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- On the day of the wedding, Johanna sits nervously in her bedroom next to Captain Kidd. Addressing him as “Kontah,” she asks what “the best rules for being married” are. He lightly warns her not to scalp anyone or steal chickens, but says she will figure everything else out herself.
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Feb 10, 2021 · But the girl has an important life lesson for Kidd, one that he remembers in the film's final moments: “To move forward, you must first remember.” In the final sequence, Kidd does exactly by saying goodbye to his wife and returning to Castroville to save Johanna.
Feb 1, 2021 · Johanna And Captain Kidd's Search For Home. Johanna and Kidd are both without a family. Johanna lost her original family when they were murdered by the Kiowa tribe.
Captain Kidd said, She was a captive. An Indian captive. We can’t have this, said the young woman. She held on to the rope bucket handle with both hands. I don’t care if she’s a Hottentot. I don’t care if she’s Lola Montez. She was parading her charms out there in the river like a Dallas huzzy.
Johanna brings Captain Kidd ’s attention back to the present by making him explain the different words for shoe and foot. She tells him to stand up, sit down, and clap his hands until he’s weary and stops the game.
Captain Kidd returns to his home in San Antonio, but eventually decides to return and check on Johanna. After realizing that her relatives are treating her like a slave, he takes her with him and formally adopts her into his family.
- Paulette Jiles
- 2016
Dec 25, 2020 · Over the course of News of the World, Kidd's relationship with Johanna helps to transform him into a man with something to care about again. He sees Johanna as not just a challenge...
Paulette Jiles’s novel, News of the World, tells the tale of 72-year-old Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd and 10-year-old Johanna Leonberger's journey from Wichita, Texas to Castroville, Texas in 1870, and how that journey would forever and drastically change the course of each of their lives.
