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Short Story: A Mother's Identity As A Blackfoot

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In this short story, a mother works hard for her identity as a Blackfoot. Reading this story you can reflect on many interesting parts and one of it is the moral. I believe the moral is to fight for justice and to be proud of your identity. The mother wants to cross the border but, when a guard asked her about her citizenship she replied, “Blackfoot”. The guard disallowed her to cross but, she persevered and kept her identity. The author writes, “Told us that justice was a damn hard thing to get, but that we shouldn’t give up.” This tells how we must fight for justice (like the mother) and never give up. In this short story, the protagonist was an Indian man who fought for the rights of animals. This shows how you don’t need superpowers like

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