In “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”, Sherman Alexie makes human nature seem like the enemy in the poem. He talks about the Sand Creek Massacre, where Native Americans were killed by soldiers. ”Of Sand Creek where 105 Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho women and children and 28 men were slaughtered by 700 heavily armed soldiers, led by Colonel Chivington and his Volunteers. Volunteers”. He relates this unpleasant clash to the story of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The story involves a man that is named Leatherface, in which he goes around mindlessly killing people with tools used to slaughter animals around his family farm, the main tool being a chainsaw. In the Sand Creek Massacre and in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, people were killed for no justifiable …show more content…
For example, “this country demands that particular sort of weakness: we must devour everything on our plates and ask for more”. There is no way to satisfy the need for blood. Some people might not literally kill others, but their actions can cause human beings to die internally. Once they reach the next level, they are eager for more. Another example in history with the Native Americans is the white families and soldiers taking over their reservations. Once they travelers had an acre of land, the group would grow and need more land to be sufficient. For example, the Trail of Tears involved the removal of American Indians off of the reservations that they have lived on for years. The need for more can quickly escalate to a complete takeover, which is what I think Alexie means when he states in the last line of the poem, “hunger becomes madness easily”. The author believes that the urge for more is inevitable because he has experienced it himself. “I have been in places where I understood tear his heart out and eat it whole. I have tasted rage and bitterness like skin between my teeth”. Alexie has been in a state of depression before, I believe, where he needed