1. (Ojibwe Option) Consider the importance of water in the novel and the recurring themes of walking on water, diving, swimming, and drowning. How do these connect with Ojibwan origin stories and stories about water monsters (some of these stories are available in the Blackboard folder on Erdrich, but they can also be Googled)?
2. (Structural Option) Love Medicine does not have a traditional narrative arc in which events build gradually to a single climactic event and then wind down to a conclusion. In addition, the events of the novel do not fall in a straight chronological sequence. The novel follows more of a circular pattern, beginning in 1981, looping back to the 1930s, and then moving slowly forward through the decades, finally ending up back in the mid-1980s. How do these unusual structural choices shape the readers understanding of the story?
Links
http://www.native-languages.org/chippewa-legends.htm
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