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Truth and Bright Water
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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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