Indian Horse

2. – Saul began to feel bitterness toward the priests and the system.
3. – “The cries at night filled the dormitory like ghosts.”
7. – “There was no future there. Just survival.”
8. – Many students lost their identities and will to fight back.
9. – The children endured beatings, hunger, and emotional pain daily.
11. – Saul learned to block out emotion to survive the abuse.
12. – Saul felt there was no way out of the school or its grip.
13. – “There was no softness in the school. Everything was hard.”
14. – The staff watched the boys with constant suspicion, never trusting them.

1. – What was promised as education turned out to be control and cruelty.
4. – Saul and the others witnessed constant abuse that scarred them for life.
5. – “We were kept from speaking our language, from each other, from ourselves.”
6. – Some children stopped trying to live, worn down by suffering.
9. – The children had no voice; every action was punished or controlled.
10. – Saul describes feeling numb, hollowed by constant abuse.