Analysis of literature: prose (2 assignment)
Buildings of
painted brick, gleaming white. The cracked whitewash and swallows nesting in the busted
ends of eaves. Boards sawed the size of broken windowpanes and the fruit trees, stripped.
Goldenrob rubbed up the walls. It was a poor convent. Humble, ragtag, out in the middle
of no place. End of the world to some. Where the maps stopped. - Satan took over with
certain things, including alcohol and "Indians."
7. Sum up the influence of Catholicism on the Chippewas (based on what you have read so
far).
Catholicism hasn't replaced Native American customs and religion so much as claimed its
own jurisdiction within those customs, perhaps the Catholic God isn't entirely responsible for
everything around them at the reservation.
8. Present Sister Leopolda. How is she different from other nuns? What is her attitude to
Indians? Perhaps she is sent to test her Sisters' faith, here and there, like the spot-checker
in a factory