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In "Heart Berries"  by Terese Marie Mailhot deals with the conflict with her culture identity and how her spirit and beliefs make her a stronger women. Her culture as an Indian woman, was more focused on how women are inferior to men, and how men were more powerful. Cultural identity is the way that one's culture affects and shapes a person into who they are.  Mailhot's culture taught her that she was inferior, and that shaped her into not believing in those ways, forming her into the strong woman she had become.

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The novel “Heart Berries” by Terese Marie Mailhot, describes the life of an Indian woman who is disrespected and ignored. Terese Mailhot struggled with her life and culture living as an Indian woman. She was living as a disrespected and a practically “invisible” citizen. Her grandmother advised her to live with the current situation and not to do anything about the disrespect given from the men. When her grandmother died nobody was there for moral support other than her mother, who brought healers. One of the healers offered advice stating that Terese didn’t need to be nice. Her mother then implied that she needed to fight for what she thought was right. From that point on she became trouble for people, not being nice to the men and not answering their questions or calls. Later through her life her mother had passed away and was forcefully pushed away from her home. This caused her to marry as a teenager seeking somewhere safe and somewhere she could be supported, not a place she could find love. There’s had 2 children of which one of them was taken from court from the father after he left her. This chapter of the book shows more than just enough information about how culture has many views and how Terese’s culture had little respect for women and disregarded them.

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Terese Marie Mailhot (autobiography)
Pgs 14-19

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Kyson Thomas
Abel Torres
Brooke Ritzenthaler
Jillian Oandasan

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In her society, Mailhot was told that she was inferior. Since she was told this, it had put down her spirits and beliefs. She figures out that she doesn’t want to be in this society and thought of living. She shows that just because something bad happened in the past, doesn’t mean you aren’t strong. She was about to stay strong and keep going for her son, her late grandmother, and herself. Just because there have been some bad things that’s have happened in the past, doesn’t mean that you can’t still be strong and keep going.

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Mailhot’s describes her external conflict with the society around her, but also her internal conflict with herself.
In her external conflict, she describes how men were considered inferior to women, that sometimes women were just forgotten from society.
In her internal conflict, after her journey to be free from her society’s views, she realizes that she is guilty of following society and its wants. She describes how she is still struggling against her past self thoughts against her current ones.

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Mailhot’s voice in her story is mostly informal. She wrote her book as if she was talking to a friend, telling them what she went through.

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 As an Indian woman, it was not easy for Terese Mailhot. She struggled with her culture and life style. Terese was consistently disrespected and ignored. In the first chapter Terese says, "Indian girls can be forgotten so well they forget themselves(Mailhot 15)". This statement proves how women were ignored and disrespected along with this one; "I learned how story was always meant to be for Indian women: immediate and necessary and fearless like all good lies(Mailhot 17)." She had gotten married as a teenager after her mother died so she could guarantee a safe home and living. Eventually they separated and her son was given to her ex husband while her other newborn baby was completely forgotten by him. As Terese put it, "the ugly of that truth, is that I gave birth to my second son while I was losing my first(Mailhot 17).” Men were considerably higher than women so the court was automatically on his side for the kid, even though his newborn baby was ignored by and not a concern for him.

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 As an Indian woman, it was not easy for Terese Mailhot. She struggled with her culture and life style. Terese was consistently disrespected and ignored. In the first chapter Terese says, "Indian girls can be forgotten so well they forget themselves(Mailhot 15)". This statement proves how women were ignored and disrespected along with this one; "I learned how story was always meant to be for Indian women: immediate and necessary and fearless like all good lies(Mailhot 17)." She had gotten married as a teenager after her mother died so she could guarantee a safe home and living. Eventually they separated and her son was given to her ex husband while her other newborn baby was completely forgotten by him. As Terese put it, "the ugly of that truth, is that I gave birth to my second son while I was losing my first(Mailhot 17).” Men were considerably higher than women so the court was automatically on his side for the kid, even though his newborn baby was ignored by and not a concern for him.