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Truth and Bright Water

Ch. 5-12

Women's Roles

  • Motherly instincts
  • Disconnection with women
  • Women represent connection
  • ""Everything was pretty much squares and triangles." "What happened?" "Who knows."" (p. 61)
  • "It's one of those obsession things that women get." (p. 61)

By Lanie Alaniz & LeAnn Bishop

People as a Border

  • Liminal space
  • Mother vs. Father
  • "You're beginning to sound like your mother." (p. 81)
  • "What's your mom's new boyfriend like? ... You'd tell me if she had one, right? ... We're still married, you know." (p. 82)

Key Points

  • Aunt Cassie and Tecumseh's grandmother
  • The quilt
  • The skull
  • Lum chasing the train
  • The camping trip
  • The delivery job
  • Aunt Cassie's and Tecumseh's mother's past

Heritage and Race

  • Heritage as a way of consumerism
  • Mixed feelings of race, hypocrisy
  • "Canadian jails are worse than the Mexican ones. ... Mexican jails are full of Mexicans ... Canadian jails are full of Indians." (p. 85)
  • ""Yeah, but people only have two legs." "In the olden days when we were smarter ... we had four."" (p. 73)

Lack of Answers

  • Questions are ignored
  • Problems are avoided -> No movement
  • Speculation on the unsolvable
  • "Who knows?"
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