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The Author Louise Erdrich's Adoption Of June

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The author Louise Erdrich by depicting Marie's adoption of June she is trying to prove a point that as you open your heart up to someone you see past their negative qualities and end up seeing the goodness inside of them but in the process you tend to forget those negative qualities which may end up getting you hurt. Marie is shocked to see her niece,who she probably didn’t know too well show up at her house in mysterious circumstances, the Lazares that found her came and then went “stumbling off, holding each others sagging weighted arms.” The author aids to the circumstance by using parallel structure and similar syntax to show the fast and awkward manner they arrived and left when they had came to drop June off from Marie to …show more content…

Initially Marie didn’t seem to show much affection towards her, the Author aided this feeling by constantly referring to June as a “she” which makes her seem more like a object of burden. Erdric didn’t describe June like a person is rather she is connected to other people or beings “ she was like me.” and “Sometimes I thought she was more like Eli.” The repetition of words such as “like” that connect June to people Marie knows which later act as form of attraction which leads Marie to love June. In fact the author's word choice leads me to infer June became Marie's favorite for “ I would want to hold her against me tighter than any of the others.” The words “I would want to” indicate that there was something she saw in her that made her love her a great deal, usually if someone does something it’s either because they want to or have …show more content…

The author depicts Marie cleaning June’s “scalp [which] must have burned.” and then she creates an image of how the pain affects June in which “she just kept her eyes screwed shut and plainly endured.” This connects back into Marie’s childhood when she had to bare several punishments in her catholic school but she wouldn’t give up, she didn’t let the pain affect her. The connections to her past aided in her fondness she displayed towards Marie “the devil had no business with June.” Marie had thought the devil was with her when she was younger and to see someone who the devil had no business with made June seem even more attractive to

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