What is meaning of land of apples in chapter memories of childhood.
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Land of apples refers to the place where Zitkala-Sa had attended to school. However, due to the biblical associations of the fruit, it could also portend a loss of innocence and the loss of her native state in the partaking of the fruit of knowledge. The apple was referred to as the forbidden fruit of knowledge, the partaking of which led to Adam and Eve's banishment from the Garden of Eden.
Memories of childhood chapter contain two extracts from the lives of two different women - Zitkala-Sa and Bama.
In the first extract, 'The cutting off my long hair' the protagonist Zitkala-Sa is the victim of racial discrimination. However, due to weight in America, she doesn't get respect, dignity, and honor in school. She is forced to shingle out her long hair. She struggles and resists but at last, she dragged like an animal. In this extract, land of apples refers to a place of the school where Zitkala Sa attended. The biblical representation of fruit here can be referred to as the loss of innocence and the loss of native in order to take the fruit of knowledge. Here the apple is referred to as forbidden fruit of knowledge. As in the biblical representation when Adam and Eve were partaking the forbidden fruit of knowledge, it led to their banishment.