Louise Erdrich’s novel Tracks, published in 1988, recounts the story of an Anishinaabe family on an Indian reservation. The plot revolves around the life history of the protagonist, Fleur Pillager. Erdrich uses the multiple narrator technique by telling the story from the perspectives of Nanapush, an affable tribal elder, and Pauline Puyat, a mixed-blood girl. The novel recounts the incidents that took place between the years 1912 to 1924 in the life of Fleur Pillager. Erdrich divides the narrative into two distinct sections. The Nanapush chapters recount the conversation between Lulu, the daughter of Fleur, and Nanapush. In these chapters, Nanapush in an “authoritative and confiding tone” (Walker, 37) narrates the events that compelled Fleur…
When her five-year-old daughter Abbie became upset, she made all attempts to make her daughter happy. And so the puppy is yet another symbol of Marie’s devotion to her children’s happiness. “Which was when Abbie had burst into tears, because, being only five, she had no memory of Goochie as a puppy. Hence this Family Mission” (Saunders 174; Mays 174). The puppy was the…
Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey is a renowned American actress, comedian, writer, and producer. She was born on May 18th, 1970 in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. Fey graduated from the University of Virginia in 1992 and proceeded to move to Chicago in order to take improvisational classes. Her career began to take off when she repeatedly submitted scripts to NBC’s sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL) until 1997, when she was interviewed and hired as a writer for the show. After writing various sketches and the resignation of head writer Adam KcKay, Fey was approached to fill the role, which she accepted.…
Louise Erdrich, the author of the short story “The Leap” main focus throughout the story is about the past of the narrator’s mother, Anna. Anna, an ex blind folded trapeze performer who is now sightless due to enriching and stubborn cataracts, is an unbreakable bow an arrow; being pulled and released into an unpredictable life. When it comes to Anna’s daughter, Anna would do anything for her; even if it were “[leaping] through [the] air … and hanging by the back of her heels from the … gutter” (195). When the house fire occurred no one including the firefighters, were trying to get Anna’s daughter out of the house. Anna was the only person brave enough to save her daughter.…
Exerts of male hostility towards women create a simply uncomfortable living pattern, and is usually a lead up to rash behavior. Prior terbulants in Marie – Lou and Leopolds relationship keeps them in a full – time agrument, not allowing them to be able to erase the past, which is disrupting their present and future. The constant bickering and pulling back and forth, causes a great strain on everything. Marie – Lou isn't even able to reason with her husband Leopold. Leopold exerts hostility towards Marie – Lou due to a “hard” life, working at the same plant for 20 years, coming home to the same routine. Much a like Big Joey's hostility towards the mere idea that women might be playing hockey. A closed minded man, with his own thoughts and ideas, very comparable to Leopold. They both are considerably against the idea of women being able to be self relient. Leopold makes it very clear that he doesn't think Marie – Lou is good for…
Benjamin Franklin once said, “Where there is a marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.” (Benjamin) Marriage is the foundation for social order because it restrains us from self centeredness and self indulgence. However, with the wrong significant other, one can find themselves on the path to adultery. (Craven) Ethan Frome is a story of a family caught in a deeply rooted domestic struggle. In the novel, the main character Ethan is caught in a love triangle between his wife Zeena, and his maid Mattie. There are numerous themes and conflicts throughout the context. However, within the themes of weakness, isolation, poverty, loves and death, the author brings in five different symbols. A symbol is a thing that represents or stands for something else, esp. a material object representing something abstract. (Symbolling) Moreover, they allow the characters to articulate their emotions more clearly to the reader, which is very useful in bringing light to the story, and it illuminates the meaning that cannot be expressed in words. For example, a dark room symbolizes darkness, depression, gloominess, and hopelessness; therefore we would link that part of the story with darkness. Although, some symbols are easy to define, others require more research and reading. Likewise, through reading Ethan Frome, the color red, pickle dish, cat, setting, and light and darkness all highlight the major conflicts that arise throughout the context. (Wharton)…
Unlike Nanapush and Fleur, Louise Erdrich uses the character of Pauline to demonstrate the rejection of Ojibwa religion and culture. Throughout the novel, Pauline is known as a liar and troublemaker who tries her best and hardest to single handedly destroy Ojibwa life, religion, and culture. For example, in the novel, Pauline had “bothered [her] father into sending [her] south, to the white town. [She] had decided to learn the lace-making trade from the nuns” (Erdrich, 14). Pauline is asking her dad to send her south away from the other Native Americans, and more importantly, away from the Ojibwa religion. In this part of the novel, Erdrich best conveys Pauline’s rejection of Ojibwa religion by showing how the efforts she would go through in order to separate herself from the Ojibwa way of life. Pauline has rejected this lifestyle to such great amounts that she is willing to move…
Using inner narrative, Hannah Kent allows her readers access into the mind of Agnes, giving us a true understanding of the thoughts and emotions experienced by her though out her journey. She speaks of truth, loss and the extreme, passionate love that she felt for Natan. It is through this that we see the true strength of this character and we begin to understand the full depths of her state of mind. Natan had cheated Agnes of her heart and with her at his feet, he left her. Despite being grief-stricken at Natan’s betrayal, Agnes continues to devote her love to…
5. What concepts of courtly love are illustrated by the two lais of Marie de France?…
Another function of dreaming in these texts would be a reflection of the characters true desires, in this case a longing to be accepted and loved. Isabelle Marie does not feel loved and accepted. Her mother…
Patrice’s beauty that she believed that there should be no need to care for anything else.…
She feels that she is a “burden” to him because of her “nervous troubles”. John seems to treat the narrator as if she really does have something wrong with her even though her “case is no serious”. He tells her that “nothing was worse for a nervous patient than to give way to such fantasies”. He puts the narrator in a “nursery” as if she is a small child. He refers to her as a “blessed little goose”. He also tries to keep her away from all contact with people. He tells her that her baby makes her “so nervous” and when she wants her cousins to visit he tells her that “he would as soon put fireworks in my pillow-case as to let me have those stimulating people about now”. The narrator describes the wallpaper as “torn off in spots and it sticketh closer than a brother,” which talks about her relationship with John which is strong but they still have a few problems. Also she says, “must have had perseverance as well as hatred” which means that she believes in John and thinks that he is doing what’s best for her however she does have a feeling of hatred sometimes for him because he keeps her locked in and doesn’t treat her as a normal…
In The Stranger, before Mersault “opened himself to the gentle indifference of the world” (122), he valued women only in regard with their physical appearance and made no attempt to relate to them in any other way. This is illustrated in Mersault’s relationship with Marie Cardona. He values her company only because he is attracted to her in a physical way with no regards to her character: “She had her legs presses against mine. I was fondling her breasts” (Camus 20). In fact, their characters are the complete antithesis of each other: her liveliness, “She laughed the whole time” (Camus 19-20), in contrast to his apathy, “It didn’t mean anything” (41), her love for him, “with a smile and she wanted to marry [Mersault]” (42), in contrast to his inability to reciprocate her feelings, “…she asked me if I loved her. I told her I didn’t think so” (35). This further highlights their disconnection from one another. He accepts his incapability to interact with her and thus, he…
Marie curie was born on November 7th 1867, in Warsaw, once the capitol of Poland. Her close friends and family had a nickname for her, Manya. Before Marie turned eleven, her mother had died of Tuberculosis, and her oldest sister had died of Typhus. Despite her grief and short comings, Marie graduated from high school at the early age of fifteen with the highest honors. Marie started to feel depressed, so her father sent her to live with her cousins in the country side.…
The author appeals to the emotions of his audience when discussing the main character’s feelings for Kate. At first, the narrator expresses regret with Kate, in simple things like not being able to see her ‘lovely knees’ often because of her work’s uniform and the feeling that while the two of them were still together, he could feel them drifting apart. Not necessarily because of their individual feelings, but because he knew that they wouldn’t be able to stay together when the time came for them to follow their plans for the future. He describes his contradicting feelings in that talking about their plans made them feel…