Tensions In Martin Luther King's Life

Luther does talk a lot of the tensions he had combining each life. Changing his physical appearance seemed hard on him. He talked a lot about the clothes. He talked about how it make him feel awkward and uncomfortable. He said the leather boots he had to wear where most of the suffering, and how the white people told them if they walk in the dew with bare feet they would catch a cold. This was very strange to him because the natives when bare foot all the time and were never told of any type of sickness they could pick up. He also did not like the red flannel garments which made him feel like he was being tortured. He said he would get undressed and hide them away until he had to put them on again. What also challenged him about combining the white man life was having to
He had to go up to a blackboard with names on it and pick one he liked and slowly learned to respond to his new name. Out of all the changes he was forced to make he said changing his diet was the most injurious. He went from eating meat, fruit, and vegetables, to white bread, coffee, and sugar. Although all this change occurred after five years contact with the white people he resumed life on the reservation and kept in direct contact with the tribal life. Zitkala-Sa’s experience with the tensions she had between combining her two ways of life were different then Luthers. For example, she shared a time early in her writing of a time a white women was playing with her and threw her up and down for fun. This was frightening for her because that wasn't something her mother would have ever done. Another time was when she got older she said her pride kept her from going back to her mom. This was because if her mother had known she would have said, “the white man’s papers were not worth the freedom and health I had lost by them.” She believed if her mother had said this it would have been to