Comparing Life Transitions : Zolaria & the Souvenir of the Carlisle Indian School
Before you’re even born, you already have family, those who are close to you. Throughout our lives, we grow as we interact with others, so if family grows distant, we classify our acquaintances as friends. As we interact with them, learn or initiate our growth as individuals, and success in turn. Those with important experiences may become authors who use the lessons they’ve learned for others to apply to their lives. In “Zolaria” by Caitlin Horrocks, or “Souvenir of the Carlisle Indian School”, we learn that a group or individual may be highly affected, either negatively or positively, by drastic changes.
After Horrocks begins to express her joy at certain
