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How Did Louise Erdrich Changed Her Life
Louise Erdrich was a concessioner at the Gilles Theater in Wahpeton, North Dakota at the age of fourteen. At her workplace, she could watch the movie after the completion of her assigned work. She had watched every movie again and again; nothing was good to her except Costa- Gavra’s Z, a French film in 1969 that changed her life, regarded as the best movie in her life. She had changed herself in many ways: She realized that her parents were right about her career, she practiced to be success and engaged in work. She also knew life is more than the stag leap, or the flying T. The phrases “The forces of greed and hatred cannot tolerate us” was stuck in her mind after the third viewing of the movie.
She had an argument with her co-worker named

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