Partial Review of Tommy Orange's "There There"

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Partial Review- There There
Tommy Orange’s “There There” phenomenal book implies prologue and interludes stylistic narrators’ method of writing to explore twelve Native Americans with diverse lifestyles and thinking but happens to be blood-related, in the lead up to powwow. In both, the prologue and interlude narrator speaks in a peculiar voice, which uses first-person plural “we,” which seems to speak in voices for all communal groups of people with native identity and shared history, wants, and social struggles. Additionally, Tommy’s two methods of narration can be given meaning and analysis as follows. The Prologue’s creativity allows Tommy to relay historical context and social exposition, thereby familiarizing the reader with the characters in the book. On the other hand, the interlude, part of the book seems similar to the prologue agenda but with more specifications in each character’s ambitious storytelling and the tragic events that lay ahead of the character. Further, interlude has also been used as a bridge of connection between characters as we are going to discuss.
Jacquie Red Feather is discussed as a woman who has been fighting with an alcoholic addict, where she quotes, “and ten days is the same as a year when you want to drink all the time” (99). She has flown to Phoenix for a Substance Abuse Mental Health Service Administration Conference, where she meets with Harvey a man who raped her as a teenager. The narrator in this prologue section builds up the reader’s familiarity with the characters, by, shifting in perspective, and filling the ...