The Role Of Liquor In Plague Of Doves

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As readers we are introduced quickly to how liquor is involved in the characters lives in Plague of Doves. On page 36 as we are learning more about Evelina’s family she explains this incident involving Father Cassidy, “For one, my mother blamed the argument on liquor and banned Mooshum from drinking as best she could. For another the grip of the church on our family was weakened as Mooshum thrillingly broke away” (Erdrich 36). As we learn after this liquor has a grip on Mooshum’s life for obvious reasons regarding his past. The numb of drinking is a medicine for Mooshum. Further on in the book when we are hearing the world from Marn’s point of view there is a scene on page 184 when her and her two children run from the cult and from Billy.

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