Louise Erdrich

all the Indian tribes can cause the perception of a Native American to change. Another example can be found in the short poem, “Dear John Wayne,” written by Louise Erdrich. This poem describes a situation where a family of Native Americans are at a movie and are watching John Wayne, a famous cowboy, kill a group of American Indians. Erdrich sets the story during a movie to show that Hollywood and changed the image of an Indian. The Indians in Erdrich’s poem are described to be killers. However,…

“War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over”, a quote by William Tecumseh Sherman, that touches lightly on the wars in both “The Red Convertible”, a short story by Louise Erdrich, and “The Return”, a short story written by Ngugi wa Thiong’o. In both these stories the focus characters, Henry in “The Red Convertible” and Kamau in “The Return”, are prisoners of war and have dealings with suicide. However, the two men’s families have different…

staring at him and judging him, and he ended up wrapping it in a brown bag and lodging it deep inside his closet. The relationship of siblings as a rule keeps going forever; however in Louise Erdrich's short story "The Red Convertible", the relationship of the fundamental characters Lyman and Henry goes ahead. Erdrich takes her group of onlookers through the encounters these siblings face and how they should settle that their relationship has changed. Realizing that it will no doubt never be…

Americans starting in the 1912’s till even today when it comes to political issues throughout history with Americans.whether it is fighting for their land, watching their loved ones die from disease while moving, or even losing trust from love ones. Louise Erdrich helps explain to readers what Natives actually went through in the Novel Tracks. Nanapush and many other characters tell us how losing their land to the White Americans created many problems for them. Many of the characters go…

“If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.” This quote by Yoshida Shoin, a Japanese monk and intellectual, suggests that the mind can take more punishment than the body. While some scholars interpret this saying as relating to the afterlife, it can also be affiliated with matters of existence of demise. After exploring several texts about survival, it is evident that surviving grueling conditions takes more…

Being emotionally captive is when feelings and decisions are blurred, you can’t make rational decisions. In Louise Erdrich’s poem, the woman whom she refers to is unable to make a decision about whether or not she identifies with the Indians and their way of life. At one instance in the poem the woman said, “I hid my face in my dress, fearing He would burn us all, but that soon passed” (Erdrich). This shows that the woman’s mental block ruins her ability to understand the Indians actions, but…

what to say. The more I thought the more a few stories in particular kept popping up in my head. The stories I couldn’t stop thinking about were “The Gun” by Mark Haddon, “Good Faith” by Colleen Morrissey, “Trust” by Dylan Landis and “Nero” by Louise Erdrich. Each one of these stories brings up ethical issues on their own but the one that I…

We are also told that Native Americans were put on reservations and their women and land were taken away. In the book, John James Mauser is a representation of colonization. In “Beyond Colonization: Polyphony, Alterity, Humor and Wisdom in Louise Erdrich’s Four Souls”. Reavey mentions that “colonialism is structured by the logic of sexual violence. In Four Souls, Mauser sort of does this with Fleur by begetting a son. He does this so he can trap her and so he will not be killed in the hands…

for Sympathy”, written respectively by William Faulkner and Louise Erdrich, address this issue. “Barn Burning” outlines the way in which people make the conscious decision to either hold onto their obsessions or break free from the repetitive cycle they’re in. “I Am a Mad Dog Biting Myself for Sympathy” looks into the way an individual views their own choices, specifically how their state of mind results in their view of free will. Erdrich and Faulkner each use setting and character in order to…

What is Deviance? Deviance is often described as doing something that does not follow social norms. It can be positive or negative. In the book, “ The Round House” by Louise Erdrich, deviance is portrayed throughout the book in several negative ways. It is especially used against the main character 's mother named Geraldine when she is brutally raped by a white male. This act of violence brought out a main theme of this book which is gender inequality. In short, this novel shows the deviant act…