In Hugh Garner's One Two Three Little Indians, the negative side of power is represented through the harsh judgements of the people in their surroundings. The less significant characters in the story play a massive role to the end result of the story using the very powerful tool of stereotypes, that can very easily effect the play out of any story. This represents the negative side of power because, even if the effects aren't on an immense scale, like they are in the majority of books, they still had a very significant impact on the main character, even if the characters using stereotypes to create this chain reaction of unfortunate events don't play big roles in the story...
... The use of stereotypes is a very strong connection that is applicable to most any situation from a real life, every day confrontation to a novel or story, causing either problems or conflict, or making a story less choppy by utilizing these stereotypes as an advantage to avoid unnecessary details about a character.
In the case for power, stereotypes GENERALLY play a negative roll, hindering a characters ability to proceed with a solution to his/her problem, but usually overcomes this obstacle in the end. With the many faces that power uses, in this particular situation, the usage could be both negative or positive, and it is one aspect that readers can most relate to. In some cases during the story, the stereotypes and racism is being used as a tool by the main character, Tom, to attract more sales from Caucasian customers. Later on, the same stereotypes and racism is a hindering to Tom, resulting in the death of his child because the Caucasian populous wouldn't help an Indian, so this poem portrays both sides of the power of stereotyping extremely well.
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