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When The Legends Die Essay, Research Paper

Walz 3

Setting

The term setting refers to the time and place of a story or play. There are four different settings in this book. It is like this because the book is divided into four different sections. The four sections are Bessie, The School, The Arena, and The Mountains. All of these sections have totally different settings.

First, I will discuss the first section of the book, Bessie. In Bessie, The setting takes place in a town called Pagosa and in the Bald Mountains. The start of the book is in the town. This is where Bessie, George Black Bull, and Thomas Black Bull live. The town is just the ordinary early twentieth century town with the basic stores and work places. There was a store in the town called Thatcher?s General Store. There is a mill in the town also where George Black Bull worked. The second part of Bessie is in the Bald Mountains. The Bald Mountains are full of aspen trees, streams, creeks, low-lying valleys and wild animals. Some of the wild animals include deer, bears, and mountain lions. The Black Bull Family bathes in one of the many small pools in the creek. The Black Bull family live in a small lodge on the edge of a stone mountain. Their lodge is approximately seven to ten miles from the town Pagosa.

Second, I will discuss the second part of the book, The School. The School takes place on an Indian reservation. Thomas Black bull goes to school in the reservation. The reservation is just like a kind of farm. There are chicken coops, horse stalls, livestock pastures, and crop fields where they make some of their food. Thomas lived in the dormitory of the reservation with fellow classmates.

Third, I will discuss the third part of the book, The Arena. The Arena takes place all over the United States but mostly in the southwest. Thomas Black lives in a one-room cabin in the middle of nowhere with Red Dillon and a man named Meo. Here, Thomas is taught how to ride saddle broncs at a small barn with a wooden chute. Thomas rides saddle broncs all over the country including places like New York, Dallas, Denver, and mostly a town called Aztec. He went all over the world riding for the big circuit rodeo. Also, a small part of the setting takes place in a hospital where he ends up after a severe injury from a horse.

Finally, I will discuss the last part of the book, The Mountains. The Mountains takes place in the Horse Mountains. Here, Thomas herds sheep for a living in just one of the huge valleys on Horse Mountain. The valleys there are full of nutritious grass for the sheep. Thomas bathes in a pool of one of the many creeks in the Horse Mountains. He builds a lodge and a drying rack in the Horse Mountains on the first branch of Granite Peak.

Point of View

The term point of view refers to the vantage point from which the writer has chosen to tell the story. The book, When the Legends Die plot refers to the omniscient point of view. The omniscient point of view is when the person telling the story knows everything there is to know about the characters and their problems. This all knowing narrator can tell us about the characters past, present, and future. This narrator can even tell us what the character is thinking. In the omniscient point of view, the narrator is not in the story at all. The narrator is like a god telling the story. Hal Borland, the writer of When the Legends Die, is the all knowing narrator in this novel.

Plot

The term plot refers to the series of related events that make up a story. Plot is what happens in a story, whether that story is told in the form of a short story, novel, play, or poem. Most plots are built on the following three bare bones: basic situation which is tells us who the characters are and what their conflict is, climax which is the most exciting moment in the story, and resolution which is when all the story?s problems are solved and the story is closed.

The book starts of on a Ute reservation in southwestern Colorado. This is where George, Bessie, and Thomas Black Bull live. One day this family and some of their friends go and camp on the reservation line to kill deer for the winter. Then a man named Blue Elk came and found them. He said they were in bad trouble and the police would come get them because they didn?t have proper permits to be where they were. Blue Elk made a deal with them. He told George that if he came and lived in the town Piedra and worked at the sawmill he would get everything cleared up with the police. George agreed to work at the sawmill. It was good money. After a while, his wife Bessie got tired of living in the town and wanted to move back to the reservation so George started to save up his money to pay the fees he owed to the store and to other people. Everytime he would save up his money someone would steal it. He finally found out who stole all of his money. It was a man named Frank No Dear. George got tired of him stealing his money so he killed him. After he killed him, his family left to go and live in the Bald Mountains. After staying there in a lodge they built, George was killed in an avalanche while hunting for deer. Not long after that, Thomas changed his name to Bear?s Brother. In the Ute tribe, they let their people chose their own name after a period of time. Then, his mother Bessie died from an illness.

Bear?s Brother was left alone. One day, he saw a hunter kill a bear and on of it?s cubs. The bear had two cubs. One of them was left alone so he took one of them as his pet and before long he called the cub his brother. Some time later, he went into the nearest town to Bald Mountain, Pagosa, with his cub to trade at the general store for supplies. This caused a lot of madness in the town because he had brought a bear. As he was leaving the town, Blue Elk stopped him and asked, ?whom do you live with.? He said he lived with his

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