![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A homecoming (or homing) theme is very important to this novel as well as other Native American literature. Likewise, a love triangle among Lulu, Marie, and Nector also is a fixture between the narratives even though it is not a constant theme in the novel. Although she dies at the beginning, June holds the novel together. Love Medicine begins with June Morrisey freezing to death on her way home to the reservation. ![]() However, it also incorporates the Euro-Indian experience especially through the younger generations who have been forced by government policy to accept, if not possess, Euro-American culture. It draws from Ojibwa myths, story-telling technique and culture. The tone of the novel is very conversational and indicative of the storytelling tradition in Native American culture. The narratives follow a loose chronology aside from the first chapter (set in 1981). There are, however, five chapters that are told from a limited third-person perspective. These narratives are very conversational, as if the narrators were telling a story, often from the first-person perspective. Love Medicine is Louise Erdrich’s first novel, published in 1984.Įach chapter is narrated by a different character. ![]()
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