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Shout it Out!

Shout it Out! Lent 1A 2017, Rob Gieselmann 1. In Michael Punke’s novel, The Revenant , Pawnee Indians attack and capture the protagonist, Hugh Glass , first with arrows, shooting him in the leg, and then with a rock weapon, bashing his skull. Glass blacks out . When he wakes-up , he finds he is shackled , hands and feet, and the Pawnee tribe is watching him from a stone’s throw away. He knows he is going to die. So Glass turns onto his side in a way they cannot see his subtle movements - He pulls a cinnabar rock he has saved in his shirt pocket. With the rock, he paints his face red.   Next he rolls onto his stomach – it is a gesture the Pawnee take to be religious , like a prayer before death. The chief sends two braves over to Glass – And when they get within several feet of him – Glass jumps up on his feet – ignoring the sharp pain from the arrow   – and faces the braves, and the entire tribe . The Pawnee are shocked – for there Glass stands