POCAHONTAS AND THE MYTHICAL INDIAN WOMAN: REFORMING THE IMAGE THROUGH NATIVE AMERICAN FICTION Pocahontas. Americans know her as the beautiful‚ Indian woman who fell in love with the white settler John Smith and then threw her body upon the poor white captive to protect him from being brutally executed by her own savage tribe. The magical world of Walt Disney came out with their own movie version several years ago portraying Pocahontas as a tan‚ sexy Barbie doll figure and John Smith as a blond-haired
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Trickster Characters in Tracks The novel Tracks by Louise Erdrich is a story written but of oral tradition in the classic Native American way. The novel is narrated by two characters Pauline and Nanapush. In this story there is much symbolism and trickery. A trickster character is one who can take various forms such as animal and human or play tricks with their words using them as a form of verbal torture or trickery. A few characters in Tracks could be considered as trickster characters such
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Anthony Tumasone Dr. Cheng-Levine English 102 18 April 2007 The Significance of Truthful Change “The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse” by Louise Erdrich‚ depicts an ambiguous and rebelling nun‚ Agnes DeWitt‚ who although a sister of the Catholic Church‚ separated herself from God. After tragedy strikes and her impious lover has perished‚ Agnes DeWitt is faced with confusion and seeks individuality. Perilous change is soon made: Agnes begins a transition from female to male
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Cited: Erdrich‚ Louise. 1989. Tracks. Harper Perennial. Shaefer‚ Jack. Shane. 1983. Bantam. London‚ Jack. 2005. Call of the Wild. Prestwick House Inc. Portis‚ Charles. 2002. True Grit. Overlook Press.
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lost” (Erdrich 2004: 9). Thus the members of the Ojibwa tribe are divided against one another. People become greedy. They are against themselves. Kashpaw family becomes greedy. Paying taxes becomes their main motive. It collapses their community sharing life. They become alienated from their own culture and tradition. The novel deals with the effect of the general allotment act of 1887. Its main aim is to destroy the tribal culture unity. Mary john in
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Convertible” she presented valid arguments that Louise Erdrich‚ the author of the story “The Red Convertible”‚ is a nationalist of the Native American culture despite her frequent use of symbols of the western civilization in the text of the story. Pratima claimed that the tragedy of Henry was in his inability to resist the influence of the western civilization‚ though she failed to address contradictory evidence in the story “The Red Convertible” by Louise Erdrich‚ that makes Pratima’s claims less convincing
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the stories we hear and read influenced by those who is telling the stories pasts? And in that case‚ all stories should be seen as a cultural representations or depictions. The author David Treuer argues whether or not Native American authors like Louise Erdrich’s work should be viewed for its Literary content rather than its representation of Native culture. When successfully analyzing and forming an opinion on this we must break it down to these questions‚ are those of native decent better suited
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Instead‚ they give hints and clues to trigger the reader to pull out the topic from the story. One of the main ways authors do this is through the title they give their story. Louise Erdrich named her story "The Red Convertible" for a good reason‚ to make the readers see how important a red convertible can be. Louise Erdrich uses the red convertible to symbolize Lyman and Henry’s brotherhood from their tight bond to their falling out. The purchasing of the red convertible is the puzzle piece that
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in ways only the tribe’s members could appreciate. All of the tribe members gathered together to honor their ancestors and culture. This is what the majority would assume about Native Americans living on a reservation‚ but in Oral History by Louise Erdrich‚ the families living on this reservation have lives filled with betrayal‚ alcoholism‚ love‚ and triumph. The novel is told from many different characters’ point of view‚ ranging in a fifty year time frame‚ which makes Oral History distinctive
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Native Americans is deeply rooted in symbolic and mythic standards. This assignment will focus on how Native American literature is rooted in storytelling. The selected text of choice for the assignment is “Indian Boarding School: The Runaways” by Louise Erdrich and “She Had Some Horses” by Joy Harjo When it comes to Native American Literature the tradition of storytelling was well-known throughout the Native culture. In the place of written language and in order for Native Americans to explain
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