When the young Native American travels to Wisconsin via train hopping, his act is seen as rather uncivilized; more modern and contemporary ways of travel would be by car not train hopping, and yet, he committed this "uncivilized" act as he does not want to conform with the ideals of society and civilization. ... An example from the story states how the narrator feels inferior: "It is terrible to feel inferior; to have to read reports of intelligence tests and learn that one's race is behind."(277) White culture and Civilization are entwined together and show how they...

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