Night Flying Woman Analysis

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In Night Flying Woman, the Ojibway tribe goes through many, many changes throughout the book. The Ojibway struggle to keep hold on their cultures and traditions as the settlers take their land from them and change their tradition. Throughout the book there are many examples of the Ojibway changing their traditions because of a new place and way of life, and keeping the traditions the way they are because that's the way of life they're used to. In the book you also see them changing their traditions a little bit because of their situation but holding on to the main focus of the tradition. Change vs. tradition is very important theme in Night Flying Woman because Oona, her family, and all of the Native Americans experience many changes to their traditions and ways of life that they have had for a very long time,
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For me, I experienced a positive change to my family's tradition of starting plants from seed for the garden. At or old house, we had a small garden and yard and we started just enough to plant in the small garden. But when we moved, we had much more space and two massive gardens, so we had to change our tradition to growing much more as well and having a greenhouse to keep all of the plants in, and selling excess plants to combat the cost of starting so much seeds. This represents the theme because we changed our tradition when we moved, so we could keep on practicing the same tradition of starting our own seeds.
There are many other examples of this theme in Night Flying Woman, and examples people can find in their own lives as well. Change vs tradition is a very important theme in the book as the Ojibway tribe experience many changes to their traditions as the try to hold onto their culture. This is also present in people's lives now, as changes in our lives can mean changing our traditions to work with the world as it