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Fleur by Louise Erdrich – Analysis

Posted on August 27, 2022August 27, 2022 by JL Admin

 Fleur Pillager is a symbol of female sexuality and mystique throughout Erdrich’s Chippewa saga. She draws the great practitioner of old Chippewa ways, Eli Kashpaw, to court her; she is rumored to have sexual relations with the water spirit Misshepeshu; she retains some form of magical and sexual power from the spirits; and her daughter…

Fleur by Louise Erdrich – Setting

Posted on August 27, 2022August 27, 2022 by JL Admin

 North Dakota in the Early  Twentieth Century  West of Minnesota, on the southern border of Canada, and within the large area of the central United States known as the Great Plains, North Dakota has an arid climate with extreme temperatures and a rural economy. Sparsely populated until the late-nineteenth century, the state has a history…

Fleur by Louise Erdrich – Literary Devices

Posted on August 27, 2022August 27, 2022 by JL Admin

 Magic Realism  Pioneered by post–World War II Latin American writers such as Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez, magic realism is a literary technique in which supernatural elements appear within an otherwise realistic narrative. Magic, spiritual powers, and inexplicable paranormal events all may be elements in a story employing this technique, which tends to…

Fleur by Louise Erdrich – Themes

Posted on August 27, 2022August 27, 2022 by JL Admin

 Female Power  One of the most important themes in Erdrich’s story is that of female power. The situation at Kozka’s Meats is somewhat like a battle between the sexes, in which Fleur, Pauline, and Fritzie have their own methods of dealing with a brutish, dangerous group of men. Daring and fearless Fleur is the most…

Fleur by Louise Erdrich – Characters

Posted on August 27, 2022August 27, 2022 by JL Admin

 Tor Grunewald  Pauline says as a kind of summary, from an unspecified period of time in the future, that “Power travels in bloodlines, handed out before birth,” which implies that Fleur was responsible for the deaths of the men. She says that now she is about the only one who visits Fleur, who lives on…

Fleur by Louise Erdrich – Summary

Posted on August 27, 2022August 27, 2022 by JL Admin

 “Fleur” begins by stating that Fleur Pillager was only a girl when she drowned in Lake Turcot, which is located in Native American reservation in North Dakota. Two men dive in and save her and, not long afterward, both disappear. Fleur falls in the lake again when she is twenty, but no one is willing…

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