ction... facts. The seeing of the story as a cause for alarm rather than a droll anecdote or a piece of curious information is evidence of values we already hold, of judgments already made, of facts already perceived as facts." (731)
This statement is a very strong statement of blame and judgment. Jane Tompkins of "Indians": Textualism, Mortality, and the Problem of History have put forth the most common problem faced by many people around the world. We have made up stories to make the so called factual past acceptable, interesting and appealing to the common people. It is not necessarily true that every time something is said it has to be a fact. The biggest example to this is that history differs from book to boo
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