"Yellow Star: A Story of East and West" by Elaine Goodale Eastman is an early 20th-century story about Stella, called Yellow Star, an Indian girl starting a new chapter with a white family in New England. It's a journey of identity, belonging, and mixing cultures as Stella tries to find her place in a world that doesn't always welcome her background. In the village of Laurel, Stella’s life takes shape as she navigates acceptance and struggles in her new community. Coming from Dakota, she joins the kind Mrs. Waring and her stern sister, Miss Sophia. Getting ready for school, Stella is excited but worried about how her classmates will treat her. The story shows her desire to fit in while dealing with possible prejudices as an indigenous girl in a white community, paving the way to explore her identity.
Yellow Star: A Story of East and West
By Elaine Goodale Eastman
An adopted Indian girl faces challenges and prejudice as she learns to embrace who she is in a predominantly white New England town.
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About the AuthorElaine Goodale Eastman (1863–1953) and Dora Read Goodale (1866–1953) were American poets and sisters from Massachusetts. They published their first poetry as children still living at home, and were included in Edmund Clarence Stedman's classic An American Anthology (1900).
Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863–1953) and Dora Read Goodale (1866–1953) were American poets and sisters from Massachusetts. They published their first poetry as children still living at home, and were included in Edmund Clarence Stedman's classic An American Anthology (1900).
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