About the Author/Novel
The year that Linda Hogan was born
What is 1947?
The main protagonist of the novel.
Who is Angel/Angela?
These schools forcibly removed Indigenous children from their families and communities.
What are residential schools?
17-year-old Angela returns to ______________ to find her family.
Where is Adam's Rib?
Bush is forced to sell ___ to afford her journey.
What are furs?
What is the Chickasaw Tribe?
Angel's abusive mother who caused her scars.
Who is Hannah Wing?
Characters in the novel suggest that colonization and resource harvesting have made Westerners forget how to live in harmony with __________.
What is nature?
John Husk takes Angel to ________________ by canoe and teaches her the history of the island.
Where is Fur Island?
This character gets increasingly sick on the journey.
Who is Agnes?
Solar Storms is written in this style that follows the innermost thoughts and dreams of the main character.
What is a stream of consciousness?
An elder & tribal judge who leads the protests against the dam builders and has his house burned down.
Who is Tulik?
This American novel genre sets a journey of freedom, exploration, and self-discovery against the backdrop of the vast US landscape.
What is the Road Novel?
Hannah cuts her ______________ after giving birth to Angel and locking Ruby out of the house.
What is hair?
This group did not want electricity because they believed that once you used it you would become dependent on it.
Who are the fat-eaters?
A controversial hydrodam on the La Grande River on the border of Canada and the US that inspired the events in Solar Storms.
What is the James Bay Project?
The first wife of Harold and caretaker for Angel.
Who is Bush?
The theoretical framework that analyzes the relationship between literature and the environment.
What is ecocriticism?
This is who Angel believes has helped her learn her history.
Who is her grandmother?
BEEVCO workers surround this character's house to disrupt the protesters.
Who is Tulik?
Solar Storms falls under this genre of novel about the moral and psychological growth of the main character.
What is Bildungsroman?
A flamboyant Cree woman known for her red lipstick, perfume, and pearls.
Who is Franchie?
Sociology, geography, anthropology, phenomenology, and narratology are the disciplines of ___________________.
What are environmental place theories?
This object, in chapter 10, this object Angel remarks, has seen generations of time.
What is an iron teapot?
These characters marry at the end of the novel.
Who are Tommy/Angel?