Louise Erdrich

Page used the factor of appearance to define the term "flapper". To her, a "flapper" is a woman who is within the age limit (not quite a woman but also not a girl)that would have bobbed hair (the 'badge' of flapper hood) and stylish clothing that no decent women of earlier generations would have even thought about wearing. There were many different explanations of the flapper phenomenon. Some say that it's due to the fact that one-quarter to one-third of urban woman workers live alone, free…

Response Paper #3 In the film Thelma and Louise, two best friends plan a weekend road trip as a duo. This road trip was meant for Thelma and Louise to leave for a few days and have some time away from home. Thelma is a housewife whose husband bosses her around. Louise is a waitress, and who is Thelma’s best friend. Unfortunately during their roadtrip Louise and Thelma ran into some trouble. Due to the trouble that these ladies could face, their short trip away has turned into a long term getaway…

During the early twentieth century, the flapper style began to evolve. It involves women focusing more on their outward appearance and behavior to fit in with other ladies their age. This style seemed to be revolutionary for many women as they viewed the change in expectations for women as liberating. However, depending on the perspective the flapper style can be considered as either restricting or liberating for women. Contrasting perspectives are demonstrated through both Ellen Page’s article,…

Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-LeBrun, a Rococo era painter turned Neoclassical, was born in Paris on April 16, 1755. She lived to be eighty—seven as “one of the foremost portraitists in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century and during the first three decades of the nineteenth.” (NGA, web) (May, 1) Spanning a long career with over 600 paintings, Vigée-LeBrun is “characterized” and marveled “…as the much sought-after portraitist of not only European royalty and nobility, but also of notable…

Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-LeBrun, a Rococo era painter turned Neoclassical, was born in Paris on April 16, 1755. She lived to be eighty—seven as “one of the foremost portraitists in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century and during the first three decades of the nineteenth” (NGA, web) (May, 1). Spanning a long career with over 600 paintings, Vigée-LeBrun is “characterized” and marveled “…as the much sought-after portraitist of not only European royalty and nobility, but also of notable…

Louise Erdrich is a famous “contemporary writer of German- American and Chippewa descent,” (Tanrisal 68) who is well known for “her own short stories and novels” which earned her reputation as a “fiction writer” (Beidler and Gaynor 2). Due to Erdrich’s Native American Decent, her novel settings were mostly centered on her “fictional North Dakota Reservation, whose heart is Matchimanito Lake,” (Beidler and Gaynor 2). Through the different novels of Erdrich, she manages to link them by having…

Abstract: This study examines the interplay between history, memory and trauma in Native American literature, which thematizes Colonization. Louise Erdrich is among the descendants who write novels that highlight familial and generational issues of memory and trauma. The manner in which Erdrich present the effects of memory and trauma mirrors the way psychologist Judith Herman working in the field of memory and therapy describe transgenerational trauma. This paper highlights the descendants of…

American novel by Louise Erdrich that was originally published in 1984 and was later rereleased in an expanded edition in 1993. It received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Fiction in 1984 and is “Erdrich’s first and most critically acclaimed novel” (University of Nebraska-Lincoln). Erdrich herself is “the daughter of a Chippewa Indian mother and a German-American father” (“Louise Erdrich”), thus she “explores Native American themes in her works” (“Louise Erdrich”). Erdrich grew…

Although fighting for a belief is a noble act, people are never the same upon returning. Louise Erdrich makes this imperceptible idea into a concept that all readers perceive after reading the story. In “The Red Convertible,” Louise Erdrich uses symbolism of the red convertible to show how war can negatively affect one’s personality. The red convertible symbolizes Henry’s emotional state throughout the story. Before the war, Henry is a free man whose emotions are expressed outwardly, but upon…

In the poem “Windigo,” by Louise Erdrich, fear was brought out by how her words made us feel. In the poem it says, “You dug your hands into my pale, melting fur”(Erdrich 108). In this line it uses the sense of touch, while reading it you can connect with the feeling. The reason you can connect so well is because most people have felt or touched the…