Our Work Is Our Altar By Linda Hogan Analysis
The story begins with the description of author grandmother. Hogan tell readers what grandmother taught her. When the author was sick, grandmother treated her with traditional medicine and pray. Hogans grandmother told her that: “Our work is our altar”. I think the idea of this metaphor “Waking up the rake” is when you have a bad streak in your life never give up, after injury time will be a healing.
The author use strong thesis to intrigue readers. But the main idea of this story is not about a carcasses of dead animals, this text about degeneration. Hogan use interesting comparison with people soul and the earth. “The word ‘rake’ means to gather or heap up, to smooth the broken ground” (by Linda Hogan). It means that everything after
The author use strong thesis to intrigue readers. But the main idea of this story is not about a carcasses of dead animals, this text about degeneration. Hogan use interesting comparison with people soul and the earth. “The word ‘rake’ means to gather or heap up, to smooth the broken ground” (by Linda Hogan). It means that everything after