Hope for Melal

The book Melal by Robert Barclay takes place in 1981 in The marsh wholly Islands of the South peace-loving. The community known as the Marsh tout ensembleese are the natives to these islands. Overtime new(prenominal) socialisations began to settle on these islands also, such as the Spanish, Japanese, and Ameri fag ends. Out of these three cultures the Americans were the some domineering and devastating to the Marshallese people. The Americans took over the Marshallese native land and forced all of them to live on ace island in deplorable conditions. The Marshallese had their freedom revoked from them they and then had to live under the Americans rules.Two of the Marshallese char solveers in this falsehood who believes strongly in withholding some(prenominal) of the native Marshallese custom and traditions are Jebro and Rujen. These two characters portray great apply that they can sustain these of the essence(predicate) aspects of their culture. swear starts with accept in something one desires can happen. Sparks of hold are revealed throughout this story through the character Jebro. Jebros hope comes from believing that he can continue on the traditions of his native culture, so that the traditions will not be lost.He believes he can do this by teaching important Marshallese traditions to younger Marshallese, and Americans who take an interest in learning. Maybe on one of your days off I can swing by with a boat and well go fish. The rules say were not supposed to head over here, but Im sure well get outside with it. You can show me how you knew where that school was gonna come up. Or did you use that thaumaturgy finger of yours? Jebro nodded, smiling now. Okay we go fishing sometime, but if you want my secrets that are worth more than any boat you give meHe laughed (Barclay 253). I think this passage in the story shows that Jebro is realizing that not all Americans like Travis, are bad people. This gives him hope that he can suffer to teach Americans about what is important to the Marshallese natives, so they can come to break-dance understand some of the traditions that the natives value. Rujens hope in this story is derived from him last acting on his beliefs in Part 3 of the story. This took place afterward Rujen tried to integrate for such a long time with the Americans, which escape Rujen into such an empty ife he could no longer take it. He finally snapped and realized that he is a Marshallese and should stop pretending to be something he is not. Yokwe, he said, he drove the knife down. That was when blood came up from the mouth of the mermaid on Good Friday, 1981 (Barclay 262). I think this is Rujens effort sign that he has belief that there is still hope for the Marshallese. Rujen performed this act of push downing the dolphin, because the Marshallese people believe that it is bad luck to not kill any dolphin that came into the lagoon.This is Rujens way of standing up for the traditions and culture he wa s brought up in. If Rujen did not perform this task, the Americans were going to make it a law that it was illegal to kill dolphins. The fact that Rujen got away with this task, gives all Marshallese people hope that their traditions can still be performed. The second sign of Rujens hope in this story is shown in the following passage, How could a Marshallese be breach on a Marshallese island? The ticket filled Rujen with an unbearable loathe of the ignorant man who had written it.He waved the ticket in front of Olys face, nearly slapping him with it. Maybe you better pay me fifty bucks You informer (Barclay 271). In this passage Rujen is standing up for the Marshallese people in hope of reclaiming the land that had been taken from them. I like it when boys like yours go trespassing on the outer islands. All boys should go if they have the chance, quite of on the dot lying around and drinking. He slapped Lazaruss knee. Maybe we all should go, Alfred said.We should go live on th ose islands and tell the Army to shoot their missiles at Ebeye instead Kinoj and the others, not laughing, seemed to be giving Alfreds proposal serious musical theme (Barclay 279). I think that this passage shows that a lot of the Marshallese agrees with Rujen. They have hope that if all the Marshallese stick together and try to take their land backside over, that they will be made. The Marshallese has real hope that they can believe in. Hope that there beliefs and traditions will be carried on for many generations.If they stick together, I think that they can be successful in gaining their lives back. I believe the Americans and Marshallese will find a earthy ground and live happily together, and share the land. They are two contrasting cultures, but many different cultures co-exist. People to have different beliefs and determine and we can all learn from one another. If in the South Pacific everyone was governed by the same laws, and was treated equally I feel that the case of life would drastically improve for the natives in that region.