IB+Love+Medicine+Louise+Erdrich

Love Medicine - Louise Erdrich
Love Medicine is a series of short stories which are bound together to form a novel as a whole. The plot, if we can call it that, is the lives of two families of the Chippewa tribe, the Kashpaws and the Lamartines who live on a fictive reservation in Northern Dakota.



Louise Erdrich has revised the collection of stories, and in the final novel, (which we have), she removed two chapters called Lyman's Luck and The Tomahawk Factory. Many of the separate short stories have appeared on their own.

Louise Erdrich.

Another page with some interesting information on Louise Erdrich.[|Information on Louise Erdrich]

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This interview with Louise Erdrich is quite boring at the beginning, but it becomes much more interesting towards the end. She talks about her heritage. This is part one, but please watch part 2 as well.

**General Analysis and Background Information**
An interesting analysis and introduction to //Love Medicine//, discussing the first page, by Professor Foster.

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Background Knowledge: The creation myth of the Chippewa tribe in relation to Love Medicine

Wikipedia has a short discussion on the novel, as well as a list with all the short stories and the type of narrator. You know better than to trust Wikipedia implicitly, but it will give you something to think about. [|Wiki of Love Medicine]

Chronology in Love Medicine - Here is a handout with a chronological list to what happens in Love Medicine.

[|Love Medicine discussions] This is a website with lots of general ideas on theme, characterization etc. And [|another website] here with excellent discussion on Love Medicine - many ideas are touched upon here which you might use in your final essay.

[|Reading Group guide] This is a guide for reading groups: it is quite thin, but there are 4 questions for you to think about.

literary analysis discusses food as a theme in //Love Medicine//

Here is the article comparing Raymond Carver and Louise Erdrich. Extremely worth your while to read, e will help you see connections between the two works, which might be very helpful in paper 2. We will spend one period in class reading and talking about this article.

Another excellent article to read is Louise Flavin's analyses of //Love Medicin//e,. Although is is available on Ebsco, here is a link for you to read.

=Chapter Specific Analysis and Summaries=

I have received some chapter summaries from Ms Johnson. They are definitely not enough to help you understand the novel, **nor are they all correct**, but they can help you as a first step into understanding a novel which, at times can be quite confusing. If you think you can avoid reading the novel and just rely on these sketchy notes, you are a very sad and mistaken person. You are better than this!

**//Saint Marie//**

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**//The Beads//**

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**//The Plunge of the Brave//**

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 * //Flesh and Blood//**
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**//A Bridge//**

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**//The Red Convertibl////e//**
[|A Literary analysis of Red Convertible] [|Another Literary analysis of Red Convertible] And yet another analysis of this chapter can be found And here is an analysis of the

**//Scales//**
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**//Crown of Thorns//**

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**//Love Medicine//**

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**//Resurrection//**

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**//Crossing The Water//**

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