The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge Chapter 13: October 5, 1823 Quotes
The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge Chapter 13: October 5, 1823 Quotes
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Quote 1
[T]he trappers and the Sioux had been allies in the siege against the Arikara. Glass remembered that the Sioux had quit the fight in disgust over Colonel Leavenworth's tactics (1.13.22)
The Sioux and the Arikara have a long-standing beef, so the Sioux jump at the chance to fight their archenemies alongside the U.S. military. As they quickly learn, however, the Army has few ethics and little respect for their people as a whole. Talk about making a deal with the devil, huh?
Quote 2
The notion of burial had always struck him as stifling and cold. He liked the Indian way better, setting the bodies up high, as if passing them to the heavens. (1.13.20)
Like the Pawnee Indians he spent a year befriending, Glass prefers the symbolic release of a funeral pyre to the symbolic constraint of a buried grave. Makes sense. In this light, Captain Henry's insistence that the men dig a grave for Glass before he dies takes on a slightly darker tinge.
Quote 3
He filled the cup three times before the old woman stopped eating and fell asleep. He adjusted the blanket to cover her bony shoulders. (1.13.15)
Glass cooking a meal for the old, blind woman in the Arikara village is an important moment for many reasons. Not only does it show that Glass is a fundamentally good dude (we're pretty sure that Fitzgerald wouldn't have acted in the same way), but it also reveals that he holds a great deal of compassion for anyone who suffers. Remember that.