SOLAR STORMS

THE PROLOGUE IS A HEALING PROCESS - BY AGNES TO ANGEL – Black – Dark Snow – Winter
The house is crying – personification.
Bones floated up in broth the way a dream rises to the top of sleep – parallelism.
In the dream I saw your mother beneath ice, underworld- poseida
Hair is a woman’s glory = Bush (black hair) cut it when Harold left her for Loretta (red hair)
Prologue Characters

 Frenchie
 Jarrel Illinois
Main Characters (order of mention)

 Agnes Iron – Great GrandMother

 Bush – Surrogate Grandmother
 Hannah Wing – mother = ICE
 Dora-Rouge – Great Great Grandmother – the old and luminous elder of the house. Care of
Angel. Her hope is to come back to the Fat-Eaters.
 Angel Wing/Angela Jensen
 Rue
 Tommy Grove
 John Husk – Angel’s partner more or less
 Harold – grandfather, Agne´s son, Hannah´s dad, Loretta’s partner, Bush’s ex-partner
 Loretta Wing – Harold’s parner. = ICE
 Rue – mixed-blooded from south Dakota.
 Tommy Grove
 Luther – Dora-Rouge’s dead husband
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A. WATER
Water nurturing spiritually. Water nurtures
Interaction with the water that is make her grow
Water appears in multiple forms of the water
Water fluid abilities – transformative
Tears
Water have healing abilities
We should be aware of water because it is also dangerous
Water is Bush element
 B. WATERSCAPES
Signification – other undertandings of water
Waterscapes as sites of resurgence
Fluid and dynamic geographies: the border with Canada and usa
Colonial maps where made with the help of indigens explorers
Bush is trying to find that in the map but the water has changed.
Dora has the mpas in her memory because she cross the water when she was a child.
Dora talks to the river she has to learn the language of the river but she doesn’t remembered to
well. (a pact)
Personal resurgence – in the way of cultural resurgence
2- Water as agent and as catalyst of transformation and empowerment.
Angel – rite of ninitiation (Cree)
THE JOURNEY – Odyssey
Dora-Rouge’s water pact – demands interdependence and sacrifice (a ceremony)
Agnes and Dora-rouge – water as living entity with a language and will of its own.
Relationality and reciprocity – chapter 12
Learn to survive by themselves
Angel grews
If you don’t respect water, it becomes evil
Canoe Journey – journey as a trope in Am lit.

CONNECTIONS BETWEEN HUMAN AND MORE-THAN-HUMANS- ALTERNATIVE

CARTOGRPAHIES

BEAVERS LAND MAKING TRANSFORMATION CAPACITY

C. Environtmental justice – environtmental racism
Ice is a form of water. – the mos important
D. BEAUTY
E. SPIRITUALITY
Bush put food in a bowl for the spirits, to listen her, mainly the spirit of ice.
“The food taken into our bodies – holy sacrament of you we ate”.
F. ETHICS OF CARE

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 G. CONNECTIVENESS
“ what happened to you started long ago. It began around the time of the killing of the wolves. When
people were starving”
Fire is not hell, cold is

1. THE RETURN TO ADAM’S RIB 1972 – I WOULD NOT RUN THIS TIME
Written in past tense, adolescence seventeen.
Adam’s Rib description – “where the land and water had joined together in an ancient pact, now
broken”. As the bond with Hannah and Angel.
Fur Island – solitary, unfamiliar and poor place. An strange and foreign territory.

ANGEL WING – IDENTITY

“Rootless teenager in a jeans jacket and tight pants, dark red hair, dark face,” and THE SCARS. “Scars
had shaped my life” – una malota
Strong “never cried, ink-blue cross
3 rooms
Room of fear – the darkest one
Fear of everything: silence, closeness, (love), motionlessness. Made her run for all her host families.
Room of anger- fire-red
New Room – silence deeply, entering her fears head on = SHARE RAGE AND HISTORY.
The Abandoned Ones – They were an ill-sorted group form by Cree ancestors, Anishinabe and Fat-
Eaters (no existe) from the north.
Bush, was from the Chickasaw from Oklahoma just as the writer Linda Hogan.
Rue, come in search of refuge away from crowded places. He hated what men were capable of.
Historicity – Wounded Knee Massacre – 29 of December, 1890) – memory , people older than dora
wanted nothing to do with the new world. However, in spite of they had witnessed (matchimanito –
Nanapush) they all had the peacefull look of those who had hope, those who still believe that their
people and the buffalo would return.
Tommy Grove – graceful young man, beautiful hands. “He hunted and fish to provide the old people with
food”. ETHICS OF CARE.
Tommy is one year younger than Angel but he was more powerful in strength for leaving in death’s
territory.
THE NOVEL IS LOCATED IN 1972.
Agnes coat – significant: She never took off her coat even in summer until Angel come back.

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ALL THE DARKNESS, WINTER AND SADNESS DISAPEAR WITH HER RETURN – HOPE
Ethic of care – “If I stay, I can care for the old woman to earn my keep”
HELL IS COLD NOT HOT
Husk – desire to prove htat the world was alive and that animals felt pain.
Harold vanished.
Start Agnes narration . 1938, when Loretta came for the first time. Pain, secret sorrow.
No one liked her, she was quiet and women were talkers here. Her silence scares us.
SHE BROUGHT THE DARKNESS AND ICE?
Maybe silence is where trees start to freeze or where darkness and ice begin.
Loretta From the Elk Islanders, people who became so hungry that atevthe poisoned carcasses of
deer that the settlers left out for the wolves. Scar beneath her eye. She also has a scar.
WHAT COME WITH HER WAS A BAD SPIRIT
The curse on that poor girl (like Fleur) was to watch the desperate people of her tribe die.
She had been taken and forced by men who fed her and beat her. THAT WAS HOW SHE BECAME THE
ONE WHO HURT OTHERS.
WE JUDGED HER – WE WANTED TO BLAME SOMEONE LIKE HER – WE WANTED TO HATE HER BUT
LORETTA WASN’T THE ORIGINAL SIN (pecado).
Harold and Loretta catch a Ferry and left. Loretta come back “out of the water” without Harold, with
Hannah, was 10?

2. THE STORY OF THE COAT AND SCARS QUESTION

3. SPARK OF ENVIROMENTALISM REVOLT

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