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- "When we are young," she observes wisely, "the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape."

(pg. 268) - Evelina

- Evelina demonstrates that the events of the past always have an effect on the future.

- She serves as a central connection to all of the characters.

- Her daily life in her community causes her to question who she is.

Our Personal Identity:

- Who are we?

- What shapes us?

- Reflects on her identity and how the past affects who she is-When we are young, there are many pieces that make our identity, but as we go on, we define who we are- She is lesbian- She is multi-racial

- narrator of story- young female of Native American and European descent

- connected to Mooshum- grandfather

- has a crush on Sister Buckendorf. Mooshum remembers Sister’s older relative Emil, who is out to lynch the Indians

- Corwin Peace- Evelina’s cousin who she once had a crush on; Peace’s- murder/ bank/ Maggie

The Plague of Doves:

Evelina

"I could not look at anyone in quite the same way anymore. I became obsessed with lineage."

(pg. 86) - Evelina

"Nothing that happens, nothing, is not connected here by blood."

(pg. 115)

- Judge Coutts

- Lineage is central part of Evelina’s life, her classmates and family center around that one killing, affects relationship with Corwin and with her family.- With Corwin- they share a common bond to incident- With family- Mooshum tells her of stories of incident-Evelina is multi-racial

- The Peace's- relate to the Judge/ Judge relates to Evelina- all connected by blood

- all have some connection to the killing

Evenlina demonstrates how family lineage ultimately impacts one's identity.

- current people in society all have a connecion to the for murderers

- piece of it together

- cobweb- symbol for connection between others

- relates back: no matter how far you go in life, certain situations can always have an impact on you

“I traced the blood history of the murders through my classmates and friends until I could draw our elaborate spider webs of lines and intersecting circles. I drew in pencil. There were a few people, one of them being Corwin Peace, whose chart was so complicated that I erased parts of it until I wore right through the paper. Still I could not erase the questions underneath…”

(pg. 86) - Evelina

"Now that some of us have mixed in the spring of our existence both guilt and victim, there is no unraveling the rope.”

(pg. 243)- Evelina

- rope symbolizes a physical connection

- ropes are intertwinned like the characters are

- ropes hold added weight- represents the emotional weight of the killing

- Evelina serves as connection between everyone

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