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Book report on the Parkman's classic text focusing on the theme that Parkman became a man through the adventure in terms of controlling his ego as part of the hero's journey. 1 work cited. jvOregTr.rtf
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the heros story, wherein the hero begins his journey beset by his own prejudices and then in the process of becoming a man (in this case), he leaves those prejudices
behind because they have saved him from himself. The Oregon Trail opens friendly to the civility of the mundane activities of the adventure
about to start. Parkman begins by demonstrating how civilization, even at its most tactless, base and diverse, is normal and foreshadows the arduous journey ahead. This lets us know that
Parkman will leave his own civility behind to become a creature of the wild. His goal is to take this last chance
to rub shoulders with an American continent before it is tamed. In so doing, he allows himself to show himself as untamed. He does this in a number of ways,
one of which is visible through the process of counting coup. All people count coup; its the same as saying or proving without words, "Im better than you." By reporting
his observations of Native Americans so bluntly, for example, this is Parkmans, the white mans, way of counting coup. It also gives the message that Im already a man, which
Parkman is not when he begins his adventure. Parkman and his friend and relative Shaw are Eastern bourgeois; they are Harvard graduates leaving
a world of tranquil Sabbaths in New Hampshirian and Vermontian woods to travel in a world of uneducated and coarse people for the experience of it. Later, in chapter ten,
Parkman even admits that he had set out to become a member of a Native American tribe, but he sees then, that this was not the real adventure. It was
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