Bonjours a tous !
Voila je vien ici demander un peu d´aide pour faire mon devoir maison d´anglais. C´est noté, c´est donc pour ça que je m´inquiete et je le trouve un peu compliqué pour mon petit niveau de 1ere.
Alors bien sur je met tout le texte et toutes les questions mais je ne demande pas que vous répondiez a tous ce serait illogique. Toutefois si vous avez des élements de réponses ou même certaine réponse a des questions je veux bien que vous me les donniez.
Merci d´avance
How many more?
“Why are the ´whites coming into our country?” Kicking Bird would ask.
And Dunbar would reply, "I s don´t think they want to come into the country, I think they only want to pass through."
Kicking Bird would counter. "The Texans are already in our country, chopping down the trees and tearing up the earth. They are killing the buffalo and leaving them in the grass. This is happening now. There are too many of these people already. How many more will be coming?"
Here the lieutenant would twist his mouth and say, "I don´t know."
"I have heard it said," the medicine man would continue, "that the whites only want peace in the country. Why do they always come with hair-mouth soldiers? Why do these hair-mouth Texas Rangers come after us when all we want is to be left alone?
I have been told of talks the white chiefs have had with my brothers. I have been told these talks are
peaceful and that promises are made. But I am told that the promises are always broken. If white chiefs
come to see us, how shall we know their true minds?
Should we take their presents? Should we sign their papers to show that there will be peace between us? When I was a boy many Comanches went to a house of law in Texas for a big meeting with white chiefs and they were shot dead."
The lieutenant would try to provide reasoned answers to Kicking Bird´s questions, but they were weak theories at best, and when pressed, he would inevitably end by saying, "I don´t know actually,"
He was being careful, for he could see the deep concern behind Kicking Bird´s queries and could not bring himself to tell what he really thought.
1- What do we know about the two characters? (Name, origin, occupation ...)
2- Determine when the scène takes place.
3- Pick out two elements revealing differences between the Indian´s and the whites´ ways of life.
4- List all the questions asked by Kicking Bird.
What does he actually want to know?
5- What is Dunbar´s most common answer?
6- What verb form indicates that the two men have already had this conversation before?
7- Choose among the following adjectives those which best qualify Dunbar´s attitude:
hostile -cautious - aggressive - reassuring - helpful and good-willing. Justify your choices.
8- Imagine that one day the lieutenant brings himself to tell Kicking-Bird what he really thinks.