Fleurs

king had forced him to take the day off, so he relaxed. Still, luxuriating in bed seemed decadent and unproductive, so he stretched, yanked back the hangings, and swung his long legs over the side of the bed. Just as he did that, without a knock, Fleur entered the chamber. “How are you?” Her eyes narrowed in concern as she approached. “Honestly, I feel like a new man. It’s a miracle what sleep can do.” Percival rubbed his eyes and stood. “But is it midday? It seems late.” “No, it’s late…

conceive it as out of reach, distant, and overwhelming, but not Fleur. Her views on the world are to go out and explore. She wants to understand what makes us different, to discover what separates others apart from the pack. Why do people there do this? Why is that a part of their culture? How did we end up here, and not there? These are some of the questions her mind occupies often when she’s not preoccupied with dance or school. For Fleur, there has always been dance; she has been dancing…

Nanapush is almost like the story teller about what really happened from the beginning to the end, Pauline is the character that does not have a connection with the land like the other Natives, and Eli goes through a family separation, and the same with Fleur but she also has gone through many other things. While reading Tracks, Erdrich helps show how the political issue of land loss during early American history destroys Native families and Tribes…

Later on during the story; Fleur becomes betrayed by her in-laws when they forced to take the money that they were suppose to use to pay for fleur land as well as her in-laws land. Instead, they use it entirely to pay for their own debt. Fleur loses all hope and reassurance and she eventually sends her daughter Lulu away to a government school. As suddenly trees start crashing down her…

Fleur spun away from him and stared into the fire. “Was it like that with the others? When we kissed, did you think of the other women you’d kissed or done more with?” “No.” How could she possibly think that? “It is so much more with you. Everything is so much more with you.” “How many others were there?” she asked. Percival hated answering this question. He did not want to hurt her. “Besides Caron, there was one other woman, but we were very young and foolish. It was once.” “I see.” Fleur…

religion. While Nanapush and Fleur demonstrate their adherence and racial pride to the traditional Ojibwa religion and culture by resisting assimilation into white culture, Pauline abandons the Ojibwa ways and tries to integrate herself into the Catholic religion, displaying her internalized racism while doing so. Family is normally the foundational unit, grounding nearly all cultures and religions. After both of their families are killed by the influenza epidemic, Fleur and Nanapush act like…

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term outsider means, “A person who does not belong to a particular circle, community, profession, etc.; a person originating from elsewhere. Also: a person unconnected with a matter; a person lacking special knowledge of a subject,” (OED). This outsider can also also be someone who is a different race or even someone who refuses to conform to the social norm. The term outsider derives from the English language, with its earliest recorded use being…

He plucked the dress from her hand, and it felt coarser than a sanding rock. He could not picture Fleur wearing something that would make her itch all day long. "Sell this dress," he told her gently. "I'll set up a time for you to see Queen Guinevere and she'll help you get a proper wedding dress. She's done it for other knights' wives." "The queen…

water” (145). After Fleur splits her meal with Lulu, Fleur gives the rest to Pauline. Pauline is so starved; Pauline drinks the soup down before she realized Fleur “had taken none for herself” (145). Pauline’s identity crisis is vital to understanding how the tension between Christianity and native religions complicates the formation of identity. When Pauline comes to impose Christianity on Fleur and her family, she receives charity in return. Pauline thinks she is helping Fleur, but her…

Tracks is set during the historical period when the Dawes Allotment Act of 1887. It is essentially a story about land and the lives of the people connected to it. As a result the earth is element associated with this novel. The objectives of the Dawes Act were to revive the Native Americans out of poverty, savage way of life and to stimulate them into unite the mainstream American society. It. allowed tracts of land that had been communal reservation property to be allotted to individual tribal…