Love Medicine Essay

excuse for the genocide of millions of indigenous people. In Louise Erdrich's novel, Love Medicine, Erdrich exposes how western cultures, specifically Christianity, have white-washed Native American culture by personifying her own upbringing through her characters' battles between religion and society.

difference to the society, going beyond the constraints of socio-cultural differences and today I finally see myself knocking at the doors of success, hoping you will open it for me. My love for medicine began at a relatively young age, encouraged by my cousin,

Love Medicine is a wonderfully written novel that has many different points of view. We see in the beginning the death of June. This novel speaks a lot about death. While it is not just centered on death, it does have many instances on it and how it affected the people around them. Death the one thing guaranteed in life. Louise Erdrich used one person’s death to start stories on her life. Erdrich tells of both what someone dying was thinking and what someone watching thought. June Morrissey left

Family “Stepdaughters” and “Love Medicine” Family is interpreted many different ways by many different people. In these two stories “Stepdaughters” by Max Apple and “Love Medicine” by Louise Erdrich, we will view the family dynamics differences and similarities. In the story “Stepdaughters” our author paints a very vivid image of a broken family. Starting with the death of our character Stephanie’s father when she was a very small child, but also the fact that her mother Helen had remarried several

Ultimately, the authors of A Yellow Raft in Blue Water and Love Medicine create sympathetic indigenous female characters throughout their novels by portraying them as victims of circumstance. Throughout both the novels, there is an overbearing sense of anticipated calamity which overwhelms these characters lives. They are imprisoned literally within their impoverished and bleak circumstances. The prejudice against First Nation people limits their prospects and makes them more vulnerable to drugs

In Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, many of the characters face expectations for their roles as Native Americans and as women on their reservation. One of these characters is Lulu, who experiences shaming because of her traditionalist view of Chippewa life and relationships with many men. She is continually fueled by a love and passion that guides her to contradict these expectations, often quite directly, even in the face of community gossip. Throughout the novel, Lulu defies expectations about

In Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, the characters all face societal expectations that shape their identities and actions, including ideas about their lives as Native Americans and as women. One character who encounters these expectations is Lulu Lamartine, who experiences shaming because of her traditionalist view of Chippewa life, relationships with multiple men, and children with different fathers. However, she is fueled by love and her heritage as a Chippewa, which guide her to contradict the

“The Red Convertible” is an interesting story due to its characters, plot, and the general background that the author was motivated by to write this story as well as many of her other works. “The Red Convertible” deals with the relationship between two brothers of the Chippewa Reservation. The story focuses on how their relationship changes over a period of time and discretely how the red convertible car they both bond over reflects those changes in their relationship throughout that period. Sadly

father sends her off to Argus to work in a butcher shop. While she's in Argus Pauline works with Fleur, whom she's afraid of. She's afraid of Fleur because of her magical powers (12). Pauline later in the novel Tracks uses magical powers to create a love potion that she uses on Eli and Sophie (86). These magical powers are Native American custom and although Pauline wants to be fully white the Native American heritage holds her. After giving birth to Marie, Pauline is

Use of Humor in Erdrich's Tracks             An old adage claims that laughter is the best medicine to cure human ailments.  Although this treatment might sound somewhat unorthodox, its value as a remedy can be traced back to ancient times when Hypocrites, in his medical treatise, stressed the importance of  “a gay and cheerful mood on the part of the physician and patient fighting disease” (Bakhtin 67).  Aristotle viewed laughter as man’s quintessential privilege:  “Of all living creatures