Love Medicine Essay
Elizabeth Juarez
Mr. Sullivan
English 1B
17 March 2015
“Love Medicine” The story “Love Medicine”, by Louise Erdrich, takes place in the 1920s in North Dakota. Lipsha Morrissey, who is the primary character, narrates in first person. From the beginning, Lipsha was taken in from his grandma and grandpa Kashpaw and by the looks of it, Lipsha is passionately loyal to his grandparents, especially to his grandma. His grandparents live in a town at a senior citizen home. His grandma is more of a determined and motivated person rather than his grandpa is aggressive and unfaithful. Lipsha has a gift of being able to heal, which is the gift of the medicine touch. The medicine touch is by Lipsha helping elderly people by making hand motions onto their body to help them feel better or make their problems go away. Knowing that Lipsha’s grandpa has obviously been aging, becoming senile and sick, and also claims he has second-childhood, is trying to help his grandpa with his medicine touch. As the story progresses, grandpa Kashpaw administers an affair with another woman by the name of Lulu Lamartine, that also lives at the senior citizen home. Lipsha believes that grandpa Kashpaw’s mind is lost, but he still insists on chasing Lulu. As for grandma Kashpaw, she wants Lipsha to use his gift of touch to make grandpa Kashpaw loyal to her. Lipsha’s touch does not work on grandpa and therefore he is bothered to see the problems this has caused between his grandma and grandpa. In the story, Lipsha is the focus of “Love Medicine” because he plays an important role between the affects that the medicine of love can have on people when he tries to fix it, believing in having a great idea, and what happens when messing with love medicine goes wrong. Many people have different ways and ideas to fix something or someone. Such as in the story, love medicine is a healing coerce that some people have a natural gift for like Lipsha. Love medicine and medicine touch are both defined
Mr. Sullivan
English 1B
17 March 2015
“Love Medicine” The story “Love Medicine”, by Louise Erdrich, takes place in the 1920s in North Dakota. Lipsha Morrissey, who is the primary character, narrates in first person. From the beginning, Lipsha was taken in from his grandma and grandpa Kashpaw and by the looks of it, Lipsha is passionately loyal to his grandparents, especially to his grandma. His grandparents live in a town at a senior citizen home. His grandma is more of a determined and motivated person rather than his grandpa is aggressive and unfaithful. Lipsha has a gift of being able to heal, which is the gift of the medicine touch. The medicine touch is by Lipsha helping elderly people by making hand motions onto their body to help them feel better or make their problems go away. Knowing that Lipsha’s grandpa has obviously been aging, becoming senile and sick, and also claims he has second-childhood, is trying to help his grandpa with his medicine touch. As the story progresses, grandpa Kashpaw administers an affair with another woman by the name of Lulu Lamartine, that also lives at the senior citizen home. Lipsha believes that grandpa Kashpaw’s mind is lost, but he still insists on chasing Lulu. As for grandma Kashpaw, she wants Lipsha to use his gift of touch to make grandpa Kashpaw loyal to her. Lipsha’s touch does not work on grandpa and therefore he is bothered to see the problems this has caused between his grandma and grandpa. In the story, Lipsha is the focus of “Love Medicine” because he plays an important role between the affects that the medicine of love can have on people when he tries to fix it, believing in having a great idea, and what happens when messing with love medicine goes wrong. Many people have different ways and ideas to fix something or someone. Such as in the story, love medicine is a healing coerce that some people have a natural gift for like Lipsha. Love medicine and medicine touch are both defined