68 pages 2 hours read

Tomson Highway

Kiss of the Fur Queen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

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Essay Topics

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Using textual evidence and your own research, discuss the context and significance of the two epigraphs to the novel.

2.

Reviewers have called the descriptions of Champion and Gabriel’s births two of the most beautiful depictions of childbirth in recent fiction. What in your opinion makes these descriptions so special? What do they illuminate about Cree cosmological concepts of childbirth and conception?

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Jeremiah is known as Champion, Champion-Jeremiah, and Jeremiah at different stages in the text. How do the three identities differ from each other?