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Captain Kidd … read analysis of Reconstruction. Cite This Page. Home About Story Contact Help. Her remaining relatives, an aunt and uncle, have sent 50 dollars to pay for her transport home. The Captain remembers that Britt had once rescued his own wife and two children from captivity, a feat no one can truly understand. Still, he seems reluctant to take on responsibility for the young girl. Throughout the novel, Captain Kidd will be one of the only people to recognize that she suffers from both these losses, not just the first one.

He suggests that Britt Johnson hand off Johanna to another family or the army, but Britt says these options have already failed. Captain Kidd muses that it might be better for Johanna to stay with the Kiowa, but Britt shakes his head. The Kiowa have realized that possessing white captives incurs repercussions from the increasingly powerful military, and they themselves traded her for blankets and silver.

It also demonstrates the various ethnicities and cultural contexts at play even within a single state, pushing back against ideas of the United States as an ethnic and ideological monolith.

Britt remarks that his son has changed much since captivity. After only a year of captivity, he had assimilated to the Kiowa way of life and was reluctant to come home at first. Seeing that Captain Kidd is persuaded, Britt Johnson takes out a dollar gold piece and gives it to him. He warns her to be careful with Johanna , and the young girl slides down in the wagon and pulls her blanket over her head, as if tired of being watched.

Throughout this exchange, Johanna has remained silent and passive. But her gesture now shows her determination to keep her distance and desire not to seem helpless or dependent.

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