Zitkala Sa

Throughout reading the life of Zitkala Sa I thought she was trying to put many themes or overall point to the story. She talks about things she sees and the way the culture around her works. She talks about her mother and how she's quiet and grieves of her lost family members and is not very fond of the pale faces. The legends, showed much about their culture and how respect for people around her, who are basically like family and her mother. "this taught me to remember all I saw in a single glance. Often I told my mother my impressions without being questioned." (page 1010) In the Beadwork it shows how dependent they are for themselves. They don't go to stores and buy things, the things they had we're hand made and still as beautiful as ever. The children would get together and have parties. "we delighted in impersonating out own mothers." (page 1012) how much of a role model their mothers were, and passing on culture down to their kids. In the end she talks about how she wants to go with the pale faces to the east. Although her mother is very uneasy about this, she decisides to let her daughter go and with her curiousity was very excited. Along with her excitement came the disappointmen of how much she missed her mother after such a short time, but in the same time was doing this to not follow what her mother was doing, but to decide her own path for her life.