Kathleen Norris Dakota :: Kathleen Norris Dakota

  Kathleen Norris Dakota           Kathleen Norris uses small townsfolk society to bedeck a much larger phenomenon that occurs in America The obstruction of right in the name of progress and patriotism. Norris makes an example of a small Dakota town, the previous(a) families ingrained in local society who act as or so of a censorship committee, silently fixing the pasts blunders and bad dreams so non to discourage themselves or the younger generation A good flooring is one that isnt demanding, that proceeds from A to B, and above all doesnt remind us of the bad times, the cardboard patches we utilize to wear in our shoes, the failed farms, the way plenty you love just up and die. It tells us instead that hard dally and perseverance can overcome all obstacles it tells lie after lie, and the bright ending is the happiest lie of all. (85)   Norris mentions the progress meansl and linear narrative used in the telling of biography . People in Dakota dont want to hear close the countless generations in front them who also failed at farming, the once thriving town that argon now abandoned completely. They dont want to hear about anybody who failed, or anything bad that happened at all unless things turned out OK in the end. People have a requisite to hear fixed story to give them a false sense of hope. Even though many of them know its false, theyre willing to accept the fable as truth before facing a painful past.   The larger repercussions of this form of history, is that it misses out on the larger purpose of history. The most important part of history to be told truthfully is the bad part. Imagine our history glazing over Hitler as a crazy guy who acted alone, and forced everybody in Germany to go along with his plan. We need to hear the story that regular people were pulled into his mentality, that random Joes were converted into Jew-hating murderers.   Unfortunately, American history does ha ve a habit of covering up its history for the sake of offering its younger generations a progress model. In a book titled Lies My Teacher Told Me, James Loewen shows how the progress model mode of history telling has covered up many important events in American history to the point that children in public education are graduating high school with extremely warped views of history.