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This 5 page paper examines the chapter called "Lulu's Passion" from this book which describes life in post-colonial America. This paper focuses on the hardships that Lulu endured. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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of Lulus Passion provides readers with the heartbreaking tale of the fictional Lulu, whose pain and suffering become nearly inextricable from our own. In this way, the author has
provided an intensely authentic character and dialogue, beckoning readers back to a post-colonial era with the intention of making the experience as authentic as possible. Lulus Passion therefore serves
as a potent reminder of the hardships of the era it represents, evidenced by Lulus removal from her mother and the ensuing ramifications of that event. In the authors
pursuit of the authentic use of colonial discourse, she creates for readers a rich and compelling story. In this story,
Lulu is forced to go to a school away from her mother, and she finds it almost incomprehensible that her mother is willingly giving her up, without so much as
a warning. "A mothers hand should never lie to a child" (Erdrich, p. 241). She is literally put into a car and driven away from her mother, at
which time everything she knows and trusts in the world is revoked from her. "As soon as he wrote down the name - as if with his marks he
somehow suddenly possessed the spirit of the child - abruptly the child climbed into the auto and was swallowed into the dark as into the body of a fish" (Erdrich,
p. 243). Erdrich has the amazing ability to show genuine compassion for her complex characters, writing from several different points of view (Olson).
It is interesting to understand how the author employs the use of mimicry in order to recreate the feeling of the era. According to Bhabha,
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