Lisa’s mother took this lightly, she saw her daughter’s experience as nothing but a mental illness. It’s probably-’ ‘Clearly a sign, Lisa,’ my mother has come up behind me and grips my shoulders, ‘that you need Prozac’” (Robinson 3). When she doesn’t answer, I find myself babbling. Lisa tries to tell her mother about her experience with the crows, “‘Did you hear the crows earlier?’ I say. The first individual that takes her spirituality wrongly is her mother. This is evident through her family seeing her gifts as an illness, her reluctance to share for fear of being stigmatized, and her continual self-doubt of her gifts which endangers herself and others.įirst, Lisa is surrounded by individuals that see her spirituality as a mental illness because of colonialism and assimilation of residential schools on Haisla culture. In the novel Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson develops the theme of loss of native culture through the struggles Lisamarie faces with the normalcy of her spiritual gifts because of colonialism from residential schools on Haisla culture. When one is surrounded by constant incredulity from the people in their life it can lead to a lack of conviction and self-doubt.
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