Not an American Dream (11/8)

Zitkala-Sa's writings are about her life on the reservation and then in the white man's world. Explore in 200-300 words how her story is (or is not) one of the American Dream coming true. Use a specific sentence from the text to prove your point and quote it in your posting. ANALYZE the text; don't summarize.
"Then I lost my spirit. Since they day I was taken from my mother I had suffered extreme indignities.  People had straed at me.  I had been tossed about in the air like a wooden puppet.  And now my long hair was shingled like a coward's!  In my anguish I moaned for my mother, but no one came to comfort me.  Not a soul reasoned quietly with me, as my mown mother used to do; not I was only one of many little animals driven by a hearder."  I do not believe Zitkala-Sa's story about being in the white mans world is an American Dream come true.  First off, she is forced to go be in the white man's world and being forced to do something is not what the American Dream is about.  She is taught nothing but is expected to understand this language that she does not speak and follow rules she does not understand.  The American Dream is about feeling like you are apart of something and that you belong, like you are making a difference.  Zitkala-Sa does not feel this way about the situation she is in.  She feels excluded, misunderstood, and controlled; almost like she is owned by the pale face people.  They cut her hair to make her more like the white people and they punish her for things she does not understand that she did wrong.  Her only small victories that are some what a representation of the American Dream is when she break the jar while smashing the turnips so none can be served for dinner.  It is her way of being in control of something in her world, which is a small part of the American Dream, being able to control your world.  Also, when she returns to the reservation she still is not living the American Dream because she does not feel like she belongs "even nature seemed to have no place for me. I was neither a wee girl nor a tall girl; neither a wild Indian not a tame one. This deplorable situation was the effect of my brief course in the East, and the unsatisfactory "teenth" in a girl's years."  She return now and is able to read and write, she has some "American" ways about her which makes her different from her people and not able to fit in with her own people.  Zitkala-Sa does not experience the American Dream in either situation she encounters in both the worlds she lives in.