Dance With Wolf

There is a saying that the history Is written by the winner. The second one was, somewhat more personal thought. I was relating myself to prat Dunbar, and the Sioux. I was too, a foreigner In foreign country. Alien from their culture and customs, I too had to adjust into their society, and become one of them. And that was not easy. Still today, numerous people from different background live together, but at the same time form their accept community. Difference In culture, language, and customs creates confusion In ones realization of indistinguishability.Before moving on to the first question, I would comparable to discuss about White Mans Burden. White men thought they had a rush to converge all the savages to Christian beliefs, and to civilize them. As mentioned In another take away we watched during the class, Pocahontas, that movie raises question on who is savage? . A horizontal surface would like to focus on before I begin my thoughts on the movie, I would like to view d ifferent points of views. The question of virtuous comes from what point you look at. look at different side, my enemy canful become an angel to another person.The first question, which side is virtuous? Once, a famous comedian, George Carline said in his move up comedy show, we be praying to the god to defeat our enemies, and they are praying to the god to defeat their enemies, so somebodys goanna get bucked, mint it? . Most people when they see this movie testament think how cruel white men are. They ravaged lands that Indians lived in, butchered their buffalos, and killed Indians without questioning their human beings nature, or what kind of person they are. In the other hand, Indians, to the white man, are on the dot obstacles In the way to their plan.People usually call people in their way to the goal, enemies. The question of who is righteous? can be vague according to which side of point of view you look from. What was impressive of the movie was the scene of the chil dhood of vacate with Fist. She was born white, and their parents Just wanted to protect her. However, the Native Americans killed their parents, without questioning, In a barbarian manner. Who is evil then? Her parents who failed in the task of protecting her family by threatening 1 OFF perhaps what the director wanted to show was the brutality of human being itself.I see form of art as expression of human being. Human being itself is so complex, that there are so umpteen different types of people, characteristics, culture, and modes of behavior. I think what the director wanted to show was, how people think other people are identical to them. If they do not take note similarity between them, they turn into hostile behaviors. Sioux did, at the first time with lavatory Dunbar. So as John Dunbar, did not trust in them when they unploughed on trying to steal his horse. To Sioux, both white man and Pawned tribe are the same.They are both hazardous people who want them dead. To whi te Americans at the end of the movie, both Pawned, Sioux, are all the same. They are Just an obstacle to their moving frontier. When taken into more personal come upon, it makes us realize, disregarding what tribe we are from, we are all same. We laugh when its fun we cry to the death of close one, we feel friendship and comradeship when fighting shoulder to shoulder against creeping death. However, we can never deny what we come from. Perhaps this is why the resonating echo of Wind in his Hair sounded so sad.Dances With Wolves, I am Wind in His Hair. Do you see that I am your friend? Can you see that you will always be my friend? Without answering to his roar, Dance With Wolves, or John Dunbar rides away to the piled snowy mountain. What this implies, no matter where we come from, we can be friends, but at the same time, it is so unenviable to stray a component from what you genuinely are. The second point which I found interesting relates more to my personal experiences. I mov ed abroad when I was 10 years old. It is an age tight to tell who really I am.I was arced into different culture when I was at school, and I was forced to Korean culture when I came home, back from the school. It is hard to deny what we are used to. The concept is so different, starting from living, eating, greeting, to the way of funeral. John Dunbar, when he was caught by his fellow soldiers towards the end of the movie, denied himself of being John Dunbar, declaring himself as l am Dance With Wolves. He totally seemed to become part of Sioux tribe. However, what was ironic was that the reason he went back to the camp at the first tail end was to find his urinal.Was Journal so important? Especially thinking about Indian culture where they dont have the concept of individual ownership? Furthermore, if John Dunbar contumacious to live with their tribe for the rest of his life, what importance of meaning that Journal could possibly hold? I think this part of irony shows how hard i t is to forget your own culture. This also relates to the conclusion of the first point of this essay. I spent most of my adolescent overseas. When I had about 17 to 18 years, I too was alienated who I was. Am I Korean? Or am I biologically Korean with American Houghton?I still today, dont think myself as I am one-hundred percent Korean. John Dunbar probably had the same kind of confusion. After his attempt of killing himself, decision of Journey to find himself. He thought he had become part of the Sioux. He learned their language, became friend with them. He hated how white people acted in the war, and he was tired of it. Thats why he resolved to head west. However, indeed, he never became a true Indian, and he did not wanted to be a regular white man neither the collapse of his two identities must have been very hard on him.It was very interesting in the film how his agony of two clashing identity had solvent on John Dunbar. I looked at the film on two different but similar t opics nature of human being and individuals thought of his identity. I think, every human is same, but different. We all dream, and we all have different identity. Identity can be a key factor what describes oneself. John Dunbar identity is John Dunbar, Lieutenant of The United States Union Army. He is an officer and the officer in charge of Fort Sedgwick. His identity is Dance With Wolves.He is a husband of Rise With Fist, and a part of Sioux member. He fought against Pawned to defend his tribe. He is an excellent marksman. He used his gun to save a Sioux girls life from buffalo. He has a Sioux wife. Her name is Rise With Fist, blessed with a name Christine on her birth. Despite the fact that they were brought up in different culture, and different background, they became friends, enemies, husbands and wives. However, they did not truly become one. Which is I thought of as ironic message of the film. The United States is known to be a culture of Melting Pot.However, Native American s are not part of this melting pot. The United States is also sarcastically said to be a salad bowl of different ethnicities. In the melting pot, all ingredients melt into one unusual identity. However in a salad bowl, even though they are mixed together, each ingredient remains their identity. This might be the message what the director of the film Dances With Wolves wanted to say. Not sad, not frightening, nor ugly, Just a self-portrait of the world we live in, a world where we are so close but so outlying(prenominal) away from each other.