Analysis of literature: prose (2 assignment)
6. Describe the Sacred Heart Convent. Explain the sentence: `Where the Dark One had put in
thick bush, liquor, wild dogs, and Indians' (45). It is on top of the highest hill, the
windbreak is planted before the bar ,,for the purposes of tornado insurance". 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