Chapter one is titled, “The World’s Greatest Fishermen”. According to the book of Matthew, verse 19, Jesus said, “Come, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Following this, the chapter opens with, “The morning before Easter Sunday, June Kashpaw was walking down the clogged main street of oil boomtown Williston, North Dakota, killing time before the noon bus arrived that would take her home” (1). The opening sentence is an example of foreshadowing. A skilled storyteller, Erdrich interweaves present and future events, with through stories that are not necessarily told in chronological order, however there truths are revealed to the reader at the end of the
Chapter one is titled, “The World’s Greatest Fishermen”. According to the book of Matthew, verse 19, Jesus said, “Come, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Following this, the chapter opens with, “The morning before Easter Sunday, June Kashpaw was walking down the clogged main street of oil boomtown Williston, North Dakota, killing time before the noon bus arrived that would take her home” (1). The opening sentence is an example of foreshadowing. A skilled storyteller, Erdrich interweaves present and future events, with through stories that are not necessarily told in chronological order, however there truths are revealed to the reader at the end of the