Which passages from The Education of a Young Chief best show that an important aspect of the narrator’s culture is to think of t
he needs of others in the community before one’s own needs? Select all that apply. The Education of a Young Chief “If you reverence the aged, many will be glad to hear of your name,” were the words of my father. “The poor man will say to his children, ‘my children, let us go to him, for he is a great hunter, and is kind to the poor; he will not turn us away empty.
’” Many a lecture I received when the deer lay bleeding at the feet of my father; he would give me an account of the nobleness of the hunter’s deeds, and said that I should never be in want whenever there was any game …
The Indians, as has just been said, once had a custom, which is now done away, of making a great feast of the first deer that a young hunter caught; the young hunter, however, was not to partake of any of it, but wait upon the others.
“We have only one custom among us, and that is well known to all; this river and all that is in it are mine. I have come up the river behind you, and you appear to have killed all before you. This is mine, and this is mine.”
“If you reverence the aged, many will be glad to hear of your name,” were the words of my father. “The poor man will say to his children, ‘my children, let us go to him, for he is a great hunter, and is kind to the poor; he will not turn us away empty.
The Indians, as has just been said, once had a custom, which is now done away, of making a great feast of the first deer that a young hunter caught; the young hunter, however, was not to partake of any of it, but wait upon the others.
Explanation:
As we can see in these passages, the narrator thinks of the needs of others in the community before his own.
We can see how he speaks of the elderly, the poor and his kindness towards them, as well as with the Indians, where he speaks that he had to wait for others before participating in anything.
These are clues that show us that these passages contain the correct answers.
