Analysis of Pauline Puyat’s Tracks­ Essay -- Tracks

Analysis of Pauline Puyats Tracks adept of the most striking characteristics of Pauline Puyat is her devout Catholicism and her desire to be disconnected from the Ojibwa people. Throughout Tracks, she openly chooses Catholicism over her native worship and abandons her native ways almost completely. When Pauline tries to help Fleur pr dismantlet a miscarriage, she is literally held back by her conscious separation from the Ojibwa culture. There be many things that Pauline fails to do to effectively prevent Fleur from miscarrying. The most evident is her failure to efficiently put together the herbal steep do of Alder And I could not remember the plants configuration, even though its use was common enough for bleeding problems (156). Although Pauline could be nervously forgetting the properties of Alder, this forgetfulness of a basic remedy stresses her abandonment of Ojibwa society and its practices. The get down of stored plants makes Pauline even more nervous prepa re after Plant Some were shaped like a mans forficate legs and some were rolled in balls...I put fort...