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Love Medicine: Family Values Among the Dispossessed, 2002.
An analysis of Louise Erdrich's tale of characters linked in confusing extended family relationships who seek meaningful connection through tribal kinship.
2,520 words (approx. 10.1 pages), 8 sources, MLA, £ 52.95
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Louise Erdrich uses her disjointed multiple narrative style to represent the similarly fragmented lives of her Native American characters whose home lives and family values cannot be expected to be what mainstream America would consider "normal" because their native traditions are no longer intact. Everything that their ancestors once stood for has been destroyed. The original natives of this continent, are now outsiders, alienated from the value systems established by the newcomers in their own homeland.
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"Louise Erdrich?s Love Medicine is ?a collection of interrelated short stories? (?Voices from the Gaps?) with different narrators, about a group of Native Americans who are connected in confusing extended family relationships. As critics point out, telling stories in this disjointed way is part of the Anishinabe oral tradition in which characters evolve in stories told episodically over time (Stokes). Love Medicine centers around four Anishinabe* families, and although the Morrissey?s, Lamartines, Kashpaws and Pillagers don?t always get along, the underlying connectedness of the separate individuals is vital to these stories. In Louise Erdrich?s world of dispossessed, alienated Native Americans, boundaries between families and kinship ties are often obscured and connections need to be discovered. For Erdrich?s characters, biological ties and nuclear families are less important than tribal kinship."
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"Love Medicine", 2002.
This paper examines the characters in "Love Medicine" by Louise Erdrich.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, £ 30.95
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This paper examines the characters of Marie Kashpaw and LuLu Lamartine in Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich. It examines what is significant in both their differences, and their eventual similarities and wht issues or themes their growth throughout the novel allow us to understand.
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?Love Medicine?, 2002.
Examines the role of the male characters in Louise Erdrich's "Love Medicine".
983 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 23.95
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Louise Erdrich's "Love Medicine" follows the lives of several Native American families through five decades, with the main theme of the novel being the struggle between continuity and change. The paper shows that despite the novel's focus on the women in the novel, the brothers Eli and Nector Kashpaw have great symbolic weight as embodiments of the tendency toward preservation and change.
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"Eli, on the other hand, was "the old bachelor of the family" and his only child was the wild, wayward June whom he adopted (8). Unlike Nector, Eli did not participate in propagating the tribe. He often sought solitude in the woods and this choice could have no issue except for June, who died. June's sons, who repeat the modern/traditional dichotomy of Nector and Eli also fail in these roles as June had failed in the role of mother. King -- who married a white woman and moved away -- was a weak man of no character whose modernity did nothing for the tribe and less for himself. Lipsha had traditional gifts but lost them when he cut corners and botched the love spell."
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"Love Medicine", 2005.
An analysis of the theme of food in "Love Medicine" by Louise Erdrich.
1,425 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 32.95
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This paper claims that there is a connection between food and conflict in the novel, then supports the claim with evidence from the book and personal analysis and interpretation. Food is a very important element in "Love Medicine" and much of the food references in the novel also revolve around conflict, which is a central theme in the novel. The writer shows how food and conflict often go hand in hand in "real" life, and the characters in the novel rely on food when times get tough.
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""Love Medicine" is an interesting novel that blends cultures, thoughts, and the beauty of the land into a haunting novel that is difficult to put down. The novel opens with June, and an image of colored Easter eggs in a bar. They represent June's conflict within herself, and her pull toward home, but a home that holds nothing for her. She is hungry for food, but she is hungrier to find herself, and she cannot, which is why she simply walks "home" after the encounter in the truck. June is like many Native Americans, caught between two worlds and really at home in neither."
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"Song of Solomon" and "Love Medicine", 2004.
Examines gyonecentric symbolism in "Song of Solomon" and "Love Medicine".
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 2 sources, APA, £ 21.95
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This paper examines Toni Morrison's novel "Song of Solomon" and Louise Erdrich's novel "Love Medicine" as illustrations of the gynocentric myth of identity and culture. It looks at the main characters and character development.
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"In both Morrison's Song of Solomon and Erdrich's Love Medicine one of the main purposes of the story seems to be to create for men a whole new way of thinking about their place in the world. What makes that way of thinking especially unusual is that their ..."
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"Love Medicine", 2001.
This paper is an analysis of the novel "Love Medicine" by Louise Eldrich.
1,630 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 36.95
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This paper is an analysis of the novel "Love Medicine" by Louise Eldrich. This novel plays on words and the emotions of people. While at one end the characters are concerned with their spirituality as it comes into conflict with their culture, at the other end they contend with the basic instincts of sexuality within their nature. The narrator creates a story of cultural assimilation. This contends that through assimilation the identity of the individual is lost.
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" The novel Love Medicine by Louise Eldrich is one that plays on words and the emotions of people. While at on end the characters are concerned with their spirituality as it comes into conflict with their culture. I.e. the conflict between Christianity and Native American Culture at the other end they contend with the basic instincts of sexuality within their nature. Combining the two thoughts the narrator creates a story of cultural assimilation. This contends that through assimilation the identity of the individual is lost."
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"Love Medicine", 2002.
The theme of alienation in "Love Medicine" by Louise Erdrich.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, £ 24.95
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This paper examines the theme of alienation in "Love Medicine". The causes, the manifestations, and the results of this alienation are analyzed. It explains that alienation is a way of life for native peoples.
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"Love Medicine", 2002.
Examination of Louise Erdrich's "Love Medicine".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, £ 24.95
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This review examines Louise Erdrich's book about the emptiness of materialism and the values of the modern world, which she sees as the road to native self-destruction.
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"Love Medicine", 2001.
The following paper examines and purposefully contrasts the characters of King and Liphsa in Louise Erdrich?s novel "Love Medicine".
1,025 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 0 sources, MLA, £ 25.95
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This paper discusses what Erdrich?s purpose was in making these half brothers, King and Liphsa, so different. It claims that the differences [ethnic background] do not eliminate differentiation of origins, race and inner beliefs. This paper contends that these factors cannot be changed even if an individual pretend to blend into a different kind of culture like Lipsha did in the book. This is what makes the brothers different from each other.
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?Louise Erdrich?s novel ?Love Medicine?, portrays the extraordinary life among the native Americans. At first reading, one does not clearly comprehend certain style of the writer?s but gradually once the theme and story line becomes commonly understood readers learn to interpret each of the scenes that is more in line with his/her own ethnic background. In Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine, we see the effects of American Natives going through a series of changes including their core religious and spiritual belief. Her characters, over a roughly fifty-year period, are seen grappling with the contradictory effects of this effort to, on the one hand, isolate the Native Americans on reservations, and on the other, make 'regular' Americans of them.?
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"Love Medicine", 2002.
An analysis of the novel "Love Medicine" by Louise Erdrich.
1,640 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 0 sources, MLA, £ 36.95
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The paper explores the problems in categorizing the novel, politics raised within it and the main characters. It studies both the internal and external conflicts in the novel and looks at the use of setting and imagery.
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"?Love Medicine? by Louise Erdrich is a novel that defies categorization. It is part Gabriel Garcia Marquez fantasy-fiction, part Hemingway?s down-to-earth working man?s (and woman?s) fiction, part Normal Mailer?s political-fiction. Erdrich chases the story of two families ? the primarily the Kashpaws and the secondarily the Lamartines ? through decades and generations of interactions and experiences. The two families? lives intertwine and intersect at several points, and the lynchpin to all of the stories varies between Marie and her granddaughter Albertine. The stories take place primarily on and around Indian reservations in North Dakota, and the Native American themes are present throughout the work. Erdrich does not overtly politicize ?Love Medicine,? but her background thematic structures lean heavily on the mistreatment of our Native American population and the unfairness of the reservation and allotment systems. The novel switches narrators often, which lends each character a unique and powerful voice. Erdrich?s general structure is to deal with a character in one chapter, and then give that same character his or her own narrative voice in the next chapter. These perspective switches allow us to create our own view of a character before that character has a chance to narrate and either modify or strike down entirely our view. Erdrich uses this structure to give her characters several layers and forces the reader to identify with characters who would otherwise be distant and a bit daunting."
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"Love Medicine", 2002.
Discusses Louise Erdrich's use of cars as a metaphor for materialism in the modern world.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, £ 30.95
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In "Love Medicine", Louise Erdrich uses cars as a metaphor to the materialism and values of the modern world, which she sees as the road to native self-destruction. In her novel, we clearly see how some natives finally allow themselves to be absorbed into white culture. For Erdrich, this cultural development is native suicide. One of her main metaphors, therefore, is how white society assimilates natives through the vehicle of the car.
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The Character of Marie in Louise Erdrich's "Love Medicine", 2001.
An exploration of the trickster figure in Native American culture and its presence in Erdrich?s fiction, and a general analysis of the story?s two main characters.
1,370 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 4 sources, £ 31.95
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"Nanabozho is the trickster hare of Chippewa tribal lore. He represents mischief, both playful and malicious deceit, and all things manipulative. Marie is a trickster. A main player in Louise Erdrich?s Love Medicine and the star of one of the book?s sections, Marie narrates the details of her adolescence with unflinching wit and attention to every graphic detail. Saint Marie (Chapter two in Love Medicine) tells the story of Marie?s experiences as a fourteen year old girl sent to live in a convent, and achieving a much-desired moment of sainthood by the folly of her main rival, the torturous nun Sister Leopolda. The theme of Marie?s seemingly indestructible spirit and wit, compounded by the oppressive atmosphere in which she fights for her individuality (nearly to the death) and emerges victorious is at the story?s heart. Everything in the text: Marie, Sister Leopolda, the convent, the nature of good and evil, all make their appearances as manipulative and deceiving at one point or another. "
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"Love Medicine" ( Louise Erdrich ) and "Winter In The Blood" ( James Welch ), 1995.
Examines fictional treatments of issues of gender and cultural roles among Native American populations.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, £ 32.95
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"Louise Erdrich in her novel Love Medicine and James Welch in his Winter in the Blood each address issues of gender and cultural roles among contemporary Native American populations. Both authors indicate how the Native American of today has been forcibly separated from the land and thought of his ancestors and what a devastating effect this has had on Native American society. In both cases, the writers speaks from a position inside that society. Erdrich shows more concern for feminist issues, as might be expected from a writer of her gender, while both writers express a sense of continuing loss in the Native American community and lay blame for this with the federal government and the institutions it has created for the administration and control of Indian affairs, with the land embodying both the traditions of the past and the tenuous hold ..."
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Modern Medicine as State or Corporate Medicine, 2007.
This paper asses whether modern medicine is state medicine or corporate medicine, citing examples from British and American history.
1,467 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 33.95
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In this article, the writer argues that the choice between state and corporate medicine is a relatively recent phenomenon. The writer notes that such a luxury sharply contrasts with the historical development of medical care, specifically during the nineteenth century in Britain and America, which sought, through the interventions of the state, to provide for the poor. From such a perspective, then, this essay posits that modern medicine is less about the choice between state and corporate provision than the foundations state medicine essentially helped create from which corporate medicine later benefited.
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"Chadwick believed that many of the illness and diseases which inflicted the poor would be lessened or even eradicated. Importantly, the implication of the lawyer's report was that these measures could only be carried out by the state at a time when Britain subscribed to the creed of political economy, which held the laissez-faire state to be a paramount virtue. Yet following Chadwick's report, a Royal Commission on the Health of Towns was set up, which met between 1843 and 1845, leading to Liverpool creating the first sanitary authority in 1846 which spawned similar bodies elsewhere. By the time the Public Health Act of 1848 was passed the important role of the state was set in stone: a central government department was created as the General Board of Health; local sanitary authorities were invested with powers to coordinate municipal responsibilities; and a local inspection regime was also created that appointed medical health officers. Consequently, by 1853, 284 districts and 103 towns had applied to adopt the Public Health Act. But the crucial characteristic of the Act was that, while it did concede the importance of the role of the state, it did not make the adoption of the Act compulsory."
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