Response to "Alluwee Brown, and the Tragic End of Unlearned 'Jim'"

Well, on the web I found zipp-oh on William Trenton Canup besides the fact that he was the author of “Alluwee Brown, and the Tragic End of Unlearned ‘Jim’”. I thought he told a very interesting story (certainly kept me reading) and I quite liked it. From our discussion on Friday morning, I continued to think about who Jim was…Indian, mix or white. I think that Jim is a white man who came from the states to the nation. He has “manly blue eyes”…to me that says he is probably a white man and not a Native American. Alluwee wasn’t really given much depth and I saw her as a beautiful, but shallow character in the story for she seemed a bit aloof with Jim—probably because of her schooling. It was frustrating for me to read that Alluwee reached a point where she no longer looked up to Jim, but appeared to regard him as inferior in knowledge—poor Jim. The end was tragic, as the title rightly states, but I am glad that Jim dies in the arms of Alluwee and not outside by himself. Too bad I can’t find info on William Trenton Canup because it would be very interesting to hear more about his life and when this story might have taken place in relationship to his life’s happenings. Good story.