... of detail provided about how they are reacting to each other in different situations is abundant and intentional: He touched a strand of her hair where it lay along the pillow. She did not turn. A tremor passed through his limbs. He felt the sweat grow cold on his back. He rolled off her and ... lay still, (p. 266) The reason Dorcey provides so much detail for each event between the couple is so that the reader can relate and understand what ... valid excuse to leave her husband and daughter for another woman. It is the opposite of what is normally seen in our society. The husband is b...

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... the younger generation to war, due to what she feels is pride-lead stupidity. World War I was a severe and terrible war, marked by young men dying in some of the most horrible conditions ever possibly imagined. These women, being ambulance drivers, saw this on a regular basis. They saw their own friends ... innocent school girl away at a fun little summer camp, when in fact on a regular basis she's dealing with " Men with hopeless dying eyes who don't want to die men with hopeless living eyes who don't want to live " (Smith 96). Another pillar of femininity that Smith seems to ... lay ...

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... on the Miracles at Little No Horse, Erdrich switches some of the roles. There is a woman priest, and a homosexual Native American crossdresser, as well as other role switches. Also, our society is taught that the conqueror is motherly, teaching and protecting the conquered. In The Last Report on the ... is not the only way that Erdrich uses religion to blur borders. Erdrich uses the differences between Ojibwe religion and Catholicism to do this, as well as sexuality. The Ojibwe were polygamous, while Catholicism allows for only one wife. Catholic priests are supposed to denounce polygam...

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... separate holes. Without even speaking, both suddenly began trying to make their individual holes a larger single hole (p 65). It was here when they lay down on the mud at a "180-degree angle" from one another that they formed the single linear soul that they really were (p 69). ... (p 69). Now it seemed that what Nel had thought was maturity, serenity and compassion was only the tranquillity that follows a joyful stimulation: "Just as the water closed peacefully over the turbulence of Chicken Little's body, so had contentment washed over her enjoyment." (p.170) This passage reveals that...

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... his girls all the way up until the moment before his death. He opens his eye as if to peek at them to see what they are doing. This parting of their father is grotesque. The dying man opens one eye and only glares, watching the moves they are making. The daughters feel ... other; he would not allow it and they are not strong enough to go against him and speak up. He lay[s] there, purple, a dark, angry purple in the face, and never even look at them when they [ come] in. Then, as [ are] standing there, wondering what to do, he [ suddenly opens] one eye. Oh, what a ... fiercely at the dar...

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... of her sexuality is terrifying to her "I hate to think I've got to grow up and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China aster-(4). Jo also considers that being a girl is a waste of time because she can't do anything that is really important. The only ... "I can't get over my disappointment on not being a boy, and it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa, and I can only stay home and knit, like a poky old women- (4). "As she spoke, Jo took off her bonnet, and a general outcry arose, for all her abundant hair was cut short ... stories, whic...

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