A Yellow Raft in Blue Water is a story of three generations of women. Each woman is faced with basically the same type of event in her life and each reacts differently to that event. The event that is being focused on is the loss of the parent(s), whether the parent was known or unknown, and the loss of their childhood and how this affects their behavior. The loss of parent(s) that is being discussed is not due to death, but it is the emotional loss of a parent not assuming the parental role of the child. How a person reacts to an event and the outcome is based on their different personalities, developmental stages, environmental factors, etc. When the parent(s) of the child do not assume the necessary role that a parent must fill for a child they will emotionally damage the child.
Ida.
Ida seemed to be an average 15 year-old girl who lives at home with her mother and father, Annie and Lecon and her sister, Pauline. Ida attended school, where she was seen as an intelligent girl by the teachers, but constantly attempted to act like she was not as smart as she was. When her mother became ill, the family took over her mother's work responsibilities and also Annie's care until it became too much for her father. Ida was able to take on the role of caring for her family when her mother could no longer do so. Ida did not have a lot of guidance during the time her mother was sick. She and her sister basically were raising themselves during difficult time periods in their lives.
When it became too difficult for Lecon to work and care for his wife, Ida offered to quit school in order to care for her mother and help the family. Ida's father, Lecon refused the offer because he was too proud and felt that people would talk if he allowed her to do this. After much discussion it was decided that Annie's younger sister, Clara would come to live with them. Clara was going to help with caring for Annie so that Lecon would be free to work and not worry about his wife.
Perhaps these women's strength inspired the novel A Yellow Raft in Blue Water. ... His many awards in Native American Studies helped him to become strong in his ethnicity and later write the work A Yellow Raft in Blue Water in 1987. ... Michael Dorris' brilliant work, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, portrays three generations of Native American women. ...
Yellow Raft In Blue Waters is a tale of three women a fifteen year old half black and half Indian Rayona, who is trying to find herself, her American Indian mother Christine, consumed by both tenderness and resentment for the people she adores, and the mysterious Ida, who is the mother and grandmother. ...
My most favorite part of the entire summer was when my parents allowed me to go down the river in a canary yellow raft that we called flipper. The flipper was a 6 foot raft. ... We would start to get into the rafts we normally had anywhere from 3 to 6 rafts full of people per run. Everyone had there designated spots on the raft. ... I see everyone trying to get back in the raft. ...
Harry ran to the professor to find him sitting in front of a very old looking book, with yellowed pages and hand-made cover. ... The Professor shows Harry the great Underground Sea, and the raft the Hans had started to build out of the ropes, (while he was asleep) that they brought along and of driftwood. ... The Professor and Harry take off to where Hans is working on the raft and immediately boarded it. ... Slowly they get closer to the raft, giant waves thrashed the raft around. ... Under the raft Harry saw a huge shadow that resembled a crocodile. ...
It was the second week into our visit, my brother Davide and I, decided to purchase a raft. ... Excited was the word, we stayed up to half two in the morning blowing the raft up and preparing what we were going to wear, even sun tan lotion was thought of, we meant business. ... Before we jumped in my father told us to wait, we had forgot to tie the safety rope around the raft. ... One of the other men noticed that the raft was deflating, as if things were not bad enough, three men hanging to the side of the raft, two children inside it, it was unimaginable. The roar of the lifeboat was heard...
The next day was the first day of the adventure a big red and yellow charter bus came to the hotel and picked us up we all were excited one my cousins friends name Paul he was the life of the party type of person. ... We had a great time cliff climbing and white water rafting. ...
Two boats, seven surfers, two Skis, five cameramen, an Internet technician and me. I found out I was going two days ago, and so here I am, winging my way to some Indian Ocean outpost before I"d even had time to consider what kind of surf mission required the presence of Kelly Slater, Tom Carroll and big-wave nutters Ross Clarke-Jones, Peter Mel and Ralph Hagen (who is my brother) chucked in at the last minute to round out the mix. We were on our way to a secluded spot off the coast; I was in the boat with my brother, Carroll, Peter Mel and the Internet technician. When a couple of the...
IM SURE MOST OF U REMEMBER THE SIGHT OF A MAN IN A YELLOW SUIT POP UP INFRONT OF WOT LOOKED LIKE A VERY SMALL BOAT COMPARED TO THE GREAT HMAS ADELAIDE & GIVING HIS RESCUERS A BIG HUG. ... HE SPENT AN HR TRYING TO SEE WHETHER HE COULD FREE THE LIFE RAFT BUT IT WOULD TAKE 3 MEN TO DO SO. ...
In the richly textured novel A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, author Michael Dorris splendidly weaves a narrative in which the meaningful stories of three generations of women are told. Each story is incomplete without the other, and the reader is not fully able to understand the beginning narratives ...