justice. Dorris, a highly acclaimed Native American writer, has received awards ranging

from the National Book Critics Circle award to awards from the National Endowment for

the Arts. After his death in 1997, he is now one of the most celebrated Native American

writers of his generation. Our culture's idea of justice conflicts with Dorris's idea that

there is no moral system that repays the innocent for what they have wrongly suffered.

In the excerpt, Dorris is in constant questioning of how one can substantiate that

there is true justice. He often looks for material evidence, but almost always comes up

short-handed. He refers to justice as a palliative myth in the beginning. He explains that

this myth makes existence bearable for our society. Religion is not what gets us through

the day, it is our conception of justice. We look for justice after death, believing if we do

not receive it during life we will receive it after. As Dorris says, "Someday our prince

"This is an impulse of ours that begets common assumptions," Dorris explains.

We are said to allow these assumptions to be guides in our life, "we functi

Dorris makes the point that justice is a myth and asks how we got the idea that

deserved that he never got. He has no positive outlook throughout the article, often

they just might be able to buy themselves justice. It is not like what we expected, we are

behind everything, but this is how we have always thought. Why not question what is

like we would be shocked if it was true. Many did not look at the television screen in

not all fair in front of the law. Nothing is equal, but yet we believe it be impartial. Our

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)