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Uncle Frank Conflicts
The narrator of this novel is the sheriff's son, David. His Uncle Frank is a doctor and Grandfather Julian was the sheriff as well. David’s family lived just across the street from the courthouse. In late summer of 1948, one afternoon, though, his family's live-in Indian sitter, Marie Little Soldier, falls sick with pneumonia. When she vehemently objects to being seen by David's doctor uncle, the summer breaks apart in a fast-moving story of betrayal and tragedy. Uncle Frank is a threatener, he raped Marie when he was diagnosing at her. As a sheriff, David's father Wesley must choose between loyalty to his family and the justice he is sworn to uphold. While Wesley was investigating about his younger brother, Marie was killed at his house. As …show more content…
At the beginning of the second section, Wesley began to investigate whether Frank raped Marie or not. After he got some evidences showing that Frank raped some Indian girls before, he still couldn’t believe Frank’s crime. I think that’s because Frank is his brother. He loves him. He already had enough evidence to put him in jail, but he still needs to find more evidences to persuade himself. Between loyalty and justice, at that point, Wesley chose loyalty. By his partiality, Frank got time to murder Marie. After that happened, Wesley still refused to put Frank in jail; instead, he put Frank in the basement and Frank suicide at the end of the novel. In my opinion, if in the beginning, Wesley chose justice rather than loyalty---put Frank into jail, nobody needs to die. Marie will not be murdered; Frank will be punished by law. In this case, I think Wesley is not a responsible …show more content…
I can’t remember exactly, but pretty sure that his family name is Lee. At that time, Mr. Lee was the Chief Executive Officer for that company and he controlled average 1.5 billion dollars every year. Once, he united someone also working in the company, cheating on the Financial Report and moved part of the investment to their own account. In order to avoid being suspected, they transferred that money into the accounts which are in Hong Kong. Several months later, the Chief Finance Officer found the problem and reported to the police-officer. The accessory was arrested soon but Mr. Lee got the wind of the action and ran away to the Africa. Therefore, the policeman went to his home and asked his wife and father that whether they know where Lee is or not. They told a lie to the policeman, so it is unavoidable that after Lee was arrested, his wife and father also be

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