Respect

One of the very important scenes in his book I thought was when the Englishman’s boy met up with the Indian girl. Hardwick and his men had raped her. He went in and put her clothes on. He felt bad for the young girl. There was something special that the boy saw in this girl. The next day all the wolfers were outside, ready to leave. They torched the building with the Indian girl still in it. The Englishman’s boy storms into the smouldering house and looks for this girl. He saw her on the counter top but the floor beneath here were engulfed in flames. He lost sight of her. He went in circles of the burning house looking for the girl until there was nothing. At night he circled it again three times but found nothing. He left Hardwick’s group because they had no respect. The Englishman’s boy has the most respect. “ He said a holy prayer for the two of them. Then he turned his horse northeast, like an Indian, to seek into the wilderness.” (Vanderhaeghe 307) This was a major conflict and The Englishman’s boy solved it right away by leaving the group. They deserved their horses being stolen.