Love Potion Analysis

Why do you think the Cherokee Nation use animals within their stories? After understanding the YouTube video, “Love Potion” by Robert Lewis which is an old fictional story from the Cherokee tribe passed down from generation to generation. It spoke of a shy clumsy man being in love with the most beautiful woman in the tribe. However, her feelings were not reciprocated and while the man was crying in the woods, he found a mole. The mole had given a potion for the woman to fall in love with him, and it was successful, but the mole spoke to him and told him to never speak of where he had received the potion from. The man had later told his whole village where the potion was to be found which caused the mole to go into hiding. Understanding

The setting receives major importance on topics spoken of as it is related in terms of tribes, and the workings behind the story. It allows the storyteller to let the reader feel simulated into the story as if the reader were there and can endure the imagination of the story. Lewis tells the reader how the setting of the tribe was of importance, and how love was of significance back then. According to, AmericanIndia.Si.edu significance ties into the plot of the story as animals in Native American tribe stories are used as values and spiritual ideologies within storytelling, and each animal within Native American tribes is used in certain methods (Native, para. 2). Animals within life have gone through various journeys, but most remain in clans and never separate. This ties into Native American tribe history because each tribe travels together as a group, and never separates from each other to show their loyalty to their tribe. Their love of nature and the world around them allows a factor to be taught through, symbolizing where the stories take

The Cherokee Nation stories that are passed down from generation to generation will always have a message behind them that you need to think of with animals. Every Native American tribe has spoken of various terms and stories that correlate to another story. While not everything each tribe speaks of in the story will not be the same, the point of view allows the reader to view what the author was speaking of in the text speaking. Intertwined into this text, the style allows the reader to know what is further directed and said aloud as this is an oral story with terms of tribes, love, betrayal, and animals to represent current times. As moles usually live underground, and in the Cherokee Nation story the mole went back into hiding after people were searching for a love potion. The story connects the theme of “Love Potion” by Robert Lewis and animals, Native American tribes specifically the Cherokee tribe will use animals as a way of describing the values of the tribes and the spiritual beliefs that are in place. The furthering idea is to share personal stories that will be passed down from generation to generation with each Native American