For Better or For Worst

The introduction of new ideas has the ability to stimulate change for the better, but it can also cause conflicts between the old and new. Ideas provides a bond between a community, in which they share and revise through generations. However, not everyone automatically agrees with everything. This problem will cause even greater conflict as one side unwilling stands down from their beliefs. In the novel written by N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn, the theme explains how the old customs of Native Americans and their practicality for the newest generation. It describes the results of the European-American intrusion on Native American land and their attempts at the destruction of Native American culture.
I have chosen to write about this novel and to explore the struggles and sacrifices a young man, living in the reservation, endures as he tries to make a transition from reservation life to city life. In th...