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Windflower

Gabrielle Roy, the author of , shows us through her main
character, Elsa Kumachuck, that isolation can have unfortunate effects on an
individual and the people around them. We, as readers, are in the beginning
given the impression that Elsa is a fit mother who is responsible and knows how
to raise her child properly. Later on though, we realize that it's the
influence of other people in her life and the experience of isolation later on
that lead her to make the decisions that she does.

Elsa Kumachuck was at one time just a carefree teenager, going to the
theater to watch movies, laughing with her friends, and discussing sex. Her
whole life changes in one night though, when Elsa is ...

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her own life to herself.

Although Jimmy is a joy and a blessing to Elsa, he also creates a
conflict for her. She does not know whether she should raise him as an Eskimo
like herself, or white like the father. Elsa takes advice from a lady she once
worked for, named Madame Beaulieu, the only white woman she knew. Elsa is soon
dressing Jimmy as the white do, and is keeping her hut clean and tidy. The
people from the Eskimo society are in awe at the beautiful baby with blond,
curly hair, and the ways in which Elsa is raising him. They always want to
borrow Jimmy and they even start to bathe their children as Elsa does, at the
same time every day. Elsa is proud to be the mother of the baby whom everybody
seems to want, and she tries to make decisions that are in the best interest of
her child. These decisions however, anger her mother, Winnie. Winnie believes
that Jimmy should be raised according to the ways of the Intuit only. So when
Elsa decided to go back to work for ...

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Added: 5/26/2005 07:58:00 PM
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