Essays on The Red Convertible

Though most of author Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine takes place on a Native American reservation in North Dakota, the setting also reflects an over 50-year span of changes – a mix of old and new experiences. Love Medicine encompasses the lives of numerous major characters,…

“I did not ask for the things that i’ve been through, and I certainly did not ask my mind to paint and repaint the pictures in flashback form.” Although the author of this quote is unknown it sheds light on the truth about post traumatic…

What does ‘On the Rainy River’ by Tim O’ Brien and ‘ The Red Convertible’ by Louise Erdrich share for all intents and purpose and what likenesses may both of the sections share for all intents and purpose? ‘On the Rainy River’ happens in Canada…

In the short story, The Red Convertible by Louise Erdrich, Henry Lamartine is a free-spirited and loving older brother. Henry and his younger brother, Lyman, buy a convertible sports car together and go jet setting across their country. Later in the story, Henry is sent…

Brothers’ Bond In “Sonny’s Blues,” by James Baldwin and “The Red Convertible,” by Louise Erdrich, both protagonists struggle to overcome certain obstacles in an attempt to understand and help their brothers with their hardships, hoping to form or rebuild a brotherly bond. Sonny from “Sonny’s…

On the Topic of “The Red Convertible” Despite the romanticized glorification of war by some, reality has proven that war causes detrimental loss and the damnation of lives long beyond conflict’s physical grasp. War, beside any conceived necessity, justifiably carries connotations of supreme loss. Of…