Read the two passages from Pushing the Bear. Passage 1: MARITOLE I tried to follow Knobowtee, but the road kept going sideways. I walked like I was my grandmother before she died, when her knees wouldn’t hold. I heard the soldiers laugh. "Walk straight." Knobowtee carried the baby and looked at me. "We don't have any choice. There'll be a wagon ahead. You and the baby can ride." I looked back at the cabin, but we had passed the first bend in the wagon ruts. My grandmother's scissors and her bone hairpin and shell beads were on my dresser. The bed my father helped Knobowtee make. The nutting stone and pestles he gave us when we married. Sometimes I still heard my grandmother's voice in the cabin. I couldn’t leave. The sky passed before my eyes, and I felt myself hit the hard ground. Passage 2: ANNA SCO-SO-TAH The birds called to me across the trees. Even the water spoke. "ᎤᏧᏓᎦᎤᏧᏓᎦ," I told the women bitterly in the wagon. The soldiers came down the road and told me to leave. My legs wouldn't walk. The soldiers grabbed my arms and held me up. The sky was brown as the hen blood on my boots. I tried to call to my neighbor, but my voice cackled. For a moment I thought I was a hen. I flopped on the ground. My brown feathers in the dust. How are the two points of view similar? Both women are so injured that they fall to the ground. Both women agree to leave when the men say it is safe to do so. Both women are emotionally devastated by having to leave home. Both women hide in their cabins and decide not to leave with everyone.
