In the book The Round House by Louise Erdrich, one thing that I really liked was the plot in which the story took place. The novel took place in an Indian reserve in South Dakota on the year of 1988. This plot interests me because, in contrast to Saratoga, it is poor, people are always hungry and the city is still much undeveloped. Plus, it also amuses me how people lived in 1988 were a lot different from cities in the present. Another thing that I appreciated about the novel was the look into the life of a person whose family member was sexually assaulted. Since I have never known anybody who has been sexually assaulted, the novel teaches me how life continues after the attack as well as the habits of the victim. Most of the first third of
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• Geraldine, Joe’s mother, may feel shell shocked from the event taking place.
• She doesn’t want to relive the attack by talking about it to anyone.
• She thinks that her attacker will try to finish what he started by killing her.
2) What do Joe and his friends have in common when they are searching for evidence?
• They are friends that believe in doing what’s right and finding …show more content…
The air was heavy with her breath, as if she’d suck out the oxygen. She kept the shades pulled. I wanted to set the sandwich down and run” (87). This quote symbolizes Joe’s mother as more of a corpse rather than a living person. When Erdrich describes the room with a “fusty odor” and the “shades pulled,” the reader envisions a small, dark room that can even be mistaken for a tomb. I believe that the author presents Joe’s mother this way to display how unbearable life is after sexual assault that they would have to live in a sort of isolation, trying not to remember nor relive the awful moment of the attack. In the quote “I wanted to set the sandwich down and run,” it shows Joe, her own son, wanting to leave the dead room that his mother inhabited and to stay away from the room as much as he
• Geraldine, Joe’s mother, may feel shell shocked from the event taking place.
• She doesn’t want to relive the attack by talking about it to anyone.
• She thinks that her attacker will try to finish what he started by killing her.
2) What do Joe and his friends have in common when they are searching for evidence?
• They are friends that believe in doing what’s right and finding …show more content…
The air was heavy with her breath, as if she’d suck out the oxygen. She kept the shades pulled. I wanted to set the sandwich down and run” (87). This quote symbolizes Joe’s mother as more of a corpse rather than a living person. When Erdrich describes the room with a “fusty odor” and the “shades pulled,” the reader envisions a small, dark room that can even be mistaken for a tomb. I believe that the author presents Joe’s mother this way to display how unbearable life is after sexual assault that they would have to live in a sort of isolation, trying not to remember nor relive the awful moment of the attack. In the quote “I wanted to set the sandwich down and run,” it shows Joe, her own son, wanting to leave the dead room that his mother inhabited and to stay away from the room as much as he