The Thick Dark Fog

In English class we watched a documentary called “The Thick Dark Fog.” The documentary was 

informational and it was about Native Americans who were taken from their families at young 

ages and were forced to forget their culture and become American. The American's motto was “Kill the 

Indian save the American.” The purpose of this wrongful doing was that they were trying to 

make everyone the same, stamp out Native culture and language. They were making a judgment 

saying their culture was better by brainwashing the young Native Americans. They were 

replacing their Native language and culture with the American way of life. 

Walter Littlemoon in the documentary was already of older age but he was still full of sadness about the loss 

of his culture and the wrong-doing of the American people. After a while at the boarding school 

16 miles away from where he lived, he forgot what who his mom was and what she looked like. 

His mother snuck into the boarding school to visit him, and he didn’t recognize her at all until she 

was walking away but that was too late because she was too far away already.

 In the boarding school they were punished for disobeying by withholding food and beat them. He was full 

of anger due to the fact that they were separating him from his family and making him learn a new 

way of life he was not a custom to. This was wrongful and harsh of  the American Government to do to 

Native American children. The children had nothing to do and were not asked to be in this matter. How 

would you like it if one day the government did this to your children?

What Failure Has Done To Me

Failure has played a big role in my life unfortunately. In high school I went through a rebel phase 

and decided to drop out of school. I decided it was more fun to go out every day, drink, party, 

and live it up. I was out of school for around 6 months and I realized I had made a mistake so 

that was a failure in my life.

 I went to charter school and I no longer have that failure in my 

life. Failure is a big deal in my mind because I never fail on what I put myself to do. I always 

succeed on everything I set my mind on and I achieve my goals. I believe there’s a certain type 

of motivation that makes you get back up or stay down like in the video we watched all the 

famous failures had the motivation to get up and better themselves for good and make something 

out of their life to prove to the people who said they couldn't that they did. Many people are 

ignorant and could care less what you're going through they just want to see you down and want 

to find a way to bring you down to fail but, don't give them the satisfaction of seeing you fail it's 

not worth it. 

I've been through it before and I got up for the better I want to become something 

in the future. I want to get myself out the hood and become successful in life. To achieve that I 

first have to go through things that will make me want it more and more and that will keep me 

fighting until I achieve what I want. I have what it takes to do what I put my mind to and my soul  

into Do you?