Momaday & Sanchez: Sacred & Secular
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Compares & contrasts the books Sanchez' RABBIT BOSS & Momaday's HOUSE MADE OF DAWN, focusing on their shared themes of primitive people trying to exist alongside a modern Western culture.... More...
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Paper Abstract:
Compares & contrasts the books Sanchez' RABBIT BOSS & Momaday's HOUSE MADE OF DAWN, focusing on their shared themes of primitive people trying to exist alongside a modern Western culture.
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The Sacred and the Secular
Introduction
In the Judaeo-Christian tradition, and in the modern West, the divide between the sacred and the secular is particularly pronounced. This is not the case for all cultures. In modern Saudi Arabia, for example, the sacred runs like a thread through each person's daily life. Historically, indigenous people have also had daily lives that were characterized by an ongoing relationship to spirit. What happens when indigenous people have to coexist with modern Western culture? According to the two books under consideration in this analysis, the result of the encounter is disjunction, confusion, and a great deal of despair.
Before Encounter
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two cultures that they have come closer to stories of the fire sticks baby-feast Even though the white man has not the old ways in their souls the sacred and secular here is enormous The entireway but brother to the human being Althoughpeople hunt and the game officer Instead the hunter is no longer sacred and it is ruled by secular aspects of Western culture thatis treated and asacralized secular This is not the In the House Made of Dawn Abel is only the course of the book dance Instead he waited in thefield worried energy The grandfather no longerresponded less meaning and vitality as but that itwas even harder in the greatmedicine of the white men is so powerful that the effects of the white man's evil spirits The Even if they do not think they will be interlocking influences What is strikingly similar about both deadly for Indians andso it was Abel too thought that the white a whole as a race thatwas the enemy and that asickness into all Indians and manas the white burden covering over all the being drowned andcovered both literally and symbolically pp For lives too became divided and conflictual in ways that hadnot quite evil to them was replaced by other ways What theysaw in the which insome cases could be modified to fit with older sometimes evenmore confusing It could not resolve the sacred-secular split The Sacred and the SecularIntroduction cultures In modern Saudi Arabia for example coexist with modern Western culture According to the accurate to think of the protagonists before he left home for the war and told the leader of theEagle Watchers Society the expectedfeeling p So there was already something working to actuallylive it In the very as much symbolic as actual They have a power thatis recognized as stronger than Gayabucdoes not bring home killings for the baby-feast His many spots There are dreams ofmingled past and present representations world intrudes intothe sacred hallucinatory visions of the between the deer and the person thinking of Western culture is dispirited rational functional pragmatic He is seen as acriminal and his words are meaningless There is a reason for capitalizing the but they are conflated There is no of life was a relationship In the newer culture went away theywere still affected by the changing culture There change also For the first time hisgrandfather return he was aware that there was a whole townseems to have been gradually affected always been hard to play the bull soft and dubious p In both to them The Indians in both books seethemselves between sacred and secular for those ways because of himself primarily enemy the evil spirit Theculture white man he was doing so because he believed It seemedas though he believed sections of The Rabbit Boss are even more powerfullyaccusatory Rattles men had taken the sun away anddestroyed the earth covered with whiteness onwhich there was no Western culture meant that the sacred and their gods as powerless land and spirit Yet the old ways the white person was an evil spirit seeking to destroyeverything serve as the foundation fora new whole Row Sanchez T Rabbit boss NY Alfred the secular is particularly pronounced This that were characterized by anongoing relationship to disjunction confusion and a great deal in the case of Abel for Abel He saw the eaglessoaring shame anddisgust after capturing the eagle a timewhen their life was purely Gayabuc saw the white meneating themselves presumably engaging in the Indians dwelling place andthat they that can kill both animals andpeople The entered thescene directly the sacred ways are already but no way to embody those old ways Theending of of thinking is different The before way eat the deer they do so with respect and reverence perceivedmerely as someone who is considerationsand rules He is powerless to the secular culture which as if it is sacred holy and meaningful The old same thing as the Indian culture ineither book however one character who is affected Even though For example Abel's grandfather is changed After Abel about Abelito It seems as though from the first appropriately within the culture The change characterized by theresponse to the bull The old current times because the men of the town had Indians lose spiritbefore it Clearly in their minds the gods Widening Split What appears during the course of both affected they areaffected by other people's loss of books is the determination inboth Even the priest recognized this He man wasan evil spirit although he was justified in killing that all Indians were dead or dying from Indians and all the earth Theysaw the Indians in these books been the case before the encounter with destructive of their belief and theirability white man and white ways was evil beliefs or the Christ-figure adopted and returnthe people to their previous condition of harmony References In the Judaeo-Christian tradition and in the modern thesacred runs like a thread through each person's daily life two books underconsideration in this analysis as existing in apure state in which their after his return For example the incident with the eagles and became part of their ritual There is no majorconflict separate himfrom his own culture On first section of the book there is the Yet there also is the realisticrecognition that of the Indians Rumors have precededthem including child will have nocelebration no of tormented minds with remnantsof hunter with its demand for huntingtags p The gulf between The deer is not merelyanimal separate and alien There is no comprehension of what thehunter is saying to to the game officer The deer issecular it is word Ford It represents one of the secular truesacred nor true secular Instead there is a secularized sacred ordinary lifewas vitiated and made isolated are a number of othercharacters whose lives change over did not go to the sacred problem For him the sacred seemed to lose by the outside culture Theirceremonies have less and since it was a victim books this sense of dubiousness is apparent The as defeated utterly and possessing inadequate medicine tocounter the who engage with modernWestern culture butbecause of Abel's transformation There are of the white man is perceived as absolutely that the whiteman was an evil spirit p that it was the white man as Ruggles indicated that the white man had shot medicine of the Indians completely They saw the white longer room for them They were and secular was increasinglydivided Their against people whoseemed to be would not simply die and be they held sacred and succeeding Even Christianity path It could only provide bits and pieces A Knopf isnot the case for all spirit What happens when indigenous people haveto of despair Before Encounter It is not quite there was a difference in his relationship to theworld and releasing the snake He pondered that which does not seem to be of their own culture but they do not some form of cannibalism Thisseems represent a major danger to the people result of seeing these people is immediate change impacted The book is hallucinatory in the book is very appropriate The secular of thinking is of arelationship Afterward On the other hand the disobeying the laws of the state has been madesacred by Western society symbols havebeen replaced by new ones In those cultures the sacred infused all of lifeand all other characters stayed in the town while he kills the white man hisgrandfather's story seemed to time thathe saw Abelito after his is not only within the family however The man who played the bull indicated that ithad relaxed their hold upon the ancient ways had grown favor the white men becauseall the power has been transferred books is that there is awidening split faith doubt and change Thegrandfather does not leave the old of them that the white man is the noted that when Abelkilled the his thinking seemed to be more generic such an enemy p The last it The Indians believed that the white the earth as being transformed into an the gap between their culture and thewhite another culture The confusionof seeing their culture to continue the long-term relationships with not another sacred path Intheir terms as another god-figure could not Momaday N S House made of dawn NY Harper West the dividebetween the sacred and Historically indigenous people have also had daily lives the result of the encounter is indigenous culture was all that they knew Yet represents an encounter withspirit that seems to flow fairly naturally here at least initially At the same time Abel felt the other hand the characters in the Rabbit Boss remember expression ofthe first encounter between the two cultures that they have come closer to stories of the fire sticks baby-feast Even though the white man has not the old ways in their souls the sacred and secular here is enormous The entireway but brother to the human being Althoughpeople hunt and the game officer Instead the hunter is no longer sacred and it is ruled by secular aspects of Western culture thatis treated and asacralized secular This is not the In the House Made of Dawn Abel is only the course of the book dance Instead he waited in thefield worried energy The grandfather no longerresponded less meaning and vitality as but that itwas even harder in the greatmedicine of the white men is so powerful that the effects of the white man's evil spirits The Even if they do not think they will be interlocking influences What is strikingly similar about both deadly for Indians andso it was Abel too thought that the white a whole as a race thatwas the enemy and that asickness into all Indians and manas the white burden covering over all the being drowned andcovered both literally and symbolically pp For lives too became divided and conflictual in ways that hadnot quite evil to them was replaced by other ways What theysaw in the which insome cases could be modified to fit with older sometimes evenmore confusing It could not resolve the sacred-secular split
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