Chees Daughter

Term Paper Title	Chees Daughter
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Chee's Daughter

A characters environment reveals a great deal about his
personality. In Chee's Daughter by Juanita Platero and
Siyowin Miller this theory is displayed. In this story a young
Navajo Indian girl is taken from her home by her deceased
mother's parents. Two different environments which reflect
values and personalities are conflicting. A young traditional
Navajo,Chee , and a non-traditional Navajo businessman,
Old Man Fat , fight over Chee's daughter, Little One. The two
distinctly different settings in this story reflect the
personalities of the protagonist,Chee , and the antagonist
Old Man Fat.
Chee's setting reflects his caring nature. He shows this
by caring for the land he lives on like a father would do for
his son. He shows that he cares for the land by thinking that
"if he sang the proper songs, if he cared for the land
faithfully, it would not forsake him now..."(82) Chee is trying
to grow food and he thinks that if he cares for the land and
respects it that the earth would in turn make the food grow
well. Another way to show this is how Chee thought that if he
"Take care of the land and it will take care of you."(81) Chee
cared and respected the land and in turn the land gave him
food for which he would to barter back Little One from Old
Man Fat. Chee treats the land as an equal. "he felt so
strongly that just now this was something between himself
and the land."(82) ...

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