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A 6 page paper which examines and compares the narrative technique in Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine and Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach. No additional sources cited.
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They are very different novels but yet at the same time they are clearly both seeking some sort of balance in understanding the past, the present, and the future as
it involves individuals and the various relationships between the generations. The following paper examines the narrative techniques of the authors as they address this element of their perspective stories. The
paper examines each story separately and then compares and contrasts the two. Narrative in Love Medicine In Erdrichs novel the stories and characters who tell their stories, and
there are many of them, all seem to ultimately revolve around one woman, June Kashpaw. The reader is introduced to the woman in the very beginning of the novel and
the reader is told her story in this narrative, and also told how she dies which is ultimately what sets the stage for all the other characters as they tell
their stories and attempt to understand themselves and others, including other generations. The narration begins, "June...was a long-legged Chippewa woman, aged hard in every way except how she moved. Probably
it was the way she moved, easy as a young girl on slim hard legs, that caught the eye of the man who tapped at her from inside the window
of the Rigger Bar" (Erdrich 1). From this moment her short story continues until she is alone and wandering in heavy falling snow where she will apparently die and
thus bring in many other characters, all of the narrative style of not only detailing who exactly June was, but who all the people connected to her are and how
they are all ultimately connected. It is a very powerful form of narrative for it brings in acquaintances and children, lovers and just people. Many may well say that the
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