Read “Fleur,” by Louise Erdrich
Questions for Paragraph , pick one to write your thoughtful reaction.
1. How is discrimination against Native Americans evident in this story?
2. Do you attribute Fleur’s powers to supernatural sources or to myth and legend? Explain.
3. In what way is the narrator of the story responsible for what happens to Fleur, and by extension, to the men who are trapped in the freezer and die?
4. Discuss the story’s final lines: “The girl is bold, smiling in her sleep, as if she knows what people wonder, as if she hears the old men talk, turning the story over. It comes up different every time and has no ending, no beginning. They get the middle wrong too. They only know that they don’t know anything.”
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