Connections
Hi, Firstly, there was a lot of elements in Indian Horse that I recognized in the workshop that we did. The workshop represented pretty well the same feeling of isolation (I was one of the kids in the workshop) as the kids in Indian Horse must have felt when being torn from their parents. Also, there was a lot of silence in the workshop, as the kids we were apart from the others and we couldn't really talk, just like in the movie, where the kids were not allowed to speak the language, and if they did they would get punished by violence. Next, my novel and the movie had even more in common. A very sad theme was suicide. In the beginning of Indian Horse, a girl kills herself by stabbing herself with a knife. That's probably due to the oppression she was under, and she couldn't support it. A similar thing happens in close to the end of Kindred. Dana, after Rufus hit her for the first time, felt like he betrayed her and that their promise was broken. Dana then tries to kill h...