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Ace of Water
Summary: Essay discusses Louise Erdrich's work of "Love Medicine."
They never kept me in a school for too long. They've never kept me anywhere for too long actually, I'm a Nanapush, and I take after my father, Gerry. When I was eleven, I sat in my third school for my second year and sixth week, trying hard not to fall asleep as the teacher droned on and on about how we needed to learn our times tables. I decided it was time then to use my usual strategy of escaping the walls of Education Prison. I had picked a tarot card the night before, and it read that I would start over because that's what you do when you pick an ace out of the deck; it's the first number out of them all. I had picked the Ace of Water, so I figured I had to go. I slowly raised my hand at a moment when...
This section contains 1,411 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) |