Stealing Indians (2016)
“The thin, white blanket of snow did nothing to hide the harshly institutional outlines of the school. If anything, it somehow made the institution look more colorless, more black and white, with intermediate shades of gray, as if the place were empty of life. The ground was gray, the roofs were gray, the barren shrubs and naked trees looked black or gray or some lifeless shade between, and the gray-black smoke billowing from the chimneys and smoke stacks was the only movement on the bleak, wint...ry scene.
Even the sky seemed steel-like and gloomy.
It was a sad and depressing time for many of the recently arrived children, who, traditionally at this time of the year, experienced their most intense bouts of homesickness. Only during the Christmas season would the gnawing pain be worse. It was the lonely month of abandonment when even the sports fields were forsaken—the football and baseball uniforms and equipment put away for the season, the track field and basketball courts buried under a thin mantle of crusted snow and ice.MoreLess
Even the sky seemed steel-like and gloomy.
It was a sad and depressing time for many of the recently arrived children, who, traditionally at this time of the year, experienced their most intense bouts of homesickness. Only during the Christmas season would the gnawing pain be worse. It was the lonely month of abandonment when even the sports fields were forsaken—the football and baseball uniforms and equipment put away for the season, the track field and basketball courts buried under a thin mantle of crusted snow and ice.MoreLess
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