Love Medicine Character Analysis

It’s apparent that Louise’s identity has changed from being a shy and isolated girl to someone that wants to have power.

The mother is unsympathetic to Blacks and the Civil Rights Movement. She reminds Julian commonly about his incredible granddad who was the representative and "had an estate and two hundred slaves," then he helps her to

and memory and the past. She is one of the most interesting characters in the book.

Likewise, Kincaid wrongly judges her mother. In her essay, “The Estrangement’” she tells that she stopped talking to her mother after she spoke unkindly about her in a conversation they had through the phone. She describes her mother as a person that was seen as nice by others, but not by her nor her younger siblings. She asserts that her mother, “said horrible things to us more often than not” and that the nice person everyone saw in her “was not at all known to us” (Kincaid 170). In other words, her mother was unaffectionate to them. A statement she makes evident when she tells about the time his step-father was buried next to her mother and her uncertainty of whether he would have liked that based on her and her siblings preferences. She claims, “we would rather be dead than spend eternity lying next to her” (Kincaid 170). In other terms, they despised her mother for the treatment she gave them. However, later in the text, there is a shift in tone: from hate to acknowledgement and love. Her perception of her mother changes after she realizes how

While in Kincaid´s she grew up with a mother who was the worst in her opinion, and the way she was treated caused her to want to treat her children better. She wanted to treat them with more love and approval than her mother gave to her. While discussing if it was a bad idea to bury her mother alongside her brother she

She smoothes over Sofia's betrayal of the family, her running away and fighting with her father, by calling it lucky that she ended up with such a loving husband and a beautiful blonde baby. Her story about the thieves who got caught the night Sofia was born similarly reflects her desire to look on the brighter side of things. She needs this positive attitude to craft positive family stories out of unfortunate events.

The story of Love Medicine revolves around a central character, June Kashpaw, and the many threads of relationships surrounding her, both near the time of her death, and in what has gone on before. The novel is an exploration of a family web that June was a key component of. Her character is a pivot point

Luella is very influential. She can give people short-term or long-term influence. She intimidated Roger by angrily interrogating him with "What did you want to do it for?" (page 1, paragraph 4, line 1), he whispers "I'm very sorry, lady, I'm sorry" in page 1, paragraph 11, line 1, which showed how scared he was. She thinks that he might have been living off of stealing, so she grabbed him to teach him a valuable lesson. She used a metaphor to make him realize that he is not only harming others by stealing, but harming himself, too. She explained "...shoes come by devilish like will burn your feet..." in page 3, paragraph 10, line 3, "devilish like" meaning harmful, illegal, or bad actions. She admitted that she had also made some mistakes in the past. Her point is that you can still become a good person with good intentions even though you've made some

She lifted the hat one more time and set it down slowly on her head. Two wings of gray hair protruded on either side of her florid face, but her eyes, sky-blue, were as innocent as they must have been when she was ten. Where it not that she was a widow who had struggled fiercely to feed and clothe and put him through school and who was supporting him still, “until he got on his feet,” she might have been a little girl that he had to take to town.

As the reader is more introduced to her they can see her manipulation become more evident. “Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you” (23) she tells this to the other girls. This adds a fear element as well as eludes how she can manipulate people into doing what she tells them. This helps to not only prove to the reader the truth of this theme but develop the plot and her role in the

By carefully reading the summer reading novel and completing this packet over the summer, which you need to bring to class on the first day of school, you will be prepared to discuss the story in the fall, to take a summer reading quiz and to write an in-class essay using your novel and packet as the basis for your responses. As you read the novel in preparation for the unit, you will first need to understand some of the basic elements of the story.

He gets woven into the world of witchcraft and becomes close friends with a witch called Twiggy. He eventually helps Twiggy defeat the evil witch Logan Dritch and the ambitious mortal Lydia, who attempts to exterminate the witch population.

She is a character who is loyal, yet she is also someone who is a perfectionist and still wants to be alone. Waiting 15 years to marry the love of her life, shows she has a charateristic of loyalty to herself and others. The narrator shows one exmaple of her loyalty when the text says, "she had been faithful to him all these years” (Freeman 472). This quote shows not only her loyalty to him, but the worth of value she has for committment. Even though she has a committment to him, this does not take into account the fact they have both changed since they last met 14 years ago. The narrator shows this when the text says,"fifteen years ago she had been in love with him at least she considered herself to be” (Freeman 472). This quote suggests Louisa may have at one time loved Joe, but that is no longer the case for either of them. Along with Louisa being loyal, she also tends to have a perfectionist side. The narrator shows this side of her many times. The narrator shows this when talking about Louisa's lettuce "which she has raised to perfection" (Freeman,469). The whole story shows how Louisa always needs ot have everything in tip top shape. This could lead the reader to infer Louisa may have an Obsessive Compulsive

She says true to everything she say but she can get rude throughout the book. Truly loves everyone she very kind though and everyone lover

He dislikes the Enchantress and the Evil Queen because they tried to rule over the FairyTale World and