The book "Love Medicine" has a time span from 1934-1984, where it draws its attention on a dozen different main characters lives which all interconnect with one another. The book follows a circular pattern with it stating in 1981 backtracking its way to the 30s and then finally ending where it started in the 80s. It begins with the death of June Morrissey and while she does pass away at the beginning she has a prominent role in the story. Almost every main character takes a turn narrating the story throughout this story which takes place in a 50 year period. Louis Erdrich constructs the book with each chapter being a standalone short story that when all of them come together they relate to one another forming the entire novel. This is why “Love
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The separate stories are told in fragments and you don’t get a full history of each family, that’s when educated guesses take place. The reader must interpret some of the stories based on what they are told. They slowly build our understanding of each of them. It’s a slow build but at the end of the book you finally understand everyone’s full story. For example a good amount of stories show, in pieces, the love triangular between, Lulu Lamartine, Nector Kashpaw, and Marie Lazarre. So how the book is set up does make it a bit confusing since you get a different adventure of one of the characters’ lives. It jumps around not only with the time periods but also with a different characters point of view just about every chapter. You have to pay close attention to what’s happening or you’ll miss something, especially with there being so many different characters and how they all intertwine with one another. The unusual structure of the story does make it more difficult to understand but provides a different way of looking at each character. The narratives follow one another with an unfixed timeline, jumping around in the story. The perspectives also can vary from 1st person to 3rd. The way the novel is formatted is similar to that of a traditional Native storytelling and
The separate stories are told in fragments and you don’t get a full history of each family, that’s when educated guesses take place. The reader must interpret some of the stories based on what they are told. They slowly build our understanding of each of them. It’s a slow build but at the end of the book you finally understand everyone’s full story. For example a good amount of stories show, in pieces, the love triangular between, Lulu Lamartine, Nector Kashpaw, and Marie Lazarre. So how the book is set up does make it a bit confusing since you get a different adventure of one of the characters’ lives. It jumps around not only with the time periods but also with a different characters point of view just about every chapter. You have to pay close attention to what’s happening or you’ll miss something, especially with there being so many different characters and how they all intertwine with one another. The unusual structure of the story does make it more difficult to understand but provides a different way of looking at each character. The narratives follow one another with an unfixed timeline, jumping around in the story. The perspectives also can vary from 1st person to 3rd. The way the novel is formatted is similar to that of a traditional Native storytelling and