How Does Louise Erdrich Use Imagery In The Round House

The Round House is a novel written by Louise Erdrich. The main characters are Joe Coutts, Gerdaline Coutts, Judge Coutts, Cappy, Linden Lark, Linda Wishkob, Sonja, Uncle Whitey, Mooshum, Mayla Wolfskin, Father Travis, and Pearl. One day, Joe’s mother, Geraldine drove to her workplace to pick up a file after receiving a call from Mayla Wolfskin. When she reached her workplace, she was raped, kidnapped, and almost got killed. Later, devastated by the attack, she refused to leave her room. Joe’s dad, Judge Coutts, tries to find the person who did this to his wife and imprison him. Joe also tries to find the person who did this to his mother along with his friends, Angus, Cappy, and Zack. Edrich uses imagery to show sexual violence against indigenous

In the book, “That’s where it happened. He kept the sack on me. And he raped me. Somewhere” (159, Erdrich, The Round House). This demonstrates Linden Lark's perspective of hating Indians, and how he justified his hatred toward Indians by approaching Gerdaline rudely and raping her. Erdrich uses imagery here to show how Lark treated Geraldine terribly and how disrespectfully he approached her. Additionally, it indicates to the audience Lark's hostile behavior toward Gerdaline. This is important because it reveals Lark's perspective on his hatred towards Indians and how he used that hatred to approach Gerdaline, an indigenous woman disrespectfully and raped her. Geraldine is dragged into the Round House by Lark, who then pulls the sack off her and unties her there. In the book, “Afterward, after. He dragged me up to the roundhouse. It took a while to get three. Was he marching me around? I was sick. I don’t remember. At the roundhouse, he untied me and pulled off the sack and it was . . . it was a pillowcase, a plain pink one” (160, Erdrich, The Round House). This depicts Linden Lark's perspective of hating Indians and how he justified his hatred toward Indians by treating Geraldine cruelly and dragging her inside the roundhouse, untying her, and pulling the sack off her. Erdrich uses imagery here to emphasize how Lark handled Geraldine poorly and how crudely he approached her. In addition, it indicates to the audience Lark's hostile behavior toward Geraldine. Furthermore, this is important because it shows Lark’s perspective of hating Indians and using his identity of rudely approaching Indians and treating them badly because he dragged Geraldine into the roundhouse untied her, and pulled the sack off her. Now I would like to conclude my