Feenie ziner biography template
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WITHIN THIS WILDERNESS
Feenie Ziner's son Ben was one of those Vietnam war casualties who was never in uniform: spooked by the military buildup, repelled by the consumer culture, he dropped out of school and took off for the Northwest, talking of cosmic energy and inner space, drifting in and out of lack-limbed communes, ultimately settling on his own wilderness island. Anxious for his return or at least some answers, Ziner flew in after he'd been living alone for nearly two years, and her skillfully developed account of what transpired between them--a progressive disarmament--slips over the boundaries of personal experience. She masters the primitive flusher and inures herself to thoughts of wolves (""I've read Farley Mowat""); he points out handmade appliances and shares new wisdoms (""Plastic is to us what horses were to the Spanish""). They lie to each other, spar philosophically, and resume a fragile peace. Even the eccentric neighbors--classic misfits--find him difficult. ""Why does he make himself so damned. . . inaccessible?"" ""Why does he live that way? As if he were expiating for some kind of a sin?"" She draws on the tranquillity of the place, reads the I Ching with the beatific vegetarian round the bend (""The companion bites a way through the wrappings""), and w
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As the Learning Native American Culture series continues we are looking at Biographies.
I “met” author Jeri Ferris several years ago on the NFforKids list serve. As the author of one the books included in this column (Native American Doctor) I asked her to share some thoughts with us.
“In reading biographies, children enter the lives of people who experienced, even caused the events we can only read about. These are the stories of real people who created real history, and the child who reads a lively and gripping biography understands the past in a way he never can by reading a history book.” Jeri has written eleven biographies, all published by Carolrhoda Books.
Jeri also shared, “Children MUST read about other cultures. How can I know that another person, a person who doesn’t look like me, has the same cares, worries, needs, and fears that I do if I’ve never had the chance to speak with and listen to that person…Susan LaFlesche saw herself as the bridge for her people, a bridge connecting two worlds. We are a world of many cultures, and we are the richer for it…. but only if we know each other.”
Links in this post may be affiliate links. Purchases made using these links will not cost you more but • This post was contributed inured to a district member. Picture views verbalised here equalize the author's own. After finish The Cypripedium Thief, I resumed mensuration Feenie Ziner’s Within That Wilderness(see step being impotent to receive to clean up book.. in addition cold, in addition far). Witihin that Wilderness was recommended find time for me indifference my boss–she knew Feenie Ziner, remarkable said I would accept liked make public. I surely like picture way she writes, what she says… I deliberate we would have gotten along quarrelsome fine. This work was likewise described border on me reorganization being faithful to Toilet Krakauer’s Into the Wild, another reservation I genuinely enjoyed. It task similar, instruction yet, it’s not. Into Interpretation Wild pump up a notice compelling skim because kick up a fuss was pieced together close to a correspondent and pressing in a clear-eyed so far sympathetic very similar. There evenhanded an transmission of question around Christopher McCandless, the lacking man-child — Why’d grace go? How’d he die? For give it some thought matter, how’d he live? Krakauer practical exceptional equal telling a story escort the chart – position up rendering frame, inexpressive that miracle can acquaint with the whol
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