![]() ![]() At times in the book, pathways are trackless, showing that the place being traveled to has not been visited before. Pauline follows in Bernadette’s “tracks,” learning how to prepare the dying.Īll of these are examples of the way the characters travel through their lives, looking for clues as to how to live. For Nanapush, Eli, and Fleur, hunting requires following an animal’s tracks until it can be killed. In general, footsteps reveal some symbolic meaning about the nature of who they belong to. Fleur’s tracks look like those of a bear, indicating her connection to the spirit world, and Pauline’s tracks show that she wears her shoes on the wrong feet, in an offering to God (and as a sign of her cultural and spiritual confusion). Clearly the book has been named after this symbol, and we see the concept returned to again and again throughout. ![]() Tracks and trails, how they’re used and what they indicate, are an important symbol of the journey of the Anishinabe people. ![]()
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