Love Medicine

Love Medicine
Detail of beadwork from an Ojibwe medicine pouch

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Does anyone else find it interesting the problems even the most religious seeming people have? In this book the family seems righteous, but their inner problems are those of many.
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4 comments:

Maryclaire said...

I don't think that just because they are religious they expect to have no problems. I can see how other religious people come off that way like allen lovejoy, but i think the Madsens over anybody else, are very willing to admit that just like anybody else they have they fair share of faults. I can see how this statement is true seeing as Sunny sneaks out, and the parents fight. But sunny openly admits her feelings to Edgar and the parents inform the children of any marital issues it seems.

March 22, 2009 at 9:31 PM
lawrence said...

yea i agree with maryclaire. everyone has problems no matter if they are highly religious or not. atheists can have happy lives too. the only thing that the madsens have over normal families is that they talk about their issues with their children to some extent instead of hiding it from them.

March 23, 2009 at 10:30 AM
Maryclaire said...

I don't know though, my opinion sort of changed after our class discussion today.. I realized that the Madsens don't nessecarily air out their dirty laundry for everyone to see, but I don't think it is because they are religious, I think it is because of the high pressured community they live in, and in a lot of ways that pressure is caused by the mormon religion. So yeah, you made a good point alex.. I still think that problems happen to all sorts of people though, religious or not.

March 23, 2009 at 2:54 PM
makenzie kozojet said...

Just because they are a notably religious family doesn’t mean that they wouldn’t have the same problems as everyone else but I did expect them to handle them a little bit differently. For example I don’t know what I expected Clay to do when he found out about her relationship with Barry, but I didn’t expect him to go crazy letting all the animals loose and potentially harming them. He seemed so kind and composed until that part of the book although he rightfully deserved to get mad.

March 23, 2009 at 3:18 PM

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