John Graves 'The Last Running'

In the story The Last Running, John Graves reveals the developing fraternal bond and the understandings of culture through, protagonists, Starlight and Tom Bird. Due to the terse and parable writing language, Graves sets a comfortable tone with the audience to manifest the value of the lifestyle during that time. Starlight’s behavior is similar to Quanah Parker because they both had the ability to create a relationship with the whites. In order to survive, they both had to build a bond with the whites so that they can pursue their cultures. For example, “Parker was an assimilationist, an advocate of cooperation with whites and, in many cases, of cultural transformation” (Hosmer). This declares that Parker adapted to the whites so that he