In Chapter 7-8, both Nector and Marie Kashpaw narrate their story in first person about their life when they were together and when they were not. Nector explains about his life when he was in Kansas in 1957. Where he was given two hundred dollars to pose naked for a painting by an old woman. The resulting image depicting him jumping off a cliff and realized the fact that the people over there want to see the Indians dead, so he was saddened and goes back home. This showed that racism was still prevailing at the time when Nector was dealing with the whites, he says that, “The only interesting Indians is dead or dead by falling backwards off a horse” (Erdrich 120). Nector also developed a crush towards Lulu, but he was attracted towards …show more content…
Lyman narrates his story and tells us about the time when he and his brother, Henry Junior, bought a red convertible and the two were very fond of the car. They drove the car all over the country. He also tells us about the time when a girl in Montana asked for a ride to Alaska. The two brothers agreed and they drove all the way to Alaska. Both of them lived there for a while, but Henry Junior was called for duty in Vietnam and went away. He wrote some letters back before his imprisonment. After his arrival though, he “…was very different, and I’ll say this: the change was no good” (Erdrich 182). Henry Junior was annoyed by every little thing and that he was no doubt mentally disturbed. Lyman would damage the red convertible, so that Henry Junior would fix it. This was because Lyman decided that this would help him to be occupied and think about the damage of the car and not the war. One day Lyman and Henry Junior go for a ride, where the two had a brief fight that ended in laughter. Henry Junior wanted to cool off and thus he jumped into the water. Due to the strong current of the water he drifted off and disappeared. Lyman jumps in too in order to find and fails to do so. He then gets in the red convertible and drives towards the river and jumps out of the car. The red convertible plunges into the river and