Analysis Of The Round House By Louise Erdrich

As Louise Erdrich tells her story of The Round House, choosing to use Joe’s character as the narrator shows how he tries to learn the difference between right and wrong in terms of Lark’s sentence. While he is only thirteen years old, this novel’s coming of age during the harsh reality of his mother’s abuse helps the reader learn more about the case of his mother’s rape as well. By choosing Joe’s character as the narrator, the overall mystery of the story is intensified because the reader is understanding what really happened to Joe’s mother along with him. Understanding the story itself from Joe’s perspective is also positive because the reader gets a less opinionated stand point of the situation as opposed to one of the older characters who are wiser and more understanding of the general laws in relation to the justice served from the case. Therefore, readers get multiple stand points from Joe’s experiences while he comes to the conclusion of killing Linden from his belief that revenge is the only way to serve him justice. Although Joe believed that it was only right to kill Linden, Erdrich’s technique in using Joe as the narrator teaches the great coming of age lesson that as people grow up

Within the pages of The Round House, Louise Eldrich tackles the reality of justice for indigenous American populations, specifically how the main character, Joe, decides to take justice in his own hands after the legal system fails him and his mother in rectifying and recognizing her rape, committed by the hands of a racist white male, Linden. Eldrich’s novel, while fictional, is rooted in the experiences of native peoples. With the help of Sarah Deer, a deeper analysis concerning the day-to-day realities of real life Native Americans versus Eldrich’s fictional characters. This analysis will cover the institutional laws put in place by those that are not in the respective tribes of America, due to either coercion or federal intervention. The benefits, as well as drawbacks, of Joe’s eventual decision over the fate of Linden, will also be considered within the analysis. Also, the analysis will confront how Joe’s decision puts his community at risk as well as the interests of the reservation at risk. Particularly, in the lack of justice for sexual assault survivors, including the institutional and societal failings of survivors concerning their race and tribal affiliation. For this reason, Joe is led down the avenue of extra-law actions, ultimately ending in murder.

Did you know that there is more injustice in the government than you might know of.

To Kill a Mockingbird, a classic novel by Harper Lee, is a quintessential example of a novel that brings to light the social injustice that occurred throughout history. This social injustice is not only experienced by people of color, but also people that aren’t perceived as high class in society. Some people that face social injustice in To Kill a Mockingbird are the following: Tom Robinson, the Cunninghams, and Arthur Radley.

There are many unfair laws around the world that people have to put up with. The famous book, The Hunger Games, written by Suzanne Collins has many different themes to it. One of them is resistance towards the Capitol. The people of Panem suffer from the suppression of the Capitol. The citizens show their resistance through simple actions they do daily, silently, and peaceful statements or acts that provide a clear message. In the Hunger Games many aspects of resistance are being shown against the unfair and injustice laws created by the Capitol.

In Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, the author explores the issue of justice using the symbol of the mockingbird. Placed in, the 1930s, a time of great depression and inequality, the book presents injustice acts to the most kind yet blamed citizens of the town Maycomb. The symbolism of the mockingbird and the characters are essential for the message of Harper Lees novel because the kind, but African-American Tom Robinson is unfairly put on trial for the “rape” of Mayella Ewell. Also, Arthur “Boo” Radley is victimized by the rumors the towns people have created about him, forcing him to live alone inside his house with his brother, Nathan Radley. Lastly Atticus Finch, is known by the town for being a good human being and sticking

In Louis Erdrich novel The Round House, Geraldine Coutts was attacked and raped on a small reservation in North Dakota, her husband Bazil Coutts endeavors to bring justice to the case. Thirteen-year-old Joe Coutts is furious that there is little his father can do, so he and his best friends Cappy, Zack, and Angus set out to find the rapist. Erdrich’s novel tells about the unfair justice system on the reservations. The characters of the story show the reader the similarities and differences between the justice system along with how the Natives and whites differently deal with every day and also uncommon issues.

Back then there was racism that was heavily predominated and encouraged inequality. This book revolves around the trial of Tom Robinson for allegedly raping a white woman. The problem is, no matter what the case, facts were, the white lady was going to win. "There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn't be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins.

In the poem “The Colonel” by Carolyn Forche, the narrator is acting as a witness in a case where the colonel is a victim. The narrator gives us a description of how things were during the visit at colonel’s house. Everything was well when they were having the dinner. Colonel and the narrator had something to talk about how it has become so hard to govern. After the wife of the Colonel takes away everything after the dinner was complete. Colonel has a secret that he has to reveal to the narrator. A surprise hits the narrator after the colonel brought a sack and dumped several human ears on the table. Colonel talks arrogantly regarding the people who were likely to be the victims where he tells the narrator that “they go and fuck themselves,” (Forche,1289)

In the case of E.K MacDaniel, Warden et al. Petitioners v. Troy Brown, on January 29, 1994, at 1a.m. 9 year old, Jane Doe was brutally raped in her trailer bedroom. Residing near Jane Doe’s trailer were two brothers, Troy and Travis. Across from Jane Doe’s trailer resided Troy and Travis other brother, Trent along with his girlfriend,

This is an article in which the author talks about domestic violence and rape within the boundaries of the American Indians reservations. He states that many of the Natives American women are going to experience brutal domestic violence and rape. This could be committed by natives americans or non natives american; however the tribal police cannot prosecute non-natives americans because they do not have the authority to arrest them. This happens because under the Indian Law, reservations have their own political government that works only for Americans Natives The author also states that the Obama administration approved a law which allows Indian Tribes to prosecute certain domestic crimes committed by non-Indians in the reservations. But problems persist with this law since it only covers domestic violence but it does not cover rapes and it does not extend to Natives Alaskan. Another problem is that women of the tribes tried to pass a law which is named Section 904. This law would allow tribal courts to prosecute non-Indians who assaulted native women on native lands and it will give protection to the victim in any situation. However, oppositors said that this law will not offer a fair trial to non-natives and it did get approved by the Republican House of the Congress.

An important issue Harding discusses is the fact that both men and women of color are treated much differently within a system of rape culture. Race is a huge component when looking at almost any subject, as people of color are met with prejudices and discrimination in many areas, not just rape culture, but what Harding discusses in her book parallels the treatment of black men and women after the Civil War in very similar ways. Harding states that a woman’s best chance at actually being taken seriously when reporting being raped is to be white. If a woman is not white, her credibility in this case decreases, and her chances of getting a fair trial and having her rapist incarcerated also decreases. This is because, according to Harding, women

Some people claim that the cases being wrongly justified are few, while many people say that it is greatly possible to avoid unjust cases if the rules with life imprisonment are applied in the court so as to avoid unjust treatment. The reason for it is that the opponents cannot find adequate supports for their own statement in the court. Therefore, those who feel guilty were no longer condemned to death, and the lawyers think twice. In America, for example, Gross says that the analysis indicates that at least 340 people would have been put to death unjustly in that same time period. “There are no other reliable estimates of the rate of false conviction in any context,” the researchers wrote in the study, published online on April 28 in Proceedings

A crime in America that is committed all too often is the act of forcible rape. Forcible rape is not a crime only against women. The definition was recently changed to aid in gender neutrality and to account for forcible rapes among same gender (FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, 2013). Forcible rape in now defined as, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) (2013), “Penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.” Although the act of forcible rape is a serious crime, many incidents go unreported for one reason or another. Some reasoning of why a rape may go unreported include, being embarrassed to tell somebody that you were forcibly raped, the victim knew the criminal and is afraid that further injury may occur if they report the incident to the police, or the victim was possibly drugged and was not aware of the situation. I will describe some of the statistics and trends involved with the act of forcible rape, explain some of the reasoning behind why one feels the need to commit forcible rape on another person, how the social learning theory shaped those individuals into the criminals that they are.

In light of the recent Brock Turner case which caused international outrage over the light sentencing and blatant protection of the Stanford student rapist, action is being demanded. Reflection and criticism of not only our justice system, but our society as a whole, has allowed for new surges of feminism and activist movements to take hold. This case gave a unique foothold for the furthering of the feminist movement, and has significantly boosted national attention to one of the movements most debated issues: the existence of rape culture. Although rape culture is a very large and overarching issue critiquing many different facets of American culture, one thing is certain: rape culture is very real, and it can no longer be ignored.