Spinneret

to hatch. All the baby worms are fed night and day with mulberry leaves until they have stored enough energy to enter the cocoon stage. The silkworm takes three to four days to spin a cocoon around them. Silkworm secretes a silk thread from its spinneret that has two strands of fibroin and serein (a protein) that is produced by a pair of silk glands. Through this whole process the worms are protected from noises, drafts and strong smells. Before the cocoons hatch, about nine days in a warm dry…

When one reads Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, you are instantly aware of the Native American spirituality and Christian dualism in the novel. We see characters connected by nature’s touch and roped into a tangled web of people, places, and time. If readers look into the leaves of the book, wrap their mind around the message of interconnectedness of nature and life, they will see the same ideas mirrored from the transcendentalists in American history. Native American spirituality is based on…