I cannot entirely agree with you that the salmon is the
protagonist because I feel that it is not fighting anything. I feel like society, or “the system”, has
already broken down and gone at this point the poem. I believe the salmon serves more of a symbol
rather than character. But I am not
entirely sure what it represents.
On another point, this poem did not really feel like a
dystopian poem. Clearly the poem
describes the end of the world, but at the end, it doesn’t really give off that
hopeless and despair feeling of usual dystopian poems. The ending seems quite happy; all the Native Americans
gather and have a party. Since at that
this point, the world is going to end and there is nothing that can be done,
you might as well enjoy yourself.
I also feel like there is some meaning to the salmon telling
the three stories, but again, I’m not really sure what they mean.
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