Quote of the Day...

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For this prompt, choose one of the quotes below and write a journal entry that explores how this quote ties in with a theme (or themes) of Michael Blake's Dances with Wolves.
 
The following are themes within the novel:

• Relationship between whites and Native Americans
• Native American culture and life
• Fear of the unknown
• Harmony within nature and the soul
• What it means to be truly heroic



“As much as he disliked Indians, Timmons knew virtually nothing of their ways.” 

 

“Wind In His Hair could have cared less about the white man.  But he cared greatly about what the white man represented.  It was every warrior’s most constant enemy.  The white man represented fear.” 

 

"She alone, among all the Comanches, knew that the white man was not a god."

 

"He knew it was an Indian, but he had never expected anything so wild, and the shock of it had stunned him surely as a blow to the head."

 

"Lieutenant Dunbar had fallen in love.  He had fallen in love with this wild, beautiful country and everything it contained."