New Regulations Were Necessary.

The Pioneers focuses on describing the changes that occurred after the arrival of immigrants. It depicts how the land and the natives who were originally here were affected. I believe as the story unfolds we feel bad for Natty and the other natives and we take their side because we found it wrong that new people were unjustly coming and trying to dictate how they were to live their lives. But, at the same time I do side with Marmaduke and the rest of the civilized people. If we take a look at Turner’s article he describes that when the immigrants first arrived they did conform to the native’s lifestyle and it was little by little that they began to modify and make changes that would benefit all, or at least what they believed would be of benefit to all. Thus, Marmaduke had a reason to implement these new rules, they were ultimately for what he believed to be good. He was not trying to change what they were doing but how they were going about doing them. It was the clash between these two different cultures that drove for all the changes to occur, they were necessary. Although the changes that were made may seem wrong to some people I believe that we need to understand that it was simply their way of viewing the world and how it was supposed to be running. The change of culture is something that has constantly been occurring in every society that there is and is simply what was occurring after Marmaduke’s arrival.