Read the passage from Pushing the Bear. QUATY LEWIS

Of all the trees who spoke it was the pine who said we would go, covering its needles with its hands. The ground seemed to rumble loose our hold. "A whole nation would move," my husband said, sweating though it was no longer hot. Since the 1835 New Echota Treaty, the U. S. government had been trying to push the Cherokee to the new territory. A few had gone, but the rest of us wouldn't leave. Last summer, the soldiers began internment in stockades, but the heat sickened the Cherokee, and we knew they would wait until fall. Each day I looked for soldiers on the road.

MARITOLE

The rumble of the wagon startled me from blackness. I sat up. Knobowtee walked beside the wagon. "Some of the Cherokee have already gone west," I heard the men say. "How many trails have there been?"

I saw that Anna Sco-so-tah held my baby. "You can't take up the whole wagon." She pushed my feet with hers. The wagon was crowded, and I tried to make room for the others. Kee-un-e-ca and the widow Teehee of the Blue clan. Lacey Woodard of the Long Hair clan. Quaty Lewis, Wolf clan. Mrs. Young Turkey, Blind Savannah clan. The wheels jolted over the ground, and I held to the side.

The wagon rattled loose someone's voice. Was it Mrs. Young Turkey? "I seen a bug in the crock. It walk around. Around. It couldn't get out. Har. That's us now. That bug. The trees grow up like sides of a crock. Taller than us. Umgh. Soldiers make us walk in the circle in our heads. We're not getting out."

I looked at Knobowtee as he walked beside the wagon. He seemed a stranger to me.

How does the use of multiple points of view affect the reader’s interpretation?

The women’s perspectives show that the Cherokee people felt anxious, whether they tried to stay or were forced to leave immediately.
The women’s perspectives show that they were cynical about being able to resist and thought that they had to comply.
Quaty Lewis’s perspective shows why the soldiers came to Cherokee lands, and Maritole’s perspective tells what happened once they did.
Quaty Lewis’s and Maritole’s perspectives show how the Cherokee who chose to stay were not as affected emotionally by the soldiers as those who left.