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Realism or Fiction?

            
             Reading this story poses many questions as to whether or not the narrators are telling the truth or are they using a smokescreen to keep us engrossed in what seems impossible? I 've come to conclusions that the narrators are not very distinguished from one another, but they do tell their stories with a grain truth. It holds value for its location and the premise of which seems realistic historically.
             I want to point out some siginificance of each narrator and the tensions between their point of views of Fleur, the main character, with scenes from chapters 7-9.
             In chapter 7, Nanpush is describing the accounts of Lulu's illness and the struglled she endured as a young girl (165-167). He's conveying his compassion as a father and also expresses his feelings towards a woman's suffering as if his endurance of his granddaughters pain is not enough for the reader (167).
             Other than Pauline givjing us just her side of emotions within her narration, how she feels about her life and why she must suffer physically for her sins (192), Nanapush gives us everyones perspective on the onset of the cold and starvation they endure as a family. .
             On the other hand, Pauline is only showing her incompassionate feelings towards Fleur. This is part of her growth into the person she wants to become and not for the real Pauline. She uses Nanapush to signify her conversion into the White religion (196). She detracts from the reality of what she's going and only tends to gives us the spritiual aspect of her journey as a woman. Nothing is positive and nothing is represented as facutla because we can only get a visual of her mind and not the outside world. Pauline can't be trusted for the events she records in her own narration. How do we know she's not hallucinating because of her deal with suffering for God and condemning her will power and desires? Nanapush is her nemisis and we can't take sides with her if she's in a battle with her faith and Satan.


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