He utilized these characters to symbolize all combinations of sounds in the Cherokee tongue. ... In this book of essays, there is a short excerpt about the legendary Sequoyah. This book lacks details about the early life of Sequoyah, yet is pretty well in depth when it comes to his later life. This book portrays the entire Cherokee alphabet as well as a list of sounds that the characters signify. ... It gives information concerning literacy among Cherokee families, which proves to be very interesting. ...

• Word Count: 1725
• Approx Pages: 7

Wallace Stegner makes this statement at the end of "Coda", a letter included in his book The Sound of Mountain Water. ... Stegner's book Wolf Willow concerned itself with accounting his childhood experiences in southern Saskatchewan and intertwining these stories with historical information about the area. In The Sound of Mountain Water Stegner talks about his first encounter with a mountain river and how after living on the prairie for his whole childhood the sight and sounds of this rushing water moved him greatly. ... In The Sound of Mountain Water Stegner writes mostly about the Ameri...

• Word Count: 1836
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For a book that seems to look down upon racism, these passages are rather confusing. ... That is not to say that the book is not exciting, quite the contrary in fact. ... Another appreciable characteristic of the book is the reference to the "Last of the Mohicans". ... Cooper believes that Native American languages favor the sound of silence, the kind of silence looked down upon in disdain by French and English languages. ... Unfortunately, Cooper's readers have demanded no credentials of any kind, or even attempted to question why Cooper may be an authority on Native Americans, and thi...

• Word Count: 1482
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although Faulkner wrote many novels such as Absalom Absalom and The Sound and the Fury, his intuition into the lives of people around him is clearly seen in his shorter stories. ... When Miss Emily died, it was explained in the book that most people went into her wake just to see the inside of her house because the word was that Miss Emily had killed Homer Barron and his body lay in her upstairs bedroom for over twenty years. ... Faulkner could have been making a statement about rumors or gossip and how exaggerated things can become in small towns or how fast information can move throughou...

• Word Count: 1764
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

First Encounters: The Confrontation between Cortes and Montezuma In the book Discovering the American Past, Wheeler does an extraordinary job detailing the events that took place some 20,000-40,000 years ago. ... It seems that when Cortes is describing the Native Americans in his letter to King Charles I of Spain he almost sounds disgusted, like they are scum of the earth. ... After finding this information out he presumed by taking some of the Lords as hostages. ...

• Word Count: 1399
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School