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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of Jackson's "Ramona". Excerpts from the text are used to justify a theme of cultural subjugation. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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social issues through a naturalistic presentation of those issues via the instrument of narrative. While it is a mode not commonly utilizes, it nevertheless produced many powerful examples of literature
with a social focus. Perhaps one of the most acclaimed and successful of these novels is Helen Hunt Jacksons Ramona. This paragraph helps the student introduce the text and
explore the authors thesis. Ramona is a social novel that concerns itself with the plight of the American Indian during the late 1880s, when westward expansion was in its heyday
and Indian culture and possessions were under constant threat of appropriation and assimilation. The authors purpose with the novel, as attested in a number of interviews, was to shed light
upon the situations faced by Indians and bring sufficient attention to that plight to rally support for the cause. To do this, she developed the character of Ramona, a half-Scottish
and half-Indian girl who goes to live with distant relatives, Mexicans settling in the lower part of California, only recently assimilated into the United States. Throughout the course of the
novel, Ramona faces a number of trials and ordeals stemming from the fact of her Indian heritage. Through presenting these trials, Jackson is able to show, through extrapolation, the trials
faced by actual Indians in real life. The careful selection of narrative situations that highlight the social problems facing Indians was the methodology used by the author. For instance,
in the late 19th century, traditional Indian culture and religion was often threatened by an American insistence upon converting "savage" Indians to Christianity (either Protestant or Catholic). This insistence propagated
a cultural conception of Indians as somehow innately savage or devilish. This is reflected in Jacksons text, as Ramonas caretaker Senora Moreno forces her hired Indian labor to attend Catholic
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