{"id":802,"date":"2018-04-12T16:18:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T16:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-nativeamericanlit\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=802"},"modified":"2018-04-12T16:18:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T16:18:19","slug":"approaching-fools-crow","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-nativeamericanlit\/chapter\/approaching-fools-crow\/","title":{"raw":"Approaching Fools Crow","rendered":"Approaching Fools Crow"},"content":{"raw":"<em>Fools Crow<\/em> should be an interesting read for you.\u00a0 Remember to mark up your book on passages you find interesting.\u00a0 Make connections.\r\n\r\nThere are some key themes that recur, and it\u2019s important to note these.\u00a0 When reading a big book, it\u2019s important to pace yourself.\u00a0 If someone says \u201cI couldn\u2019t put it down,\u201d then it was probably not a book worth remembering.\u00a0 We know that long reading sessions usually result in readers remembering only the beginning and the end of their reading for that time.\u00a0 Break it up!\u00a0\u00a0 Be specific in your reactions.\u00a0 It\u2019s not going to be enough that you recall events generally.\u00a0 You might not have the memory of people who lived in oral cultures!\u00a0 I list especially good quotes in a notebook.\u00a0 (If you do this, practice putting the page in after the quote.)\r\n\r\nThe novel is a form that allows you to immerse yourself in the action.\u00a0 Welch does this here, but he also recreates Indian life in the 1800s.\u00a0 The term for recreating life faithfully is \u201cverisimilitude.\u201d\u00a0 In other words, he is capturing what was.\u00a0 But, he\u2019s also working <em>against<\/em> what other writers have said, so in this sense he really is recreating things.\u00a0 I hope that you find the book an easy one to \u201cget into.\u201d\u00a0 Remember the ideas we\u2019ve mentioned about serious literature.\u00a0 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