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1.5 Definition of Terms
There are some terms used in this study that need clarification and specific definitions based on the theory of experts and some referential sources in order to
avoid misconception amongst the readers. The terms are namely Character, the Indians, the Whites, the Braves and Perception. Those terms are significant to
explain because of their importance in the discussion. Thus, the definitions of
some terms are defined as follows. 1.5.1
Character
Abrams 1981, p. 146 defines characters as the persons represented in dramatic and narrative work, who are interpreted by the readers as being endowed
with particular moral, intellectual and emotional qualities by inferences from what the persons say and their distinctive ways of saying it and from what they do in
action. The character’s qualities will be described in the story from the very beginning until the end as the effects of the crises of the environmental and
personal factors rise and change.
1.5.2 The Indians
Indians are those who have inhabited the West Hemisphere, America, from far long time before the first Europeans came to this New World and
developed the new social life and culture. The name “Indian” came from Columbus’ idea that he had reached “The Indies” Shoen, 1955, pp. 12-23.
Columbus considered that he had come to India and he perceived the people he met as the Indian people in middle Asia. However; his reckoning was wrong. The
term “Indian” came from Spanish term Indios and hereby, the term “Indian” was
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directed to Native American, not the middle Asian Indian people. They live along in groups spread all over the vast land in America. There are a lot numbers of
tribes where these people belong to. The ones involved in the story are namely: the Shawnee, the Apache, the Dakota Sioux and the Skidi Pawnee.
Unger 1982 in his book The United States: the Question of Our Past describes that the Indians are the tribes that live directly with the nature; they are
skillful in cultivating lands and natures p. 3. Different from the European who consider nature as the obstacles to be overcome, the Indians rely and preserve the
nature as they believe that it will yield benefits and living for them for all the moment.
Although the Indians had made a considerable progress in arts and cultures and even they had once lived for many-many centuries in the finest land in the
world, they were far from advance civilization system compared to the European Chitwood and Owlsey, 1955, pp. 7-8. This fact arouses the whites to eagerly
take selfish benefits from the Indians.
1.5.3 The Whites
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