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The Plague of Doves
by
Louise Erdrich
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The Plague of Doves Questions and Answers
How do Billy and Corwin Peace evolve as characters in The Plague of Doves?
How many narrators are in The Plague of Doves?
How are attitudes towards sexuality in the Ojibwa and Christian traditions represented differently in The Plague of Doves?
How does Erdrich depict vengeance versus justice in The Plague of Doves, and what choice does she guide us towards?
This novel begins (appropriately enough) with a plague of doves. In your opinion, what does this plague represent? Why is it the event for which the entire novel is named?
What would be lost if there were only one point of view in the novel The Plague of Doves? And who do you think could tell the novel?
In Louise Erdrich's novel, The Plague of Doves, what is the ethnicity of the major characters Judge Antone Bazil Coutts, Corwin Peace, Marn Wolde, Uncle Warren Wolde, and Dr. Cordelia Lochren?