Unfair Gov’t

In “The Trial of Thomas Builds-the-Fire” and “This is What it Means …” the examples of government portrayed are unjust and oppressive. They take advantage of Thomas’ need to tell stories against him and get him to indict himself in the trial. Constantly leading him on to continue telling tales. “Mr. Builds-the-Fire, you do admit, willingly, that you murdered two soldiers in cold blood and with premeditation?” said the cross examiner, and that was enough to get him to admit to a crime he did not commit which shows just how oppressive the government toward anything they don’t like. They didn’t need any evidence to put Thomas behind bars, just the words of a storyteller.