Bone Girl

Bone Girl

In reading the short story “Bone Girl” I felt very close to the author. I felt he spoke from a knowledge of his people that few white people can visualize or even sometimes to accept. In the story he spoke of the differences between the white people burial rituals and the Native American rituals. The quote I found very interesting was, “White people bury their dead in a graveyard full of people they don’t know and then they move away themselves.” The author went on to explain that is why white people have such a dread of graveyards and the ones buried there. He related the whites that had been buried in these unfamiliar places, to the homeless people we see on the streets of large cities. They wander around talking to themselves and seem demented in ways. They have lost family and friends and are destined to spend their eternity in a land of unknowns and are restless and upset. Most white people fear their graveyards feel these haunted relatives and believ...