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    Louise Erdrich introduces several generations in the interrelated families living in and around a Chippewa or Ojibwa reservation in North Dakota. Love Medicine is told through the voices of a series of vivid characters‚ mostly Chippewa men and women who are caught up in the emotional tangle of their families’ histories‚ but who struggle to gain some control over their lives. In her uniquely poetic style‚ Erdrich creates an intense vision of a world that is at once violent and tender‚ ugly and lyrical

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    Erdrich takes the approach of Native American magic in “Love Medicine” were as Marquez tries to incorporate more of a fairytale type magic. Magic was used as an accent rather than the base of the story. Erdrich makes his story more believable with the integration of magical elements. Marquez was unable to really make any part of the story seem feasible. Therefore‚ “Love Medicine” creates a story with understandable magic elements incorporated where “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” focuses more

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    Erdrich’s Love Medicine‚ a novel made up of a collection of short stories about a family of Chippewa Indians that reside on a reservation in North Dakota. The stories cover three generations‚ fifty years‚ and several families‚ with the main theme of the novel being the struggle between stability and change and there are eight distinct narrators. The stories seem so loosely related; some critics have questioned whether this novel really stands as a true novel alone. One critic‚ Allan Chavkin‚ describes

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    Life of Louise Erdrich

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    2014 Research Paper Louise Erdrich was born June 7‚ 1954. She was born first of seven children to Ralph and Rita Erdrich. Louise Erdrich attended school where her parents both taught at a boarding school run by the Bureau of Indian Affairs in North Dakota. After attending there‚ Erdrich attended college as part of the first class of women at Dartmouth College in 1972 earning her B.A. While attending college‚ Erdrich met her future husband Michael Dorris. Louise Erdrich married her husband in

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    Tracks - Louise Erdrich In Louise Erdrich’s “Tracks”‚ I discovered by the second chapter that there are two narrators‚ Nanapush and Pauline. Having two narrators telling their stories alternately was at first very confusing. Traditionally‚ there is one narrator in the story‚ but Erdrich does an effective and spectacular job in combining Nanapush and Pauline’s stories. The central and main character is Fleur Pillager. She in fact is the protagonist of “Tracks”. Fleur is mentioned in every chapter

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    Louise Erdrich was born on July 6‚ 1954 as the eldest daughter of seven children of a Chippewa Indian mother and a German-American father in Little Falls‚ Minnesota but she grew in Wahpeton‚ North Dakota. Louis Erdrich’s cultural identity was that she was of the Chippewa Indian tribe of the Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota from her mother side. At an early age Louise was encouraged by her parents to write stories and that her father would paid her a nickel a story and her mother made covers

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    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

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    "The Red Convertible" by Louise Erdrich In "The Red Convertible‚" by Louise Erdrich‚ the red convertible symbolizes the brothers relationship at different stages through the story. In the story Erdrich uses specific actions of the brothers to show change in their relationship‚ which corresponds with the red convertible. Erdrich uses scenes involving the red convertible to show different stages of the brothers relationships. The story begins with a road trip representing the boys closeness‚ then

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    “The Leap” by Louise Erdrich is a short story about a woman named Anna‚ a now retired acrobat. Flying Avalons was the name of the heart stopping Acrobat team that Anna performed in with her late husband Harry. One sunny afternoon in June the couple was performing their breathtaking stunt‚ but the unpredictability of New Hampshire weather brought disaster with it. A mid-afternoon thunderstorm brought the fatality of Anna’s husband and unborn child after a stray lightning bolt hit the top of the carnival

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    Louise Erdrich – The Leap – Questions - The title “The Leap” could mean a leap of faith or can be taken literally as a jump. But in context of the story‚ “The Leap” means bridging gaps and making connections between things. When Anna lost her husband she was able to meet her new love while recuperating at the hospital. The two biggest leaps that Anna made was when she attempted to save her unborn child along with her own life and when she saved the narrator from the house fire. - The author uses

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