Read the passage from Pushing the Bear. QUATY LEWIS
Of all the trees who spoke it was the pine who said we
would go, covering its needles with its hands. The
ground seemed to rumble loose our hold. "A whole nation
would move," my husband said, sweating though it was
no longer hot. Since the 1835 New Echota Treaty, the
U. S. government had been trying to push the Cherokee
to the new territory. A few had gone, but the rest of us
wouldn't leave. Last summer, the soldiers began
internment in stockades, but the heat sickened the
Cherokee, and we knew they would wait until fall. Each
day I looked for soldiers on the road.
MARITOLE
The rumble of the wagon startled me from blackness. I
sat up. Knobowtee walked beside the wagon. "Some of
the Cherokee have already gone west," I heard the men
How does the use of multiple points of view affect the
reader's interpretation?
O The women's perspectives show that the Cherokee
people felt anxious, whether they tried to stay or were
forced to leave immediately.
The women's perspectives show that they were
cynical about being able to resist and thought that they
had to comply.
O Quaty Lewis's perspective shows why the soldiers
came to Cherokee lands, and Maritole's perspective
tells what happened once they did.
Quaty Lewis's and Maritole's perspectives show how
the Cherokee who chose to stay were not as affected
emotionally by the soldiers as those who left.