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The Wenandigo By Louise Erdrich Analysis

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Octavio Macias Mrs. Barr English 10A SS 12 june 2024 Gothic Literature analysis of Wendigo Gothic literature is a writing style that has death, horror and fear. The Gothic elements are Bleak setting, Gothic villain, Gothic themes, gloomy mood and recurring symbolism. The poem Wendigo by Louise Erdrich. The wendigo is a piece of Gothic literature because it has all the elements that Gothic literature needs to have. The Wendigo by Erdrich is a piece of Gothic literature because it has a Gothic villain. In the beginning of the poem, the wendigo is trying to take a little girl away from her parents, to eat her. “But I spoke in the cold trees. New one, I have come for you, child hide and lie still. (Erdrich 9-10)” A Gothic villain is a supernatural …show more content…

The wendigo as the gothic villain is the reason why the poem by Louise Erdrich is Gothic literature. Erdrich poem the wendigo is a piece of Gothic literature.The poem has death brought up many times and that is a recurring symbolism. “The sumac(n. bright shrub or small tree with multi-part leaves and fruit clusters) pushed sour red cones through the air. Erdrich 11: “The bushes we passed until they stood, naked, spread like the cleaned spines of fish. (Erdrich 19)” The recurring symbolism in this poem is death. The small tree, the sumac, is a recurring symbolism because it looks like blood on the snow and cleaned spines of fish is another recurring symbolism of death. The poem by Erdrich, the wendigo, has a recurring symbolism which is death. Death is brought twice a year. Erdrich poems, the wendigo is a piece of Gothic literature. The poem has a bleak setting. As the text says “Towels flapped on the hooks, and the dog crept off, groaning, to the deepest part of the woods (Erdrich 3-5)”When the dog crept off to the deepest part of the woods, that would have been scary for the little girl, and that gives the bleak setting of the poem, which is the

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