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Valentine’s Days
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Night Watchman, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Power, Solidarity, and Community Action
Oppression and Supposed Good Intentions
Humor and Pain
Sex, Violence, and Gender
Agency and Exploitation
Summary
Analysis
Thomas carries his rifle on the trail to his father’s house, hoping to scare out a partridge or deer. When he reaches his father’s house, he tells his father about the bill coming from the government and says that the government aims to take away the treaties. His father, Biboon, says that because they’re targeting other tribes as well, it might be possible to fight it as a larger group.
