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(*** trigger warning in this post for discussion of rape! nothing graphic but it is a main topic) Reading the novel The Round House by Louise Erdrich has really made me consider even more how absolutely messed up this country is. I feel like every day in this class I read something new and then I'm like damn, what a great place to live :) The basis of this novel is that the main character is a 13 year old Native American boy who lives on a reservation in North Dakota with his mom and dad. Fresh in the beginning, he and his dad discovered that the mom has been raped. The whole story so far has been playing out the timeline and the conflicting elements that naturally come with it, like finding the perpetrator and balancing the all the other things that come with being a Native American teenage boy, as noted somewhere in the slew of scribbles that is my attached note page. Something that I found really interesting and is also what further increased my suspicion of the history