Love Medicine

Your final “exam” is a third short essay (3-5 pages, double-spaced) on Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine. In short, it’s an expanded version of our first discussion post: Decide what you think is the single most interesting theme in all of these stories. Examples: love, healing, history, Native identity, womanhood, family, religion, etc. Make a clear argument about what you think Erdrich is trying to say about that theme. Back up your argument with good textual evidence: quotes, details from the story, symbols, style, structure, etc. I’ll grade these using the same rubric from your first two essays. In general, show me that you’ve read most of the stories and that you can make a clear interpretive argument about this text as a whole. (Once more, feel free to use online study guides, but of course, don’t plagiarize them. I’ve enabled Turnitin to check.) Per usual, feel free to email me with questions or to set up a Zoom conference. And I always recommend taking advantage of the Writing Center  (Links to an external site.) , open until December 6.