILDREN. THE SHADOW PEOPLE SHOW THEIR RESPECT FOR DALLIN BY

NAMING HIM THE HEAD AND KEEPER OF THE COMMUNITY PRISON, WHERE ALL THE

PRISONERS OF WAR CAUGHT FROM THE RIVAL COMMUNITIES ARE KEPT. THIS BRINGS

OUT HIS CHARACTER TO THE ATTENTION OF THE READERS MAKING THEM HAVE PRE-

JUDGMENT OF HIS FUTURE ACTIONS. THE TALE THEN GIVES A CLEAR DEMONSTRATION

OF DALLIN’S ABILITY WHEN HE TRIUMPH AND ACHIEVES SUCCESS. THIS HONOR

PROPELS DALLIN TO THE LIMELIGHT AND MARKS THE HIGH POINT IN HIS STATUS IN

THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE AFTER THAT THE BRAVERY AND SINGLE MINDEDNESS THAT

HELPED HIM TO SUCCEED WOULD EVENTUALLY RESULT IN HIS DOWNFALL. DALLIN IS

CONTROLLED BY AN OBSESSIVE FEAR OF FAILURE, A REACTION TO THE CONDITION OF

HIS BROTHER. FURTHERMORE, THIS SELF-IMPOSED NECESSITY TO COMPENSATE

MAKES DALLIN AN ANGRY INDIVIDUAL WHOSE VIOLENCE TOWARDS THE PRISONERS

AND HIS INDEPENDENCE UNDERCUTS HIS REPUTATION IN THE COMMUNITY. IN ONE

OCCASION, DALLIN DISTURBS THE WHOLE COMMUNITY BY BRUTALLY BEATING HIS

YOUNGEST WIFE NEARLY TO THE POINT OF DEATH WHILE IN ANOTHER TRAGIC

INSTANCE DALLIN’S FEAR OF APPEARING WEAK LEADS HIM TO MERCILESSLY PUNISH A

PRISONER TO DEATH FOR A MINOR OFFENCE. WHEN DALLIN ACCIDENTLY ALLOWS

SEVERAL PRISONERS TO ESCAPE, HIS COMMUNITY MEMBERS BRAND HIM A TRAITOR,

INVADE AND DESTROY HIS COMPOUND AND EXILE HIM TO A DISTANT VILLAGE FOR

SEVEN YEARS. THIS REVEALS HOW THE SOCIETY CAN SOMETIMES TURN AWAY FROM

ONE OF THEIR OWN.

THE SECOND PART OF THE TALE TALKS ABOUT DALLIN’S EXILE, A COMPLEX TIME IN

WHICH HE MUST REBUILD HIS LIFE; DALLIN WAS BANISHED TO THE DISTANT VILLAGE

WHERE HIS MOTHER’S PEOPLE ORIGINATE. DURING HIS STAY IN THIS VILLAGE

DALLIN’S RELATIVES REMIND HIM OF THE UNIVERSALITY OF SUFFERING, THE

LIMITATION OF SUCCESS AND THE CLAN’S IMPORTANCE AS A SOURCE OF COMFORT.

DALLIN’S INCREASING SENSE OF COMMUNITY AND HIS FORGETFUL ENCOUNTERS WITH

CHRISTIANITY IN THE DISTANT VILLAGE MAKES HIM AN

avid defender of the shadow culture. 1 AFTER THE END OF HIS EXILE, DALLIN WHO EARLIER

ON HAD BEEN FAMOUS FOR HIS SELF-INTEREST LEARNS TO APPRECIATE THE BONDS OF

FAMILY AND THE COMFORT DERIVED FROM SPEAKING WITH ONE VOICE.

NONETHELESS, THIS NEWFOUND INTEREST OF AWARENESS AND TOGETHERNESS

COMES AT A TIME WHEN THE UNITY OF THE CULTURE OF THE SHADOW PEOPLE HAS

ALREADY STARTED BREAKING DOWN MORE ESPECIALLY THROUGH THE INFLUENCE OF

COLONIAL RULE.

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IN THE LAST PART OF THE NOVEL, THE TALE FOCUSES ON DALLIN’S RETURN TO HIS

VILLAGE THAT HAS BEEN DRASTICALLY CHANGED BY THE ACTIVE INITIATIVES OF THE

MISSIONARIES. THE NEWFOUND RELIGION HAS BROUGHT A RIFT BETWEEN DIFFERENT

FACTIONS OF THE COMMUNITY, AND DALLIN SENSES THAT THIS DIVIDE THREATENS

THE BOND HE HAS WITH FAMILY, HIS SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE AFTER DEATH, AND HIS

CULTURE. WHEN FRED, DALLIN’S FIRST-BORN SON CONVERTS TO CHRISTIANITY, HE

OPENLY REPUDIATES HIS CLAN MEMBERS ESPECIALLY HIS FATHER, STRANGELY

PARALLELING DALLIN’S REJECTION OF HIS ELDER BROTHER. FURTHERMORE, WHEN

BRAIN, DALLIN’S FRIEND ALSO CONVERTS TO CHRISTIANITY, EXPOSES A PRIEST IN

PUBLIC, WHICH KILLED THE ANCESTRAL SPIRIT IN THE VILLAGE ALTAR AND

DISTURBED THE COMMUNITY’S RELIGION, DALLIN LEADS AN ATTACK THAT BURNS

DOWN BRAIN’S COMPOUND AND THE COMMUNITY’S CHURCH. AFTER THE INCIDENT,

THE COLONIAL AUTHORITIES BRIEFLY DETAIN DALLIN AND SEVEN OTHER ELDERS AS

PUNISHMENT; NONETHELESS, DALLIN IS HUMILIATED BECAUSE THE VILLAGE DOES

NOT RALLY BEHIND HIM IN SUPPORT. DALLIN EVENTUALLY REALIZES THAT HE ALONE

IS REFUSING THE ACCOMMODATION OF THE MISSIONARIES AND THAT THE VILLAGE

WILL NOT GO TO WAR AGAINST THEM, SO IN A FINAL DEFIANT AND DESPERATE ACT, HE

KILLS ON OF THE MISSIONARIES AND THEN HANGS HIMSELF.

Part 2

1 IN THE TALE, MAJOR PURPOSE WAS TO BRING TO THE LIGHT A DYNAMIC AND

COMPLEX SOCIETY TO AN AUDIENCE THAT THINK THAT AMAZONIAN COMMUNITIES AS

SIMPLE, PRIMITIVE, AND BACKWARD. MOST WESTERN WRITERS OF THIS SOCIETY HAVE

PRESENTED SUCH COMMUNITIES AS A DARK PLACE THAT IS OCCUPIED BY INDIVIDUALS

WITH PRIMITIVE AND IMPENETRABLE MINDS; THIS REDUCTIONIST PORTRAYAL IS VERY

WRONG AND OFTEN RACIST. MOST WESTERN WRITERS WHO WRITE ABOUT CLOSED

COMMUNITIES CREATE STEREOTYPICAL AND FLAT CHARACTERS, NONETHELESS, IN THE

TALE, MOST OF THE SHADOW PEOPLE ARE HIGHLY MOTIVATED, AND MANY OF THEM

ARE OPEN TO NEW IDEAS.

NONETHELESS, THE AIM OF THE TALE IS NOT TO PRESENT THE SHADOW PEOPLE’S

CULTURE AS IDYLLIC AND FAULTLESS BUT MANY WESTERN WRITERS THAT WROTE ON

COLONIALISM ESPECIALLY ON AFRICA WERE AGAINST IMPERIALISM BUT NONETHELESS

WERE ROMANTIC TO A GREAT MEASURE IN THEIR PORTRAYAL OF NOBLE SAVAGES,

ANIMALISTIC AND PRIMITIVE YET INNOCENT AND UNCORRUPTED. NONETHELESS, THE

OPPOSITION TO IMPERIALISM THAT MANY WESTERN WRITERS VOICE ON THE PREMISE

THAT AN ADVANCED AND SOPHISTICATED WESTERN SOCIETY DESTROYS AND

CORRUPTS THE NON-WESTERN WORLD. ADDITIONALLY, VOLTAIRE WOULD REGARD

THIS NOTION AS AN UNACCEPTABLE MYTH AND AN ARGUMENT WITHOUT A BASIS.

ALTHOUGH IN THE TALE THE SHADOW PEOPLE’S INDIGENOUS CULTURE WOULD BE

DESTROYED, THE CULTURE WAS NOT AN IDYLLIC HAVEN, EVEN WITHOUT THE COMING

OF THE WHITE COLONIALIST. THE TALE SEEMS TO HAVE AN AFTER EFFECT ON A

PERSON’S PERCEPTION, THE WAY OF THINKING AND VIEW ABOUT THE WORLD. IN

CONTRARY TO WHAT THE READERS HAD BEEN INTRODUCED TO, THERE IS A TWIST IN

THE CHRONOLOGICAL EVENTS OF HIS LIFE. This also

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1 BRINGS OUT THE FACT THAT LIFE HAS DIFFERENT LINES OF STORY AND CAN CHANGE

AT ANY TIME. THIS IS BECAUSE ITS MAIN CONCERN IS ABOUT THE SOCIETY AND THE

WELL BEING OF THE MEMBERS.

References

Cooksey, T. L. (2006). Masterpieces of philosophical literature. Westport (Conn. Greenwood

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FURTHERMORE, DALLIN IS DEEPLY EMBARRASSED AND FRUSTRATED BY HIS OLDER BROTHER WHO IS LAZY, A WOMANIZER AND HAS DEBTS ALL THROUGHOUT THE VILLAGE

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx FINALLY, DALLIN HANGS HIMSELF AN ACT THAT VIOLATES THE CULTURE OF THE SHADOW PEOPLE AND PREVENTS HIM FROM GETTING A PROPER FUNERAL

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx THE INTRODUCTORY PART OF THE TALE DESCRIBES THE CHILDHOOD OF DALLIN AND HIS CONCERTED EFFORT TO DISTANCE HIMSELF FROM THE EXAMPLE OF HIS IMPRUDENT AND LAZY ELDER BROTHER AND TO MAKE HIMSELF AN ADMIRED AND SUCCESSFUL MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx THE BEAUTY ABOUT THE SHADOW PEOPLE’S CULTURE IS THAT IT ALLOWS DALLIN TO ELEVATE HIMSELF TO THE PINNACLE OF SOCIETY THROUGH ACTS OF BRAVERY, COURAGE, STRENGTH, AND ENDURANCE

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx SUCCESS AS A BRAVE HUNTER AND WARRIOR AND WAS COMPLIMENTED BY HIS GOOD FARMING SKILLS, AND WITH TIME, HE IS ABLE TO MARRY AND SUPPORT THREE WIVES AND SEVERAL CHILDREN

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx THE SHADOW PEOPLE SHOW THEIR RESPECT FOR DALLIN BY NAMING HIM THE HEAD AND KEEPER OF THE COMMUNITY PRISON, WHERE ALL THE PRISONERS OF WAR CAUGHT FROM THE RIVAL COMMUNITIES ARE KEPT

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx THIS BRINGS OUT HIS CHARACTER TO THE ATTENTION OF THE READERS MAKING THEM HAVE PRE-JUDGMENT OF HIS FUTURE ACTIONS

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx THE TALE THEN GIVES A CLEAR DEMONSTRATION OF DALLIN’S ABILITY WHEN HE TRIUMPH AND ACHIEVES SUCCESS

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx THIS HONOR PROPELS DALLIN TO THE LIMELIGHT AND MARKS THE HIGH POINT IN HIS STATUS IN THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE AFTER THAT THE BRAVERY AND SINGLE MINDEDNESS THAT HELPED HIM TO SUCCEED WOULD EVENTUALLY RESULT IN HIS DOWNFALL

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DALLIN IS CONTROLLED BY AN OBSESSIVE FEAR OF FAILURE, A REACTION TO THE CONDITION OF HIS BROTHER

Dallin is controlled by an obsessive fear of failure, a reaction to the condition of his brother

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx FURTHERMORE, THIS SELF-IMPOSED NECESSITY TO COMPENSATE MAKES DALLIN AN ANGRY INDIVIDUAL WHOSE VIOLENCE TOWARDS THE PRISONERS AND HIS INDEPENDENCE UNDERCUTS HIS REPUTATION IN THE COMMUNITY

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx IN ONE OCCASION, DALLIN DISTURBS THE WHOLE COMMUNITY BY BRUTALLY BEATING HIS YOUNGEST WIFE NEARLY TO THE POINT OF DEATH WHILE IN ANOTHER TRAGIC INSTANCE DALLIN’S FEAR OF APPEARING WEAK LEADS HIM TO MERCILESSLY PUNISH A PRISONER TO DEATH FOR A MINOR OFFENCE

Source - Another student's paper In one occasion, Dallin disturbs the whole community by brutally beating his youngest wife nearly to the point of death while in another tragic instance Dallin’s fear of appearing weak leads him to mercilessly punish a prisoner to death for a minor offence

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx WHEN DALLIN ACCIDENTLY ALLOWS SEVERAL PRISONERS TO ESCAPE, HIS COMMUNITY MEMBERS BRAND HIM A TRAITOR, INVADE AND DESTROY HIS COMPOUND AND EXILE HIM TO A DISTANT VILLAGE FOR SEVEN YEARS

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx THE SECOND PART OF THE TALE TALKS ABOUT DALLIN’S EXILE, A COMPLEX TIME IN WHICH HE MUST REBUILD HIS LIFE

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx DURING HIS STAY IN THIS VILLAGE DALLIN’S RELATIVES REMIND HIM OF THE UNIVERSALITY OF SUFFERING, THE LIMITATION OF SUCCESS AND THE CLAN’S IMPORTANCE AS A SOURCE OF COMFORT

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DALLIN’S INCREASING SENSE OF COMMUNITY AND HIS FORGETFUL ENCOUNTERS WITH CHRISTIANITY IN THE DISTANT VILLAGE MAKES HIM AN

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx NONETHELESS, THIS NEWFOUND INTEREST OF AWARENESS AND TOGETHERNESS COMES AT A TIME WHEN THE UNITY OF THE CULTURE OF THE SHADOW PEOPLE HAS ALREADY STARTED BREAKING DOWN MORE ESPECIALLY THROUGH THE INFLUENCE OF COLONIAL RULE

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx IN THE LAST PART OF THE NOVEL, THE TALE FOCUSES ON DALLIN’S RETURN TO HIS VILLAGE THAT HAS BEEN DRASTICALLY CHANGED BY THE ACTIVE INITIATIVES OF THE MISSIONARIES

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx THE NEWFOUND RELIGION HAS BROUGHT A RIFT BETWEEN DIFFERENT FACTIONS OF THE COMMUNITY, AND DALLIN SENSES THAT THIS DIVIDE THREATENS THE BOND HE HAS WITH FAMILY, HIS SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE AFTER DEATH, AND HIS CULTURE

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx WHEN FRED, DALLIN’S FIRST-BORN SON CONVERTS TO CHRISTIANITY, HE OPENLY REPUDIATES HIS CLAN MEMBERS ESPECIALLY HIS FATHER, STRANGELY PARALLELING DALLIN’S REJECTION OF HIS ELDER BROTHER

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx FURTHERMORE, WHEN BRAIN, DALLIN’S FRIEND ALSO CONVERTS TO CHRISTIANITY, EXPOSES A PRIEST IN PUBLIC, WHICH KILLED THE ANCESTRAL SPIRIT IN THE VILLAGE ALTAR AND DISTURBED THE COMMUNITY’S RELIGION, DALLIN LEADS AN ATTACK THAT BURNS DOWN BRAIN’S COMPOUND AND THE COMMUNITY’S CHURCH

Source - Another student's paper Furthermore, when brain, Dallin’s friend also converts to Christianity, exposes a priest in public, which killed the ancestral spirit in the village altar and disturbed the community’s religion, Dallin leads an attack that burns down brain’s compound and the community’s church

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx AFTER THE INCIDENT, THE COLONIAL AUTHORITIES BRIEFLY DETAIN DALLIN AND SEVEN OTHER ELDERS AS PUNISHMENT

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx NONETHELESS, DALLIN IS HUMILIATED BECAUSE THE VILLAGE DOES NOT RALLY BEHIND HIM IN SUPPORT

Source - Another student's paper nonetheless, Dallin is humiliated because the village does not rally behind him in support

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx DALLIN EVENTUALLY REALIZES THAT HE ALONE IS REFUSING THE ACCOMMODATION OF THE MISSIONARIES AND THAT THE VILLAGE WILL NOT GO TO WAR AGAINST THEM, SO IN A FINAL DEFIANT AND DESPERATE ACT, HE KILLS ON OF THE MISSIONARIES AND THEN HANGS HIMSELF

Source - Another student's paper Dallin eventually realizes that he alone is refusing the accommodation of the missionaries and that the village will not go to war against them, so in a final defiant and desperate act, he kills on of the missionaries and then hangs himself

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx IN THE TALE, MAJOR PURPOSE WAS TO BRING TO THE LIGHT A DYNAMIC AND COMPLEX SOCIETY TO AN AUDIENCE THAT THINK THAT AMAZONIAN COMMUNITIES AS SIMPLE, PRIMITIVE, AND BACKWARD

Source - Another student's paper In the tale, major purpose was to bring to the light a dynamic and complex society to an audience that think that Amazonian communities as simple, primitive, and backward

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx MOST WESTERN WRITERS OF THIS SOCIETY HAVE PRESENTED SUCH COMMUNITIES AS A DARK PLACE THAT IS OCCUPIED BY INDIVIDUALS WITH PRIMITIVE AND IMPENETRABLE MINDS

Source - Another student's paper Most western writers of this society have presented such communities as a dark place that is occupied by individuals with primitive and impenetrable minds

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx THIS REDUCTIONIST PORTRAYAL IS VERY WRONG AND OFTEN RACIST

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx MOST WESTERN WRITERS WHO WRITE ABOUT CLOSED COMMUNITIES CREATE STEREOTYPICAL AND FLAT CHARACTERS, NONETHELESS, IN THE TALE, MOST OF THE SHADOW PEOPLE ARE HIGHLY MOTIVATED, AND MANY OF THEM ARE OPEN TO NEW IDEAS

Source - Another student's paper Most western writers who write about closed communities create stereotypical and flat characters, nonetheless, in the tale, most of the shadow people are highly motivated, and many of them are open to new ideas

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx NONETHELESS, THE AIM OF THE TALE IS NOT TO PRESENT THE SHADOW PEOPLE’S CULTURE AS IDYLLIC AND FAULTLESS BUT MANY WESTERN WRITERS THAT WROTE ON COLONIALISM ESPECIALLY ON AFRICA WERE AGAINST IMPERIALISM BUT NONETHELESS WERE ROMANTIC TO A GREAT MEASURE IN THEIR PORTRAYAL OF NOBLE SAVAGES, ANIMALISTIC AND PRIMITIVE YET INNOCENT AND UNCORRUPTED

Source - Another student's paper Nonetheless, the aim of the tale is not to present the shadow people’s culture as idyllic and faultless but many western writers that wrote on colonialism especially on Africa were against imperialism but nonetheless were romantic to a great measure in their portrayal of noble savages, animalistic and primitive yet innocent and uncorrupted

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NONETHELESS, THE OPPOSITION TO IMPERIALISM THAT MANY WESTERN WRITERS VOICE ON THE PREMISE THAT AN ADVANCED AND SOPHISTICATED WESTERN SOCIETY DESTROYS AND CORRUPTS THE NON-WESTERN WORLD

Nonetheless, the opposition to imperialism that many western writers voice on the premise that an advanced and sophisticated western society destroys and corrupts the non-western world

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx ADDITIONALLY, VOLTAIRE WOULD REGARD THIS NOTION AS AN UNACCEPTABLE MYTH AND AN ARGUMENT WITHOUT A BASIS

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx ALTHOUGH IN THE TALE THE SHADOW PEOPLE’S INDIGENOUS CULTURE WOULD BE DESTROYED, THE CULTURE WAS NOT AN IDYLLIC HAVEN, EVEN WITHOUT THE COMING OF THE WHITE COLONIALIST

Source - Another student's paper Although in the tale the shadow people’s indigenous culture would be destroyed, the culture was not an idyllic haven, even without the coming of the white colonialist

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx THE TALE SEEMS TO HAVE AN AFTER EFFECT ON A PERSON’S PERCEPTION, THE WAY OF THINKING AND VIEW ABOUT THE WORLD

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx IN CONTRARY TO WHAT THE READERS HAD BEEN INTRODUCED TO, THERE IS A TWIST IN THE CHRONOLOGICAL EVENTS OF HIS LIFE

Source - Another student's paper In contrary to what the readers had been introduced to, there is a twist in the chronological events of his life

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx BRINGS OUT THE FACT THAT LIFE HAS DIFFERENT LINES OF STORY AND CAN CHANGE AT ANY TIME

Source - Another student's paper This also brings out the fact that life has different lines of story and can change at any time

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Uploaded - WritingAssignment.docx THIS IS BECAUSE ITS MAIN CONCERN IS ABOUT THE SOCIETY AND THE WELL BEING OF THE MEMBERS

Source - Another student's paper This is because its main concern is about the society and the well being of the members