I Heard An Owl Call My Name
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"I Heard An Owl Call My Name" is a novel written by Margaret Craven, published in 1973. Margaret Craven was born in Helena, Montana and graduated from Stanford University. She started off with her short stories in a large number of American magazines. Some of these stories have been translated into other languages. "I Heard An Owl Call My Name" was her first complete novel. This story contains a lot of symbolic language.
The setting takes place in Kingcome village, in the Pacific Northwest, where a minister named Mark Brian is leading a mission. Kingcome village is home to a tribe of Indians known as the Kwakiutl natives. The story shows their ups and downs. Mark has a deadly disease, but has no knowledge of it. The Bishop on the other hand knows everything about Mark's illness. He makes a decision to send Mark on a challenging mission. His goal there was to help the Indian tribe in every way possible. The Bishop�s ulterior motive was to help Mark grow as a person. He does not tell Mark about his illness because he wants him to get involved and attached to the Indians.
Mark meets new people and learns all about the Indian cultures, traditions, and rituals. He had to overcome many great difficulties in order to help and convert these proud, Kwakiutl native people. The old ones were unreligious while the young ones had little respect towards the old people and the old ways of...
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