Seeing Medicine Walk Through A Lens Of Reconciliation Quotes

Brooke McGee

D. Lefebvre

NBE 3U1 - 23

April 19, 2023

Seeing Medicine Walk Through A Lens Of Reconciliation The novel Medicine Walk by author Richard Wagamese, is a story about a father named Eldon Starlight and his son, Franklin on a “Medicine Walk” journey attempting to reconcile their broken relationship. The literary lens of reconciliation can be used in this novel to convey the message that reconciliation is needed greatly in Canada for Indigenous people. The author shows this by making Eldon, a “white” character, although he is Indigenous, he wasn’t raised in the culture due to colonization in Canada at the time, and Frank, his son, was raised by a man who taught him the importance of his Indigenous culture, and these two characters are attempting to reconcile their relationship throughout the novel. On the pages I have analyzed

In the novel, Frank says to Eldon “‘You think that’s all there is to it. Bein’ taken care of? Goin’ to school and bein’ picked on because you don’t know who the fuck you are, bein’ called Injun…’ ‘Just like me,’ Eldon said. ‘I ain’t nothin’ like you,’ the kid said. ‘Some parts, maybe’ ‘No parts. I never been no chicken shit’” (Wagamese 101). This part in the novel, Frank and Eldon are trying but struggling to mend their relationship by reconciling their differences and learning about each other before Eldon dies. While doing so they have come to realize that they have a lot in common but Frank does not want to believe it because he does not want to be anything like his father. He does not like his father, he left him when he was born because he was unable to take care of him, and Frank was not raised by his