Buckler's The Mountain And The Valley
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Ernest Buckler's The Mountain And The Valley is lauded for being an exceptional example of regional writing. This 5 page paper argues that the community's inability to confront emotional issues, in concert with their fear of the protagonist's exceptionality, demands a toll on his self-confidence which ultimately results in his inability to escape. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Comparative Analysis of Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “Alias Grace”
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A 6 page paper which provides background information on the author, then compares and contrasts the style of writing, the themes, and the main characters of each book. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Comparing Joy Kogawa’s “Obasan” and Margaret Laurence’s “The Stone Angel”
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This 5 page report discusses two stores of childhood loss, deprivation and isolation. Two Canadian writers tell the very different stories of two motherless girls growing up. Both explore the human condition and both demonstrate the directions in which a child may grow. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Ethel Wilson's Swamp Angel : Sense of Place
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In 5 pages, the author discusses the way in which sense of place was developed in "Swamp Angel" by Ethel Wilson. No other sources are cited.
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Farley Mowat's 'Never Cry Wolf'
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This 5 page essay discusses Farley Mowat's book, published in 1963, and based on an official survey by the Canadian Wildlife Service that was designed to study the impact of on the caribou population through a close study of their lives. The book underscores the fact that humans can only gain knowledge and awareness of nature by living as an intimate part of the environment. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Farley Mowat/Lost in the Barrens
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A 5 page book review that summarizes and analyzes the action in this "coming of age" novel about two boys who survive the Canadian wilderness due to their own resourcefulness. No additional sources cited.
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Guy Vanderhaeghe's Short Story, "Dancing Bear"
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A 5 page paper which examines the theme of Canadian author Guy Vanderhaeghe's short story, "Dancing Bear." No additional sources are used.
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Hodgins' After The Season
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This 5 page essay provides a tutorial on the relationship between the use of setting, character and theme, relating it to a discussion of Jack Hodgins' After The Season.
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Imagination in Montgomery's 'Anne of Green Gables'
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An eight page paper looking at this well-loved children's classic by Lucy Maud Montgomery in terms of its emphasis on the power of the imagination. The paper asserts that young children actually feel things more deeply than adults believe them to, and their imaginations can help them come to terms with a confusing and difficult world. Bibliography lists five sources.
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Intranation -- Patricia Grace’s “Potiki” and Eden Robinson’s “Monkey Beach”
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This 10 page report discusses novels written by Patricia Grace (“Potiki”) and Eden Robinson (“Monkey Beach”). In “Potiki,” the reader is able to see one community's response to attacks on their ancestral values and symbols. In the process, the relationship between people and the land they live on is shown to have greater ties than can be imagined by the “typical” urbanite. Likewise, “Monkey Beach” demonstrates that there are people whose greater loyalties are more directly related to the mystical connections that exist for some people in what are most often dismissed as the ordinary occurrences of daily life. Both novels explore the idea of the existence of intranations in the modern world and the ideologies of the residents of those intranations. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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