The work of Handsome Lake How America was discovered is a fiction that bears more ideological and precaution character for a reader. The story of a white preacher who once met the Creator telling him about a country where people would be cruel and corrupt because of money greed and amorality is a sort of real status quo in the United States since its foundation. A description of people living previously on the continent and having no bad habits is run across the description of merely the same place which was described in the autobiographical excerpt of Thomas Jefferson. In his autobiographical data, there is one place where he describes the beliefs of Indians about the primordial settlement of the American continent by means of “ancestors who came down from the sky as birds or who married mythical animals and shining celestial beings” (Lauter & Yarborough, p. 480). It is quite close to a theme in Lakes narration where the Creator depicts the American land and people on it. These two works are aimed to single out the sense of morality which was so trendy within the representatives of the Enlightenment Era and to find the reasons and solutions by means of a reader’s further evaluation of what was the American continent and towards what state it appears to be nowadays. In both cases, it is outlined that previously settled people wanted to maintain the generation continuity in the future with preservation of cultural peculiarities which were broken due to white invaders, who brought their “cards, money, fiddle, whiskey, and blood corruption” which spoiled the land and people living on it (Lauter & Yarborough, p. 364).
Works cited
Lauter , Paul & Yarborough, Richard. Heath Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 2. Houghton Mifflin Company; 4 edition, 2001