I want to enter them the way their hot shadows fold into their bodies in full sunlight. I want to be their food, their harmful drink, to taste men like stilled jam at the back of my tongue" (Erdrich 82)
. ] eating disorders 'present the stage for a conflict grounded on desire and power in which the individual process of identity formation clashes with and rebels against traditional notions of what constitutes a human being" (Morace 46)
Marie dreams of eating potatoes and onions when she gives birth to her second daughter, and many of the characters think about food or prepare food during crucial scenes. Another critic notes, "The family celebrations are the occasions for feasting, and in Erdrich's detailed descriptions of various dishes and their preparation, readers find variations played out on yet another of the novel's central images -- that of cookery and food" (Stookey 128)
For example in cases where women chose to leave a bad marriage, children often grow up either with a stepfather or with a single parent. This gives rise to a new kind of family but despite its negative effects in the long run, this kind of scenario is unavailable because as women become more educated, they choose not to stay in a bad marriage because they are no longer dependent on a man for their financial life (Astone et al
Tracks Louise Erdich What are the strategies that Erdrich uses to pull the reader quickly into her story? Louise Erdrich pulls the reader into her novel Tracks by using two strong narrators, Nanapush and Pauline Puyat, who are hostile to each other and represent opposed points-of-view, although neither is exactly 100% honest. The story opens during the tuberculosis epidemic of 1912, which "must have cleared all of the Anishinabe (Ojibwa) that the earth could hold" (Erdrich 1)
2: Look up trickster figure "Nanabozo" or "Nanabush" or Nanapush in Ojibwa mythology. How does Nanapush resemble this character and how not? Nanpbozho was a great and powerful god who taught human beings how to use fire, make arrows and hatchets, build canoes and gave the Chippewas "all their rights and the mysteries of their religion" (Gonsior 26)
She has rejected her Native American heritage and converted to Catholicism, which has left her isolated and alienated. She calls herself a scavenger and a "toxic weed," and is always trying to convert her people to Christianity (West 163)