The arrogance and ignorance of the human race has left the world completely denatured, with innumerable casualties as a result of society's cock eyed perspective. James Welch's novel Winter in the Blood, exhibits the journey of a disheartened narrator of no name through his indifferent life. His present and future life are indirectly ruled by his past in which his only two pillars of happiness, his brother Mose and father First Raise died. These traumatic …showed first 75 words of 825 total…

…showed last 75 words of 825 total…bad distance. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of indifference. Thus, what has become a macabre journey through life will eventually blow you away. The only way to cope with the cock eyed forces that now run the world is to fight against them and use them for support. In order to stand straight in a cock eyed world, one must "lean into the wind."