Literature Section 3 Flashcards
What were the events of the book Solar Storms inspired by?
The James Bay Project, Hydro-Quebec’s 1971 controversial hydrodam construction on the La Grande River in northwestern Quebec.
What does Solar Storms revolve around?
Environmental concerns and features themes related to Indigenous cultural preservation.
What is the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement in 1975?
The first written contract in Canada that explicitly represented the rights of Indigenous peoples.
When was Solar Storms first published?
1994
What type of story is Solar Storms?
Bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story.
What time is Solar Storms set in?
The novel is set in the 1970s
How are parts of the novel Solar Storms written?
Stream-of-consciousness.
What does stream-of-consciousness give readers access to in the novel?
Angel’s innermost thoughts, dreams, and desires, as well as those of her grandmothers.
In the novel Solar Storms, who dies while approaching Two-Town?
Agnes
What gift does Angel inherit from her ancestors?
The gift of being able to see through water and to dream of medicinal plants.
How did Angel figure out that Hannah was dying?
Angel had a dream of Hannah dying.
Who are the Fat-Eaters?
A tribe who refers to themselves as The Beautiful People but were renamed by European settlers.
The controversial Hydrodam in Quebec affected which surrounding communities?
The dam affected the Cree and Inuit communities.
Between what state and country was Angel born?
On the border of Canada and Minnesota.
Angel falls in love with a boy, what is his name?
Tommy
What does Angel vow to herself in Chapter Two?
She vows to never run away from her family.
Frenchie asks Angel about her scars, how does Angel react?
She is ashamed and angry, so she breaks the bathroom mirror.
What do the traditional people of Fur Island believe?
They believe that water is a spirit that rules their lives, establishing an interconnectedness with the respect for water as they rely on it for survival.
Who teaches Angel about the history of Fur Island?
Husk
What is the problem at Lake Chin in chapter 4?
Fish have been dying by the hundreds.
What is the issue with the James Bay project?
It diverts water, displaces people, compels animal migration, and changes the local climate.
Who warns the townspeople about the reservoir expansion project in the North country?
Two young Indian men.
Who helps Bush, Angel, and Aurora escape the reservoir expansion protests?
Mr. Orensen
Why was Fur Island mostly submerged in water?
The river was moved.
Who does Angel reunited with and marry?
Tommy
Who’s house burned down?
Tulik
Who did the police threaten violence against?
Angel and Dora-Rouge
Who helped Bush, Angel, and Aurora escape after the baby was teargassed and fell ill?
Mr. Orensen
Why does Angel return to Adam’s Rib?
To find her blood relatives.
Who is Dora’s relative?
Tulik
What mode of transportation does John Husk use to take Angel to Fur island
A boat
What weird felling dose Angel feel when nearing Fur Island
She feels like she’s moving backwards and forwards at the same time
What covers the Fur Island as Angel gets there
Bones
What is special about the river that year
Its record low and fish appear to be dying at record rates
Who tells Angel the history of the island when they arrive
Husk
Who shows up to take Angel fishing and how dose she feel about it
LaRue and she is appalled by it
Who dose Angel begin a friendship with
Tommy
In Bush story After Hanna locked Bush out where did Bush find Angel and what was wrong with her
Angel was silent, turned Blue in the cold and was found in tree branches
In chapter 9 of Solar Storms, where does Dora-Rouge want to go and what does she want to do there
she wants to go home to die
Who is Ruby afraid of leaving the baby with
Hannah
What dose Dora-Rouge call Angel because of her weird dreams
a “plant dreamer.”
What type of magazine does Husk read
a science one
What theory dose Husk come up with after reading the magazine
That Angel and Dora-Rouge live in the past, present, and future all at the same time
What animal does Angel see slowly get stalked and killed by a pack of wolfs
Moose
What scientist does Husk use to show his theory about the islanders
Albert Einstein
The traditional people of Fur Island believe what is a spirit that rules their lives
Water
What are the “primary components of the environment” in many Indian lives
sky, ground, subterranean realm, waters, atmospheric processes, plants, animals, & more
When Angel arrives to Bush’s home, what is Bush doing?
collecting bones & putting them in the museum
Angel shows herself opening to the natural world by doing what in her bedroom?
Opening her windows while she sleeps to allow the elements to come in.
Chapter 5 is a short chapter, consisting of mostly what
Questions which Angel interrogates the nature of the world. Ex: how her mother survived the “Storm”
Angel learns from her elders that the world of nature & the world of humans is…
One in the same
Dora-Rouge & husk describe the land as populated by primarily…
Love
Chapter 6 is primarily focused on…
“Intergenerational trauma, memory, & suffering
“The Power of Song” is able to…
help to heal
During a particularly harsh winter, Hannah had cut all of her hair & what had happened to baby Angel?
She went missing. she was “Silent & blue in the branches of a tree”
What is Angels half sisters name?
Henriet
Why would Angels half sister scar herself?
to show how she could’nt be harmed from the outside in.
Winter in Chapter 9 is described as…
“filling in the world, like a scar”
Angel recognizes that she is made of broken parts that want to become whole, like…
the Island
Whose house is burnt down by the worker in chapter 19?
The workers burn down Tulik’s house, and many things are lost.
At what age was Angel placed in foster care?
She was placed in foster care at the age of five after her mother, Hannah Wing, physically abused her.
Who does Angel think of when she steals food from worker in chapter 19 (who is she trying to replicate)?
Angel thinks of Wolverine and steals some food from the workers.
Whose dogs are shot at in chapter 19?
Mr. Orsen’s dogs
What place does Aurora get help at for her sickness in chapter 19?
Chinobe
T/F. Bush notices LaRue is a changed man in chapter 20.
True
How was Dora Rouge’s death?
Dora-Rouge dies softly in the place to which she has wheeled herself among the moss and trees that survived the flood.
In what chapter do Tommy and Angel marry?
Chapter 21
Where was Angel born?
Adam’s Rib
How was Angel’s childhood?
Angel has spent her childhood moving from one foster home to the next, feeling unwanted and unable to connect with anyone due to her circumstances.
What is Dora Rouge’s relationship to Angel?
She is Angel’s great-great-grandmother
What is the named of Dora-Rouge’s late husband?
Luther
What was the previous name of the Fat-Eaters and why did it change?
It was The Beautiful People. It was changed to the Fat-Eaters by European colonizers upon their arrival in Canada.
In what river does Dora-Rouge have to make a pact to cross it because is too dangerous?
When the Se Nay River becomes too dangerous to pass, Dora-Rouge makes a compact with the water that allows the women to survive.
Who’s Agnes’ love interest?
Agnes and John Husk have a romantic relationship.
Who is Angel’s mother?
Hannah Wing
Why does Angel decide to return to her birthplace?
to reunite with her mother
Why does Angel steal from her foster homes?
to replace missing affection
Why does Dora-Rouge accompany Bush and Angel?
to return to her homeland
Who does Dora-Rouge meet when they reach the north?
Tulik
Which animal does Agnes befriend as a child?
a glacier bear
What does Agnes ask Angel to do after she died?
give her body to the animals
Who takes in Hannah and tries to help her?
Bush
Who helps Angel bury Hannah?
Bush
Where is Bush originally from?
Oklahoma
What is Loretta’s signature scent?
almonds
What does Angel realize about Loretta and her mother’s almond scent?
it’s reminiscent of cyanide
What was Loretta’s Tribe called?
Elk Islander
What animal carcass was Loretta’s tribe forced to eat?
Deer
What happened after the tribe ate the deer carcasses?
they all died of poisoning, except Loretta
Solar Storms emphasizes the danger of viewing the land in what way?.
primarily as an extractable resource
Dora-Rouge and Angel recognize what mentality their referring too as what?
a self-imposed “forgetting” of how to live in the world
What did the Indians consider allies?
animals, trees, fishhooks, and hammers,
How do dam workers view the land (act on it)?
subdue it rather than form symbiotic connections with it.
What prompts them to see Indigenous cultures as ignorant or backward?
same lack of understanding
What is used as an excuse to strip indigenous people of their land?
they believe that they are ignorant or backward
What does Hannah Wing and Angel have in common?
they were both removed from their families,
What do dam supporters not recognize?
either Indigenous nations or the land itself as inextricably linked to human and global survival.
What do the state of their indigenous people bodies mirror?
mirrors various traumas experienced by the land and animals
Who ignore the fact that rerouting the water poses significant risks to the environment and to the people of Sovereign Nations.
The dam builders, police, soldiers, and corporations involved in the project
True or False: people were being rewarded for doing action that could damage the environment
True
What did the men want to build?
hydroelectric dam
The people who wanted the dam built wanted to do what with it?
control the water
Controlling the water means to control over what 2 things?
the population, incorporating the Tribal communities
What do the dark, brown, dreary houses in a line in a place named Poison serve as reminders for? (Angel empathizes with this place but she had felt sorry to come home to)
reminders of the intergenerational trauma absorbed by the people who dwell in them
Describe the ecological mindset that Angel had that helped heal her (along with her immersion in nature)? (Hint: What does Linda Hogan try to encourage the reader to see through Angel’s perspective?)
home as more than a house so that we too may equate the planet’s healing with our own
In Solar Storms, Hogan describes indigenous people who are scarred, tired, vacant, drowned, and/or dead to mirror what other traumas?
the traumas experienced by the land and animals as they feel the devastating impacts of the dam construction
How does the construction of a dam allow for tribal communities to be controlled without their consent?
controlling the water leads to control over the population which incorporates the tribal communities into the ‘progress’ of the developed world despite the communities not consenting