Dances With Wolves

Through the eyes of the narrator, John Dunbar, we experience the majesty and magnitude of the American frontier, and the complexity of the relationship between the ‘whiteman' and the ‘Indian'. When John Dunbar met the Indians, he was scared because of the stereotype set by the Ponee and other savage Indians. The Indians had a lot of weird traditions. One of Dunbar's experiences was when they finished the buffalo hunt, they took the heart out, …

…to move very fast made it seem like him dancing with Dunbar when he was following Dunbar. In reality, the wolf, twosocks was playing with Dunbar. The Indians believed that when someone dies, their spirit is still with them and that they are in a better place. So, when twosocks died, his spirit was within their world and he still had the breathtaking howl left in him to salute his friend for life, John Dunbar.