The Flood (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Joy Foster
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Plot: Magical Realism
- Time of Work: 1971
- Setting: An Oklahoma Indian reservation
- Principal Characters: The narrator, An unnamed sixteen-year-old Creek girl, Her parents, The man who lives by the lake, The female elder of the Creek tribe, The crazy woman
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s
- Locales: Indian Reservation
The Story
In the first of two first-person narratives, a Creek tribal member recalls the events leading to the death of a sixteen-year-old Creek girl. In connecting these events with the Native Indian myth of the watersnake, the narrator emphasizes the importance of old myths to the survival of the Native American people. The narrative voice then switches to the girl herself, who underscores how the myths of her people have “soaked into my blood since infancy like deer gravy so how could I resist the watersnake, who appeared as the most handsome man in the tribe.”
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