Father Travis conceptualizes Emmaline as the Virgin Mary (See Quote 5), and she is often the object of male affection, as Landreaux, Father Travis, and Romeo all love her ceaselessly. Emmaline rarely shows emotion, often suppressing her urge to cry and instead allowing others space for their own emotions. She eventually becomes director of this school and works tirelessly to give her students a sense of stability within the tumult of their familial lives, which are often plagued by drug/alcohol dependency, physical/emotional abuse, and neglect. Emmaline also teaches students at a local on-reservation boarding school that essentially works as crisis intervention for the myriad social ills that plague families on the reservation. More than anything, Emmaline exists as a maternal figure for the characters within the novel, both for her biological children-Snow, Josette, Coochy, and LaRose-as well as Hollis, the Iron’s surrogate son who they have adopted from Romeo. Landreaux understood after the babies were born he would come second” (8-9). The author describes Emmaline as a “branchy woman, lovely in her angularity she was a passionate mother. Emmaline’s father was a cult leader who had several other wives and caused Emmaline’s mother considerable emotional and possibly physical pain. “Then she looked straight at Hollis again and all her heart came into her face” (355).Emmaline is the mother of the Iron family she has wolfish green eyes and light skin that quickly tans. Josette tries to act calm but ends up snorting, telling him to stay. Hollis asks for one of the party invitations to keep as a memento for his next home, and Snow tells him to stay. Josette tells them to come over later to help with the party. Josette imagines rolling up the Raviches’ lawn to borrow it. Maggie, LaRose, and Josette eat ice cream, but Josette begins to feel anxious by the order of the house and they go outside, discussing how Maggie and LaRose pick 100 dandelions per day to help weed the garden. “This is where LaRose lives his other life, the thought” (350). Romeo comes to look up to Landreaux because Landreaux always seems to know how to handle things, including being away at school. Josette inspects the impeccably ordered house. Summary Take it All: 1967 1970 In the first chapter of this section, Romeo and Landreaux, Landreaux works to adjust to life at the Bureau school at Fort Totten, where he has Romeo for a roommate. Josette goes to the Raviches’ house to ask for help from the green-thumbed Nola. Josette and Snow plan a huge graduation celebration for Hollis, trying to plant grass in the dirt volleyball practice court, although they have lost their cultural tradition of farming.
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