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Tom Whitecloud Blue Winds Dancing Analysis

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Journal 6 The story by Tom Whitecloud “Blue Winds Dancing” is about the life journey. This story is simple and easy to understand. The narrator of this story talks about the day from his home to college. As he walking down the railroad tracks he talk about peaceful he feels the snow and the forest surrounding him. He is describing the geography of different states one by one, as he passes by each one of them. The exposition in this story is in the being where he is talking about moon. The complication or the development of a major conflict and crisis where the conflict meet its greatest tension. The narrator says Wisconsin as a world white, beautiful, and clean. I think the

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