Fatty Legs Character Essay

Fatty Legs Character Essay In Fatty Legs is the story about the residential school that uses harsh methods and server punishments for indigenous children to make them forget about their culture. In this story Olemaun is the main character who starts going to the residential school. Even though she is still young child, she has a strong will and decided to go to the residential school to be able to read and write English. Before she started to go to the school she shows how she is a persistent person when she was trying to persuade her parents, but while she is in the school, she can be stubborn and immature as she tries to get revenge when teachers and others children did something bad to her. She is a persistent person. For example, if her father didn’t tell her any wonderful things he could learn at the school also he did want to let her go there, however, she still would like to go to the school to learn to read. it said “My heart would not give up hope.” (p8) And she said “I was not about to let another minute stand between men and my chance to learn” (P40) it shows how important it is for her. In addition, “I started with the simple readers we were given, tracking my finger over the words again and again, trying to sound them out and decipher what they meant” (p52-53) it shows even though she is still not able to understand, she tried over and over again. She is immature, when Katherine and the other Gwich’in girls commended to make Olemaun to work and she said “If I had a pocket of stones, I would shoot you with a storm of pebbles”, and when Katherine turned and pointed at Olemaun, she said “Fatty Legs” Olemaun called back them “Fatty Face” (p68) if it was adults they don’t do that so, it is childish she needs to always have a comeback. Also, after she burned her stockings she was wearing another one and it said “I strutted my sleek new legs past her desk.” She might know if nuns saw that she is going to be mad at her, however she did it on her purpose. Olemaun is stubborn. When she joined the school, children were given stockings from the nuns and they should wear them. However, Margaret doesn’t like it and she prefers the stockings that her mom bought for her. She has to take responsibility for wanting to go to the school, then she has to follow their rules even they are tough. In addition, one more thing that she didn’t follow nuns were when she stood in front of the microphone. She had to say things that was already prepared but she didn’t say at all. “And if you do not say what you are told to, we will cut the transmission,” The Raven informed me. (p64) In conclusion, Margaret is an unrelenting, infantile and obstinate person. Because she has strong wills and tries to do her best, however when she faced things that are difficult to go through, she would be immature and stubborn. In the end of the story, she experienced many things and grew up then she got back to her family all together.