Love Medicine

Love Medicine
Detail of beadwork from an Ojibwe medicine pouch

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Motifs and Symbols

When you discover images, motifs, themes and symbols that Alexie uses repeatedly, post them here with the quotes in which they appear. Also reference page numbers. Once you've found some symbols, motifs, themes, etc, comment on them.
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6 comments:

nitsudd said...

one motif i noticed was the repititive use of the word "Drums" on its own line (page 88). i think this is a symbol for victors heart beat.

January 17, 2008 at 2:54 PM
Shayan said...

Drugs

January 18, 2008 at 9:35 AM
Priscilla said...

Mirrors!
"Crazy Mirrors, I thought, the kind that can never change the dark of your eyes and the folding shut of the good part of your past" (58).
"Tonight the mirror will forgive my face" (113).

January 18, 2008 at 10:02 AM
Jessika Whitbeck said...

the motif of baseball and how the baseball cards relate to dreams is somewhat of a recurring motif in the story.

alcholism

January 18, 2008 at 11:52 AM
Jordan Harry said...

the warrior motif, alexie uses it a lot to describe the indians warlike past and maybe commmentary on the indian condition, in that they have always had to fight to survive spiritual and in the real world

January 24, 2008 at 9:08 AM
THA DENN-MISTER! said...

Horse motif is used alot, horses played a powerful roll in native american culture. the horse represents freedom from today like in a drug called tradition, victor's stolen horse is named Flight and Crazy Horse being such a prophet like figure.

January 24, 2008 at 9:26 AM

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