Richard Wagameses Novel Medicine Walk

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Many subjects pertaining to indigenous culture, family dynamics, and life as a minority are covered in the first 6 chapters of Richard Wagameses’ novel Medicine Walk. Although the discussion of the main character, Franklin, and his dedication to steer away from ending up like his father, Franklin, is what I find the most intriguing. This is because we end up adapting many of the traits and quirks of the people we dislike the most unironically, and can be subliminally observed in the first few chapters.

In the initial chapters, one could witness the disdain Franklin has for his father, mostly owing to the fact that he was abandoned by his dad at a very young age. This can be found on page 26: “his father had drifted in and out of that life
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