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Marie lifts her bloody, bandaged hand and calls Leopolda to her in the voice of a saint. Leopolda says that she explained to the nuns that Marie had received the stigmata and then fainted. Marie ...
“Saint Marie,” the second in the cycle of fourteen linked stories that make up Louise Erdrich’s novel Love Medicine (1985), centers on the complex relations between Indians and non-Indians ...
Marie perceives hypocrisy in both her and Leopolda's actions as they attempt to wield power. This "miracle" of the stigmata highlights the contrast between Native American and Catholic belief systems.
In “Saint Marie,” the image is a central metaphor for relations between Sister Leopolda’s Christianity and the powerless children she teaches. In a parody of the Sacrament of Holy Communion ...
Overview " The Leap" is a short story by Louise Erdrich in which the narrator moves in with her now-blind mother, Anna, to whom she feels indebted. The first debt was accrued when Anna, a trapeze ...
Louise Erdrich's The Plague of Doves is set in North Dakota in the Ojibwe reservation and its border town, Pluto. The novel spans nearly a century and begins with the gruesome murder of a farm ...
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“The Red Convertible,” which also forms a chapter in Louise Erdrich’s novel Love Medicine (1984, 1993), is the story of two Native American brothers, Lyman Lamartine and his older sibling ...
Saint Marie The Round House eNotes.com will help you with any book or any question. Our summaries and analyses are written by experts, and your questions are answered by real teachers. ...
Introduction. Louise Erdrich's poem "Captivity" was published in 2003 in Original Fire: Selected and New Poems.The poem's title references The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs ...