Early Indigenous Literatures

White flags and red anger wave

The intensity of the narrator's anger is here encapsulated through color. The white enveloping flag is a harsh suppression which bears down on her "like a dry fever" while the eyes of her competitors are a vast unwavering "ocean of eyes"--blue and bottomless as they stare at her. They attempt to capture her through the image of the "forlorn Indian girl," which acts as another space of battle for the now young adult. Throughout the tale, she has fought various skirmishes which all add up to this---her burning destruction of the images they attempt to entrap her in.

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