Joe the Painter and the Deer Island Massacre: A Tale of Heritage and Redemption

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Joe, a painter with Native American heritage, decides to join a town pageant to showcase the history with First Nations. With Chief's help, they prepare diligently, only to face disapproval during the performance. The story unfolds with a touch of irony, highlighting Joe's internal conflicts and eventual reflection on pride and fondness among characters.

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Joe the Painter and the Deer Island Massacre: Stort Story Devices By Hannelie and Nicole

Introduction Although Joe the Painter is a well-known man around town, he is not particularly liked by anyone except aa man he calls "Chief" due to his Native American heritage. Plot

Plot Initiating incident Joe Tells Chief about his plans to join the town pageant.

Plot Conflict Joe's pageant is about the town's history with the First Nations people, and he asks Chief for himself and his family to be in it.

Rising Action Chief reaches out to his family to be in Joe's pageant, and they begin to rehearse day after day until the pageant. Plot

Climax The story reaches its peak as the time comes to perform the pageant. In the end, the audience does not applaud, and the mayor seems to be displeased. Plot

Falling Action After the pageant, Chief and his family stayed on Deer island for the night, and Chief did not see Joe for several days. Plot

Conclusion Chief finally sees Joe again, and they reflect on the pageant proudly. The story ends as it began, with the narrator expressing his fondness for Joe. Plot

Irony Verbal irony "Smoking just touches me wrong though I suppose I got a few bad habits too." (King 100) This is ironic because Joe is bothered by other people's bad habits, but then continues on to display bad habits of his own. "Howdy Betty, god you look like hell. Did you relapse?" (King 100) This is another example of having an intention behind his words that does not come across correctly.

Static: Joe Dynamic: Chief Flat: Mayor Round: Joe Stock: Marvin Booster (the bartender) Types of Characters

Symbol Everyone together on Deer Island symbolized unity and all of the First Nations people being brought together. "The first night on Deer Island was soft and quiet. Some of us got propped up... and listened to my father and uncle tell stories. All the kids were sprawled on top of each other like a litter of puppies." (King 110) Joe's thought that First Nations people symbolizes the stereotyping that Native people face, and represents how the first Nations people are often misunderstood. "They all got crew cuts! Hell, we can't have Indians with crew cuts." (King 112)

"It was his civic spirit that seemed to get him in the most trouble." (King 102) This was foreshadowing to how the mayor would react to Joe's play. The mayor said he did not like Joe's play because it was "inapppprooooriate." (King 120) Foreshadowing

Conflict Person vs Society Joe vs townspeople "Joe the Painter knew almost everyone in town and everyone knew Joe and all of the people who knew Joe as well as I knew Joe didn't like him." (King 99) Person vs Person - Joe vs the Mayor "The mayor was looking red and snapped around to whisper something to his wife." (King 119) "'That was a good pageant, wasn t it?'... 'The mayor didn t like it.'" (King 120)

The theme the author is trying to portray is that there is two sides to every story, which is shown when the townspeople are shocked by another perspective of their history. It shows how historically, the stories we hear are written by the victorious side, which leads to the truth of some events being unknown. Theme

Moral The importance of respecting other cultures and traditions is a key moral of the story. "I watched a baseball game with [Joe] once that was played in Montreal and he stood when they played the Canadian National Anthem." (King 102)

Effectivity of devices used The prose' used in this story helped to accurately portray emotion the author intended. They assist in keeping the reader engaged until the end of the story in an attention-grabbing way. While the story is fictitious, the moral of the story and life lessons still shine through as an important value.