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    Tracks By Louise Erdrich

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    In the chapter “Fleur” from the novel Tracks, Louise Erdrich’s mythical portrayals of the protagonist, Fleur, reveal the clash between the culture of Native Americans and European Americans. Erdrich intertwines the abilities of humans and nature through Fleur’s experiences as a Native American woman in a society dominated by White males. Fleur’s unconventional behavior sets her apart from her community heading her to leave the reservation and go to Argus, a predominantly White town. Pauline, a mixed

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    perceptions in Louise Erdrich Tracks The novel Tracks by Louise Erdrich starts from the historical moment when the exemption on the land taxes granted by Dawes Act had ended. The novel covers the period from 1912 to 1924. But a lot of scholarly attention has focused instead on the novel’s narrative structure, particularly on the dual narrators – Pauline and Nanapush. According to several critics, Louise Erdrich blends fiction and Native American cultural identity in her novel Tracks, which

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    The novel “Tracks” written by Louise Erdrich is a very engaging, spiritual and powerful story, as it pictures native American culture and their life on reservations at the turn of the 20th century. “Tracks” focuses on a story about a group of Indians living on a reservation in North Dakota in the early 1900s. This group of Indians are four Anishinaabe families who live close to the imaginary city of Argus. “Tracks” rotates between two narrators, Nanapush and Pauline. Nanapush is a tribal elder and

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    has heard the quote, “you can’t understand someone until you walk a mile in their shoes” at least once in their life. It means that a person should not judge another person before considering their perspective on something. For the novel Tracks by Louise Erdrich, that quote is an important theme for its main characters. The novel gives a glimpse into the lives of Native Americans in 20th century America through the narrative of two characters: Nanapush and Pauline Puyat. The stories of the two alternate

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    In her novel Tracks, Louise Erdrich tells the story of the Anishinaabe tribe living in North Dakota. She is primarily focused on the conflict between the Anishinaabe people and the United States Government because these Chipawa people continued to experience a peculiarly American form of apartheid, characterized by segregation, discrimination, cultural imperialism everyday violence and encroachments in their lands even after the emancipiation proclamination. Native Americans across the country

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    Chapter 1, Nanapush Summary Nanapush talks about the conditions of his Native American tribe in North Dakota. He is considered an elder although he is only fifty years old. Nanapush is talking to someone he calls Granddaughter about how he saves her mother, Fleur Pillager. Fleur recuperates and bonds with Nanapush over their dead families. When the weather permits, Fleur and Nanapush bury the dead Pillagers. Nanapush makes the clan markers, which is the symbol of a bear. Back at Nanapush's place

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    around a fire having a great time. I also thought that all Native Americans got along with each other because they were all Native Americans who would want to stick together and fight against everyone else. When I first started to read Tracks by Louise Erdrich, I was not expecting the novel to have such disasters, difficulties, and a change in character personalities. Some people still view Native Americans as living on reservations, wearing feathers in their hair, and living on the resources

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    Essay on Use of Humor in Erdrich's Tracks

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    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

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    Characters are created with a unique purpose such as being a narrator or to increase the dynamics of the story. Nanapush’s main function in Tracks is being a narrator. Although Nanapush is presented as a powerful bear and a loyal person, he can also be comprehended as an unreliable narrator. However, his characteristic can still convince some readers to believe in his side of the story. Nanapush’s actions such as reading the newspaper on page 47 suggests how he is educated and reliable. Regardless

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    Round House is Louise Erdrich . Louise is the author of fifteen novels. Children’s books , volumes of poetry , and a memoir of early motherhood. Louise had won the National Book Award for fiction, for her book The Round House. Louise was the oldest of seven children. Born July 6, 1954. Growing up in Wahpeton , South Dakota. As a child Louise was encouraged by her parents to start writing stories, as she got older she kept journals . Louise attended many colleges. In 1972, Louise attended Dartmouth

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