Love Medicine

Louise Erdrich is a fiction author as well as a poet. How does her prose style evoke poetic devices, and what effect does this style have on the development of theme and character?

In what ways is it unavoidable for the Ojibwe characters to engage with the white-dominated world? Write an analysis identifying these conflicts and how Erdrich proposes that characters can navigate them.

Louise Erdrich structures her novel through time lapses, flashbacks, and a select genealogy of the Lamartine and Kashpaw families. What is the effect of this structure on the development of theme and character?