The Snow Walker is a collection of short storiess about the Arctic North and the Eskimo's that inhabit it. All of the stories in the book deal with surivival, whether it be survival from other Eskimo tribes, famen or the Eskimos worste neightmare, White people. The stories speak of the earliest life in the Arctic and the most contempary, sometimes its hard to notice the diffrence. Some of the stories deal with people who are threatened with extinction by white people or by the harshness of nature. At the same time as Mowat describes the hard ships of the Arctic North he also describes the beauty of the North and the human endurance and courage that withstand Earth's most fearful elements.
As one reads the stories one notices the distinct diffrences between our civilization and the Eskimo people. Eskimo's have a total diffrent outlook on life and totally diffrent culture then we do. Eskimo's are peaceful people that just want to survive. They never fight with one another in their own tribes, and when they fight wars they only kill the men, leaving the woman and children unharmed, in some occasoins even adopting the woman and children into their own tribe. Hate and anger are two things that Eskimos are most fearful of. "Ang
The Author's purpose in writing this book was to share his expierences of the Arctic and retell the stories he had hard heard. The book was written to introduce Arctic life to the rest of the world. He introduces their life style because the author feels that Eskimo's are wonderful people that have a very old history. The author also writes the book to describe what effect the white civilization had on the Eskimo people. The author basicaly states that the Eskimo people are decreasing in population and have decreased because of white people moving farther and farther north each year.
Although the Eskimo people are much more in peace with themselves and are nicer then us they would be considered uncivilized and primitive people that let nature decide their fate. Eskimo's would be considerd uncivilized because of their harsh eating habbits. Eskimo's dont understand the concept of cooking meat, they see it as a source of energy and eat raw straight from the animal they had just killed. This uncivilized manner is seen through one of the stories when an Eskimo kills a dear. " People wept as they sumbled and staggered toward the deer carcass. the first ones to reach it clung to it like flies, sucking the blood that sill bubbled
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