The west can be looked at in many different ways, but no matter how it is looked at they all have similarities to each other. In the stories of Little Big Man and The Virginian, this can be used to look deeper into the meanings of these stories. Depending on whom a person talks to the West can be view in many different ways. It can be looked at through the eyes of the white cowboy or it can be looked at through the eyes if a great Indian leader. When either of them speak or write their stories will be different, but it is what is behind that story which makes them similar to each other.
Any truly roguish protagonist novel is sarcastic, and Berger makes an effort to detonate assured Western folklore in Little Big Man. The heroes of the story are hard to tell if they are heroic at all. Kit Carson refuses hard-luck Jack a handout, Wyatt Earp knocks him out for belching, and Wild Bill Hickok is a weary, gloomy, suspicious man. Berger makes fun of naïve reception of the clichés of......

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Title: The Virgian And Little Big Man
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Approximate Pages: 7 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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