Love Medicine

Water Imagery and Symbolism in Love Medicine Louise Erdrich’s novel Love Medicine conveys the state of Native American life in today’s society. Her symbolism stands out to me above all else in the book. While Erdrich uses many symbols and motifs, the most poignant is her water and river imagery and the symbolism behind it. She uses water to symbolize many concepts in the novel, most prominently time and religion. The passage of time being likened to the movement of a river is not an unprecedented idea due to the endless flow of a river being easily equated with time. However, Erdrich points out the destructive force that such a power of nature has and likens the people in her story to stones on a riverbed. Through symbolism, she illustrates…

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity. (Hippocrates) This was my main reason for enrolling into medical school. The progress of the human kind and civilization is the purpose of almost all of the college programmes. Medicine participates in this process in the most direct way. As far as i can remember i had always had this desire to help people in need; this desire dates back to my school days where i used to participate in every charitable event and help those…

We all have choices in this world, to let go or to hold on. To do something good or bad. To look at what is truly there, or believe in what we cannot see. We all will fall in love in some moment of our lifetime, whether it’s when we are young or when we are old. Some of us stay in love and some of us move on because we know what is best for the people we love. It is ideal that we fall in love young and stay together until our death bed. Especially if you were brought up in the church, when it is…

profoundly impacted my life, my sophomore year of high school. During a sermon about missions, my church camp pastor projected a video onto the sanctuary walls that included statistics about world poverty, starvation, and disease. The rate of child mortalities due to preventable diseases stood out among the rest. A sense of urgency to help these precious children filled me as I sat, sobbing in my seat. That night was when my interest in medicine first began, and my…

This story is like a big family reunion. You meet all of the characters through their own and other’s points of views therefore making all the characters in the story valuable in a way. Love Medicine is the exact opposite of what the readers would think the title means. It consists of heartbreak and desire; betrayal and new friendships; and culture that leads the characters to have differences with one another. Sure, there was a little baby-making in the-- making, but Louise Erdrich made it mean…

In the book, Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, a realistic discussion of Native Americans is created without stereotypes. Conversely, National insights demonstrate that social issues, hence liquor addiction and imprisonment are particularly common among Native Americans. Additionally, Erdrich engenders these realistic discussions by including characters whose lives contain alcohol-related imbroglios, anger issues within a gregarious setting, calamitous war, and imprisonment. These issues are…

dramatically introduced (Love Medicine 17). After an evening of being outspoken and over drinking, King ends up attacking his wife in the kitchen, and action which she responds to by telling him, “‘It’s them. You always get so crazy when you’re home.’” (Erdrich, Love Medicine 42) However, later in the novel, King is depicted at his own place in the city, and he seems to be equally prone to anger and the need to establish himself as a man (Erdrich, Love Medicine 311). It could potentially be a…

methods, the author can shape the structure to help the reader understand important aspects. The novels Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich and The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien showcase some of these techniques. They make the stories more interesting and complex through the structures they use in the course of the novel. Both authors use similar techniques, the they chose these techniques for specific reasons, and the techniques help the reader identify and comprehend the themes of the novels.…

gathered at the mobile clinic on the outskirts of Lima, Peru. It had been a long day. Willing patients were waiting and his attention to Marta was faltering. I had to do something. Unable to share her language, I took her hand instead and nodded. “I will be here with you the entire time,” I pressed, hoping she would understand. She fell silent, but her hand squeezed back. “Together,” I said. Marta nodded. My love of medicine was born from a fascination with science; a growing curiosity about…

I was a child raised by a single mother that was ill with cancer since I was 1 year old. Due to this fact I was frequently visiting doctors and hospitals with her. I believe this is how my love for science developed. I loved seeing all the equipment and listening to the doctors explain how they worked. I believe that I lean towards oncology and cellular function of the body due to the high rates of cancer that has affected my family. The most notable and impacting family member is my mother…