ENG100H1 Lecture Notes - Human Events
Document Summary
The question is- why did lulu"s mother sent her to the residential school. Lulu can"t take place in society or community without knowing/ understanding why she was sent to the school- nanapush know the destruction she brings- he must reconcile lulu, unlike what he did with pauline. Lulu"s reconciliation with the community is heroic in nanapush, but he failed with pauline. Key interventions: setting the allotment era: important era- oral storytelling can give an insight to a character. Christianity affects te community but the chippewa myths, legends and traditions are still present: narrative point of view, layering of history with individual acts of intervention how to read for decolonization. It seems that everything has turned against them- nature, gov. , land, community and the people. Setting tells a lot about character and what the gov. did with the land. The spirituality is still present in the community traditional christianity and the traditional spirits of the ojibwa.
