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This 3 page paper discusses Louise Erdrich and her story “The Red Convertible,” and the way her background influenced her when she wrote the story. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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they bought one year. This paper discusses the story and how events in Erdrichs life influenced the work. Discussion "The Red Convertible" is a short and tragic story of the
damage war does to people. Lyman and his brother Henry Junior live on a reservation, but Lyman is a hard worker and soon makes enough money to buy a car-the
red convertible of the title (Erdrich). The two boys drive all over the country one summer, and while theyre gone, Henrys draft notice for Vietnam comes (Erdrich). When they return
from their road trip, Henry reports for duty and is sent to Vietnam. He leaves a happy, funny, extroverted young man and comes back a bitter, cynical, cruel and miserable
man (Erdrich). We never find out specifically what he did, or what was done to him, only that his memories of the war eat at him, turning him mean and
making his family despair of ever helping him. Finally, Lyman takes a hammer to the car and wrecks it, just in the hope that Henry will notice, and do something
about it, which he does (Erdrich). He repairs the car until its almost good as new, and the two decide to drive again; the stop by a river and it
seems everything is fine, but Henry is too far gone to be helped. He jumps into the river and drowns; Lyman sends the car in after him (Erdrich). What is
it in Erdrichs life that may have influenced her to write something like this, with its humor and its deep, underlying sadness and sense of hopelessness? First she, like her
characters, is Native American. She knows the kind of suffering they have gone through because she share in it ("Louise Erdrich," 2006). Perhaps even more important is the fact
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