The Power of Alcohol

In four souls, Alcohol does play some role. Fleur got pregnant because drinking whiskey, Nanapush been like a fool because drinking wine. Other Indians had been fool by the whites because of Alcohol too. Alcohol is not good if too much drinking, and it seems Fleur, Nanapush and other Indians know that but just cannot get away from it. In "The Warriors", Uncle Ralph got kick out from his family because drinking too much. He is in trouble with alcohol too. In To The American Indian, the Klamath Bluffs store owner got in trouble because selling whiskey to the Indians too. From these, I realize the relation between alcohol and the Indians. In these works, it seems the alcohol troubles the Indians much and cause them lost mind and judgment. Some Indians in these works seem to know it is bad to drink, but they just can't help it so they drink and got themselves into trouble. Even though To the American Indian is kind of non-fiction, and "The Warriors" and Four Souls are fictions, I still can relate them in terms of Alcohol. All three of them outline how alcohol affect Indians, how the characters got into trouble because of alcohol. They are different stories but they all have the bad image of alcohol. They try to tell the audiences not to drink alcohol too much and alcohol is a bad thing. They tell that by showing how fool a person can turn out to be when they drink alcohol. They tell the audience they do not want to be just like Uncle Ralph got kick out from his family, or like Fleur got pregnant and the child be mental ill, or like Nanapush show up it a meeting wearing a woman's dress. (Oh, I wish I could write about this topic more for my Essay 3 and make some researches on alcoholism, but it's too late to change my topic for Essay3, too bad :( )