Saint Marie Lazarre's Love Medicine: Grandma Kashpaw

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Love Medicine, chapter two is about Saint Marie. This chapter took place in 1934 and its about Marie Lazarre who eventually becomes Grandma Kashpaw. In this chapter, Marie was a fourteen year old girl who thinks of herself as an ignorant girl. Early in the novel we read that Marie was very interested in Catholicism to the point that she even spent most of her time at the local mission training and hung out with the nuns. Theres a lot going on in Marie’s head religion-wise when she was a kid but it was not really about her love or passion of Jesus. Marie wanted to join the Sacred Heart Convent because she wanted for the people to accept her and not being ignore her presence regardless of her lineage. Marie was super defensive about having some

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