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Trapped inside herself bc lost something that was wholly hers and cannot come back to herself.  She is reduced to less than human in multiple ways as she is just evidence.
"Thinks he owns me but he'll find out he don't" (142)
Whole job was stripper became her entire being
Gov. mockery of Native Americans and abusive toward them
Only appreciates that what he knows of himself-violence

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people are trying to take Linda away from who she is, loses her identity and only make it about her looks/race
father travis cant choose who he is or what he wants now
sonja cant be herself because whitey is controlling her
pg 142 "Yeah. Thinks he owns me. But he'll find out he don't, huh? Am I right?"

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I never realized how toxic Sonja and Whitey's relationship is. Quote from page 142= Self determination. SOnja's job was being objectified as a stripper. This became her identity. All of the Native American characters in the novel are searching for identity and self determination.

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"Yeah. Thinks he owns me. But he'll find he don't, huh? Am I right?" (pg. 142)

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the definition of cultural appropriation = Curtis Yeltow. Governor of South Dakota. ¨you wouldn´t believe the things that old boy has gotten away with. Smashed into a freight train, drunk, and lived. Used the prairie n*gger word for Indians. Thought it was funny. Had a mistress in Dead Eye. Bought gold and stored it in the basement of the governor´s mansion. And guns? He´s a gun lover/freak. Collects war shields. Indian beadwork. Pays homage to the local savage but tried to store nuclear waste on sacred Lakota earth. Said the Sun Dance was a form of devil worship. Oh, and he´s all tanned up.¨

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Much as in Atonement, this is demonstrating a complete lack of divine benevolence over the setting of the story. Despite all of these religious events, there is no blessing, there is no benign deity ensuring the well-being of the tribe. The divinity and religious zeal of old is dead. Additionally, the fact that the tribe is alienated from religion despite their best efforts could be considered analogous to their alienation from the white man and the outside world in general.

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to show how different the boys are from spiritual things and how they do not take it seriously, even though much of the novel focuses around spiritual issues and implying they need religious guidance. People are defiling things that are sacred.

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The irony!! Our society is and has been corrupt for ages. Religion should be sacred but it can easily be soiled. The Round House should be a safe place for the natives, but Geraldine can never go back without reliving her attack. Nothing in this sinful world can be sacred. Even when people really try to be holy, like the YEC, there will always be people who join with bad intentions, therefore defeating the purpose. People will always take sides, so people will always go against each other and fight. The irony of natives drinking at the Shaking Tent ceremony shows that people of the same tribe can go against each other. No one can be completely selfless.

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man vs society- men are against each other, Catholic religion against Native American religion. the white people are trying to put themselves on top, while the Native Americans are trying to fight with them just to be treated equally.
internal conflicts inside of Joe, Geraldine, Bazil,
Joe wants to be a kid but he also wants to be adult. He has childish thoughts and adult thoughts, sometimes both at the same.
Geraldine is obviously going through internal conflict because of the rape. She still has the maternal instincts that she once did, but now they are being pushed back and killed because of the rape. She has had moments where she is happy and acting like a mother to Joe, but for the majority of the novel she is hiding away by herself.
Bazil is battling with himself. In parts of the novel he is still trying to be a father and a husband, but that part of him is battling with the judge who wants to solve the crime and catch the rapist any way possible.
There conflict between Native Americans and white people is also represented in Linda. The white man took a literal part of her body away and used it for himself.

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Due to evolution, all people are different even in such small ways as  genetics. These differences should be celebrated. The ethnic conflict is at the heart of the conflicts in the novel. There is constantly conflict between Native American and Caucasian individuals. The Caucasian people are constantly defiling sacred places and rituals and the Native Americans are searching for self determination and identity.
Joe is constantly having a battle within himself from being an adult and a child. He tries so hard to act as an adult, but his actions scream adolescence. He drinks the beers and keeps the money. He wants revenge so badly he is willing to ignore the justice system and kill the rapist.

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Grace and Linden
(this may be a stretch) Joe and Linden bc they both are desperately seeking justice for their families even if Lark's justice is warped and twisted and not a pure justice. They both resort to violence (ends justify the means)
Linden and Windiigoo myth
Joe and Bazil sort of (intense love for Geraldine, desire for the Before, different routes of pursuing justice)

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Cappy and joe
Linda and linden even though their personalities are different
geraldine before and after the attack

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*Linda's Spirit and Joe's Dream-Spirit Both act as guiding forces through times of moral struggle
*Linden and [the story of] Windigo -- Linden takes the spirit of Geraldine and Mayla while the windigo is taking the physical person.
*Joe and Linden (kind of) -- Both are "Ends Justify Means" type person and both are extracting their own forms of revenge

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Cappy and Joe?
Both took part in the murder of Linden. They refer to each other as brothers. They both have psychological trauma after the crime

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-Linda and Linden both have spirit doubles
-Linda takes care of hers and gives it food - it doesn't eat much, just crumbs
-Linden doesn't take care of his (has weird nice/evil split personality thing) he is like a Wendigo and eats everything
(???)

-Mayla and Sonja

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joe and geraldine when they make their ascension up the stairs (was mentioned in novel)
lindas house objects
dreams and real life

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Sins Crying Out to Heaven For Vengeance??

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Lark^2
Joe and his ghost
The interior of Linda's house
Baptisms: Geraldine's vs. any of the numerous water-based baptisms Joe goes through

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Linda and Linden
Joe/Linda and their spirits/ghosts
maybe Linda and Geraldine

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double spirit within linda
Sweat Lodge- Randell
Cappy/Joe (brothers, killed together)
Linden/Joe- Murder(revenge), Blackmail w/ Sonja,

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joe and the crane

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Like Father Travis explained, there is no way for good to exist without evil, or evil to exist without good. even when the doubles seem very similar, there are always going to be hidden under the surface. Linden and Joe; Linda and Linden; Cappy and Joe; Linden and the old Fur Trapper (satisfying the traditional law by killing a killer); Joe/Geraldine and Akkii/Nanapush;

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Geraldine could be the Fisher "King", who has been broken by the rape she has suffered. Joe's dad can't do jack to pursue justice, so Joe has to make things right.
Side note: Cappy seems an archetypical knight (Lancelot). Sort of an ironic commentary on Joe's lack of knight-like characteristics.

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Joe and Basil. The father is the real judge, yet the son is the one to get justice. The child is taking care of the parents, unnatural order.

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The novel introduces the conflict between the two cultures, natives and whites, by presenting the image of weeds; something awful growing in the foundation of a home. In this scene, Joe starts working with his father but finishes the job alone, which parallels their actions through the course of the novel. The white people planted the seeds in their foundation, aka Linden committing crimes against the natives, but Joe was the one who pulled up the weeds, aka took action against Linden to protect his family. The blame can be cast on Linden for creating a problem, but Joe brought more suffering upon himself by actually pulling apart the foundation. The most depressing part is that leaving the weeds in the foundation would cause as many problems as taking them out.

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Mayla was never found, the cash was never found. Sonja never came back with the money.
It balances out since Joe got his revenge on Linden Lark and peace was restored to his family.

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Joe´s family was able to obtain justice, however the whole crime was not actually solved. Mayla´s body was never found, and the money wasn´t found.

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Linden is dead, so justice was obtained for Joe's family. However Joe will have to live with this guilt for the rest of his life. Joe paid the price for the happiness of his family.

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This theory works to a limited degree. In The Round House, justice was served on both sides with Linden committing violence for being defeated in court while joe also committed violence by killing Linden for his deeds. However, not all actions in the book received an equal reaction such as the killing of Mayla. A similar theme can be found in Atonement, where the punishment for Briony's accusation is her service in the war and permanent regret.

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geraldine and joe
because of the rape she was almost broken, and joe was trying to restore it back to normal.
from the assault, joe´s father was never able to do anything more for geraldine besides looking at past cases, joe did all the physical work with finding evidences and eventually killing linden
at the end everything goes basically back to normal, geraldine is planting again and weeding the yard. his parents have become closer again however joe takes the burden

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Joe is the knight and Gerdaline is the Fisher King

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Gerdaline is the leader of their house, in the beginning they mention that dinner does not start without her, communion does not start without her. When she gets attacked she escapes her reality and Joe vows to get revenge and justice, to restore "fetility" to the land meaning bring their old life back.

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Bazil is the Fisher King. He has a title of respect and is of somewhat importance, yet powerless in the prosecution to restore his family and rest his heart. Joe is the knight, destined to sacrifice his life in the name of his kingdom. The effects of this can be see through Geraldine's resumption of gardening and his mom and dad walking and talking together as if nothing ever happened while Joe loses his innocence and is charged with irreparable guilt.

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The Fisher King in this novel is Bazil. While he seems to be strong, he is helpless in healing his wife and bring his family back together. Joe is the knight because he has to go out and get the justice when his father cant.

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Gerdaline begins to plant her garden again after Linden is murdered.

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Joe's horse is his bike in the beginning, then the car becomes his horse.

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The journey- joe is trying to restore harmony to his family. he delt with the situation with sonja, father travis (breaking in and getting caught, the grave yard and the dogs) , and the money, seeing lark at the gas station and grocery store. these could be seen as trials and tribulations until he kills lark, and thats the bottom then he returns back to normal life
unhealable wound- joe will now always have to live with the fact that he has killed someone. he can be seen as going ¨mad¨ because he is still focused on this case in the future.

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Joe takes on a journey to find the rapist who destroyed the integrity of his family. Through this journey, he faces a number of trials and tribulations even from the beginning of the book by having to constantly fight with his dad over who's process will actually catch the suspect. Other trials include the issue of Father Travis, Sonja's blackmail and the money, the manipulation of Linda to get to Linden, and the killing of Linden.
The unhealable wound in The Round House is inflicted on Joe as soon as the gun is fired, quickly realizing his mistake. The wound has led to Joe's madness in a way through massive alcohol and drug consumption to escape.

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The Journey- Joe's mission to get justice for his mother in order to avenge her. During this journey Joe does unthinkable things, things that if he was not on this mission, he would never have done.

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"And it occurred to me how even pulling trees that day , just months ago, I was in heaven. Unaware. I had known nothing even as the evil was occurring. I hadn't been touched yet." pg 294
Joe goes through the Journey for truth, revenge, and justice and achieves all three. Through this journey he went from crushing beer with friends just for fun to popping valium pills and hard liquor to stop thinking about the crime he committed. After the murder, Joe endures his personal hell for his mother.

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The Unhealable Wound: Geraldine's rape sent the entire family into a downward spiral. She will never really be able to put what happened aside.

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Fisher King- the priest
The Journey- Joe wants vengeance and to get back at LInden for what he did
The Unhealable Wound- Rape of Geraldine; Cappy dies; the relationship between Joe and Sonja
The Hero- Joe needs to serve justice to his community by killing Linden

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Journey: Joe's quest to return to the Before, ultimately unsuccessful.  It results in loss of innocence and entrance into the adult world.
Unhealable Wound: Rape of Geraldine causes destruction of family.  Reminds me of Joe's statement regarding the broken casserole and the fact that if things had gone differently that day then the family could've gone on, but they didn't and Geraldine 'died'
The Fisher King: Geraldine infertility, rape = death; Bazil: no jurisdiction, no power, every rule must be followed to a tee (best we can do justice)
Joe= Knight, self-sacrificing, need for justice for his family
Priest? Explosion = emasculation = spiritual guidance???????????????

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The unhealable wound could be Cappys death and when Joe held him in his hands for a second when he saw him and how the rest of the novel (the last few pages) was just a growth in him.
The fisher king would be Gerlaldine who was taken advantage of and needs help to get through, even just staying in the bed. Joe and the dad could both be a knight because Joe helped a lot of times, but his dad asking Joe and working with Joe in the garden and having the dinner upstairs, that could be a way they both were trying to talk to and help her.

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unhealable wound = rape because you can never return to the state before the rape, also the loss of innocence that Joe goes through, like the transition from childhood to adulthood, you can't go back
journey = bildungsroman aspect of Joe growing up and trying to seek revenge and closure for his mother
hero = Joe
fisher king = Joe's father because he can't do anything because he is native american

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The Journey-Joe's journey to find justice. Psychological hell could be the thing with Sonja where there is a line drawn between them and Geraldine and Linden.
The Unhealable Wound-Geraldine's rape; Sonja's betrayal?
The Fisher King-Geraldine and Bazil
The Hero-Joe and his friends; embodiment of youth and fertility given their mindsets. Cappy and Jow work together to eventually find justice for the community.

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the journey - joe in search of geraldine's rapist and killing him to bring a sense of justice in the reservation. the trials and tribulations are the nature of him growing up and the difficulties that come along with that, the manipulation from and to Sonja, religious conflicts, etc. When Joe kills linden and he's going through a mental breakdown could be considered his psychological hell. the lowest level = when cappy dies and the acceptance is in his adult life when he becomes a lawyer.
the unhealable wound - the rape - there's always an underlying wound that will never bring geraldine, or the entire family, back to what it used to be. cappy's death - would that could be joe's final push into adulthood and out of childhood.
the hero - joe - initiation from cappy teaching him how to shoot, community rituals from  "converting" to catholicism ? and rituals from the tribe. yeah
the fisher king - geraldine and or the priest

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Fisher King = Geraldine -- her spiritual demise has lead to the "infertility" of the household. There is no food being cooked, nothing being grown in the garden. Essentially the death of the family (family being a large part in raising children and otherwise fostering relationships) is the infertility.
Knight/Hero = Joe; He is the one taking the most drastic measures to save Geraldine. He takes it into his own hands to find information. He even rides out on his bike (aka his 'noble steed')
The Journey = Joe Seeking Justice for the Violation of his Mother
The Unhealable Wound = The Murder of Linden. Psychologically, Joe is ruined. His journey to save his mother has pushed him into the dark parts of himself (confronting the black truth). He is in psychological hell, and it takes great will power for him to integrate into society as if nothing every happened.

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Geraldine works for government
government doesn't do anything
adults don't do anything
kids take action
kids are the future
the novel is meant to call attention to the fact that the rape of native american women is a serious problem
even though kids are kids they are the future
the next generation could do something about this instead of letting it happen

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The Hero: Joe is the hero of the novel, but in certain respects he lacks heroic qualities. His lack such traits is emphasized by Cappy's possession of such traits. Cappy is tall, handsome, and socially adept, while Joe is socially awkward, skinny, and is not renowned for looks. Joe does possess the brains and initiative though, in which most of his heroism resides.

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Journey- Joe discovering the lengths to which he will go to get vengence for his mother and family
Unhealable Wound-Geraldine's violation, Bazil's inability to help his family, Joe's a murderer
Hero-Joe n' Cappy

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the rape of Geraldine is a wound that cannot be healed, along with Basil's heart attack. Loss of physical security. Linden's taunts put the family through psychological hell.

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the journey- joe's journey is his coming of age along with the rape of his mother, 2 things are conflated- the coming of age journey and the journey for justice, the psychological hell is him trying to find out the truth of what happened to his mother and him trying to deal with it then making the decision to kill Lark, his return to the living is the drive back with his parents after everything is finished
the unhealable wound- obviously what happens with geraldine, but the unhealable wound also affects bazil. the priest has an unhealable wound from war, so does sonja from being a stripper (both psychological and physical)
the hero-

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the journey- Joe growing up and discovering how to be a responsible adult and develop his character
unhealable wound- the crimes and discrimination made against native americans

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Joe has both heroic and non-heroic qualities. He is determined and has courage, but he uses people for his own benefit.

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Joe writhes on the floor in contemplation of a murder that will seal his fate, provide justice, and amke him into an adult.

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justice in nature always finds a way to create balance. Until the end of the novel i believed that Joe was the justice sent to take care of Linden, but he failed and Cappy had to get involved. The irony is that justice would have found its way to Linden if Joe had not stepped in since there was a witness who knew where Mayla was. In order to once again restore balance, the universe took Cappy from Joe, maybe to teach him a lesson, or maybe it was saving Cappy from the burden of his crime.

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Summer is almost over; normally a novel would end with either spring or summer to signify the healthy and optimistic conclusion of the protagonist's journey into adulthood. Yet the Round House ends with two weeks to go before school starts and autumn arrives. This ironic twist alludes to the lack of conclusion life has; time keeps going, even if the novel stops. This has been hinted at throughout the rest of the novel, with Joe's references to events beyond the scope of the novel. The fact that autumn is coming emphasizes this point.

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joe kills linden for what he has done to geraldine and their family, but by committing murder he is just as bad as linden. more irony in this situation is that killing linden seems like unlawful justice, it is actually lawful according to an old traditional law.

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Should be happy that Linden dies, but that death has lead to Cappy's death and chronic nightmares. Joe in a way died with Linden bc his childhood is gone as well as a form of innocence from taking a life. Rain should be a cleaning baptism but it has the opposite effect by dirtying him in an irreversable way."Small forever"

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he irony at the end is that joe sees his parents as the clueless children, and him as the responsible adult who made everything okay again. This is irony because he is the child, but he sees himself as an adult above his parents now.

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Joe acts as the adult although he will not reach the age of adulthood for several years and deals with issues with actions. His parents continued to act as children.

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Haven Vs. Wilderness- home used to be safe has to go out to woods n friends house to find a sence of belonging again as he no longer recognizes his own home
Black/Purple/Blue- description of mother nad her apperance, she looks like death and is surrounded by it as well
3- 3 friends, 3 in the family, Sonja/M/Joe, Joe/ mom/dad, 3 adults during assult, father travis/cappy/joe
Circle- round house, irony supposed to be a place of shelter and heaven but instead is turned to a place of hell and destruction
Ascent- up the stairs inversion of assent to heaven
Skeleton- mother, shows how she ahs died
Loyal Retainers- Cappy the best, Angus/ Zack less so
Friendly Beast- pearl/ lindas dog
Earth Mother- Not actual mother

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haven vs wilderness- their home was a place of safety for joe, but when he went out into the woods where his mother was raped/escaped from lark  is where he really loses his innocence and grows up
tree/forest archetypes work together because joe gains his knowledge about the rape in the woods but he still loses his innocence and becomes more evil as he loses it and as the novel progresses
three- three family members, three friends
shadow- joe's ghost? his dark side

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Water vs. Gasoline: It rains a lot throughout the course of the Round House; it is raining when Joe and Cappy kill Linden, as well as a number of other times. Geraldine has a baptism by gasoline when she is raped, which symbolizes the  alteration she undergoes as result.

Nature (Ascent): Geraldine's and Joe's ascent from the world of the living, and then their eventual return

Side note: Joe killed Linden, went to Whitey's, got drunk and then passed out. He woke up the next morning sick, then fell asleep again, woke up sick, then descended from his room on the 3rd day.

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the father/son conflict -Joe and Basil
the journey- Joe's journey of growing up
the initiation- Joe deciding to go after the case and try to solve it himself with the help of his squad
the ritual- The ceremonies/Round House
death and rebirth-through many characters' deaths, others are reborn (Linden/Geraldine)
The devil figure- Linden Lark
Ascent- the mother acsented up the stairs

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Father- son conflict; not only joe and basil but also the past vs the future.
The fall- joe isn't growing up, he's learning the flaws of the world and making his own mistakes, commits crimes, sins, his fall from grace or innocence.
Battle between good & evil; represented in doubles, sometimes hidden but always there. Conflict between different religions, different families.
Supernatural intervention; the ghosts represent lingering actions and feelings that cant be erased. allows for a different forms of communication, abstract messages.
The lake; the crime scene was next to the lake, the damning evidence was found in the lake, the money doll. Water is passive and feminine, ironic that the crimes committed were against women
The temptress; Sonja tries to mother joe but he only sees the opposite, points out his moral flaws, her physical beauty makes people view her as an object, like the doll she found the fortune is.

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three- the Trinity
Ascent (mom going up the stairs)
Duality (Doubles)
Skeleton (imagery of the mother)
Hunting group of companions (Joe and his friends)
Loyal retainers (Cappy)
The outcast (Linda)