The genre of fiction is always fun to read and sells more because there could be many unexpected turns of events in each story which mesmerize the readers. One such is the example of The Round House which is a fiction book written by Louise Erdrich. This is the novel number 14 by this author. According to some experts, if we match the themes or revenge, this novel seems like a sequel to her novel The Plague of Doves. To get The Round House Pdf, click the free download link given at the end.
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The Round House was originally published in 2012.[1] The novel is set in 1988 and is narrated by thirteen-year-old Joe Coutts as he attempts to avenge his mother after she is brutally raped.[1] Erdrich wrote the novel while diagnosed with cancer, and has stated in interviews that the diagnosis impacted her productivity and passion for writing, though she was still able to write and publish The Round House, as well as a children's book and a new, revised version of her novel The Antelope Wife.[5]
Erdrich was heavily inspired by the works of William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha novels.[6] Because of this, Erdrich's novels, including The Round House, are all primarily set in the same fictional location centered around the people who lived there throughout multiple generations.[2] The Round House, specifically, takes place in the same reservation as one of Erdrich's previous works, Plague of Doves, and the same one that appears in the conclusion to the trilogy, LaRose.[2] However, the significance of this North Dakota reservation, similar to the reservation in Erdrich's Love Medicine series, stems from her own upbringing as an Ojibwe[7] child in North Dakota.[6]
Joe Coutts, who is the narrator of The Round House, is an adolescent teenager when the events of the novel take place.[1] Joe is unaware of sexual violence and laws that prohibit tribal citizens from seeking justice. Julie Tharp explains how his mother's rape puts Joe in a difficult situation, as he is beginning to view women such as Sonja as sexual objects, but bares witness to his mother's misery from the hands of male sexual aggression.[9] Joe is surrounded by male role models who exhibit different forms of masculinity, with some exhibiting sexual abuse towards women and others exemplifying leadership and restraint such as his father, Bazil.[9] When Joe blackmails Sonja, she confronts Joe claiming he is no better than the other men she deals with.[1] Joe rejected Whitey's abusive treatment of Sonja when he quit his gas station job, and as Tharp outlines, this incident forces Joe to consider a toxic cycle of misogyny.[9] Joe's masculinity also comes into effect when he plans to kill Linden by preparing his plan of drawing him out on the golf course and murdering him for abusing his mother.[9]
The Round House explores the paradox of men's attitude toward women, particularly Native American women. The round house in the book is meant to be a physical reminder of what this attitude should be: women are sacred and should be treated with respect and honor. This ideal is exemplified in the marriage of Joe's parents, Bazil and Geraldine, and in an immature but sincere way in the relationship between Cappy and Zelia, who feel their love was sent from God.
Tragically, this ideal is contradicted in almost every other relationship in the book. Geraldine is raped and beaten by Linden Lark. Mayla is sexually exploited by the governor and sent away to raise her child, only to be abducted and murdered. Joe's aunt Sonja suffers abuse at the hands of her former manager and then Whitey, who has promised to take care of her. Even Mooshum and Joe objectify her. Through these characters and the events surrounding them, author Louise Erdrich drives home the notion that the abuse of Native American woman is epidemic. One in three become the victim of rape at some point in their lifetime and the overwhelming number of rapists are non-Native. Geraldine's rape by a white man, near the round house, mobilizes this theme from the opening pages of the novel through the last chapter of the book.
Read Or Download The Round House By Louise Erdrich.==> -6586.blogspot.com/?book=0062065254The Round House won the National Book Award for fiction.One of the most revered novelists of our time?a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life?Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves with The Round House, transporting readers to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. It is an exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family.Riveting and suspenseful, arguably the most accessible novel to date from the creator of Love Medicine, The Beet Queen, and The Bingo Palace, Erdrich?s The Round House is a page-turning masterpiece of literary fiction?at once a powerful coming-of-age story, a mystery, and a tender, moving novel of family, history, and culture. 2ff7e9595c
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