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Nector and Eli’s mother and the wife of Kashpaw and Nanapush. Rushes Bear is a “passionate, power-hungry woman,” and she spends much of the beginning of the book making Lulu and Marie miserable. Rushes Bear is given her name when she literally rushes a bear, and she is another example of the strength of women in Love Medicine.
Rushes Bear / Margaret Kashpaw Quotes in Love Medicine
The Love Medicine quotes below are all either spoken by Rushes Bear / Margaret Kashpaw or refer to Rushes Bear / Margaret Kashpaw. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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The World’s Greatest Fisherman Part 2
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She had let the government put Nector in school but hidden Eli, the one she couldn’t part with, in the root cellar dug beneath her floor. In that way she gained a son on either side of the line. Nector came home from boarding school knowing white reading and writing, while Eli knew the woods. Now, these many years later, hard to tell why or how, my great-uncle Eli was still sharp, while Grandpa’s mind had left us, gone wary and wild.
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Rushes Bear / Margaret Kashpaw Quotes in Love Medicine
The Love Medicine quotes below are all either spoken by Rushes Bear / Margaret Kashpaw or refer to Rushes Bear / Margaret Kashpaw. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
The World’s Greatest Fisherman Part 2
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She had let the government put Nector in school but hidden Eli, the one she couldn’t part with, in the root cellar dug beneath her floor. In that way she gained a son on either side of the line. Nector came home from boarding school knowing white reading and writing, while Eli knew the woods. Now, these many years later, hard to tell why or how, my great-uncle Eli was still sharp, while Grandpa’s mind had left us, gone wary and wild.
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