Book: The sentence by Louise Erdrich, page 365Compose a summary of the selected passage. summary should be between 3-6 sentences.Research unusual words or phrases (you should select at least 3), including references to historical events and culturally specific terminology. List these words and type your definitions or explanations.Compose 2-3 questions from the selected passage for discussion All Saints' DayIT WAS AGAIN that time of the year when the veil betweenthe worlds is thin. However, this year the veil had been rippedasunder. It was gone. After Pen told me about the quatrefoilshe kept talking. She told me that in the medieval view therewere rifts, holes, tears in space and time through which demonsand human evils can erupt. Hatreds boil through the cracks.Even one person of a certain magnetism in this time can seizethe energy and cause a maelstrom to form around each sentencethey utter. One person can create a giant hurricane of unrealitythat feels like reality."That's what's happening,' she said. 'Just look around.'I didn't have to. I felt like I could see everything-hatred,valor, cruelty, mercy. It was all over the news and in the hospi-tals and all over me. Watching and waiting for word of Polluxhad turned me inside out.I saw the families in parkas at the windows, holding uptheir love signs. I saw the old paper hearts, curled, the newpaper hearts, still vivid. I wore fear like a cape. Fear was mysack pants, my black runners. I always carried along Pollux'sdim brown plaid man shirt and favorite old jeans. Every day Igot an update. Pollux was back to holding his own again. Oneday improvement, the next day worse. I tried not to shift mythoughts with every new voice on the phone. I'd never knownPollux to be afraid for himself, but he'd never been so helpless.For a while in my life I'd lived with the certainty that I wouldbe held in love, and now I was sleeping in a parking lot. For awhile in his life, Pollux had been held in love, and now he wasmarooned in a hospital bed on the other side of a wall.

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Book: The sentence by Louise Erdrich, page 365

Compose a summary of the selected passage. summary should be between 3-6 sentences.
Research unusual words or phrases (you should select at least 3), including references to historical events and culturally specific terminology. List these words and type your definitions or explanations.
Compose 2-3 questions from the selected passage for discussion

All Saints' Day
IT WAS AGAIN that time of the year when the veil between
the worlds is thin. However, this year the veil had been ripped
asunder. It was gone. After Pen told me about the quatrefoil
she kept talking. She told me that in the medieval view there
were rifts, holes, tears in space and time through which demons
and human evils can erupt. Hatreds boil through the cracks.
Even one person of a certain magnetism in this time can seize
the energy and cause a maelstrom to form around each sentence
they utter. One person can create a giant hurricane of unreality
that feels like reality.
"That's what's happening,' she said. 'Just look around.'
I didn't have to. I felt like I could see everything-hatred,
valor, cruelty, mercy. It was all over the news and in the hospi-
tals and all over me. Watching and waiting for word of Pollux
had turned me inside out.
I saw the families in parkas at the windows, holding up
their love signs. I saw the old paper hearts, curled, the new
paper hearts, still vivid. I wore fear like a cape. Fear was my
sack pants, my black runners. I always carried along Pollux's
dim brown plaid man shirt and favorite old jeans. Every day I
got an update. Pollux was back to holding his own again. One
day improvement, the next day worse. I tried not to shift my
thoughts with every new voice on the phone. I'd never known
Pollux to be afraid for himself, but he'd never been so helpless.
For a while in my life I'd lived with the certainty that I would
be held in love, and now I was sleeping in a parking lot. For a
while in his life, Pollux had been held in love, and now he was
marooned in a hospital bed on the other side of a wall.

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Introduction

Louise Erdrich is a American novelist who is part Ameri Indian. Her novels to a large extent have indigenous contexts and characters. In this novel, The Sentence too we find the narrative in the voice of Tookie an Indigenous American who takes us through the hate and violence she encounters in Minneapolis the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd. The selected passage captures that part of the novel that discusses the aftermath of the killing and the violence that ensues.