Effects Of Assimilation In Klee Wyck
houses for them to live in. This is illustrated in the novel when Carr states, “[o]n the point at either end of the bay crouched a huddle of houses […] every house stood separate from the next. Winds roared through narrow spaces between” (Carr 34-35). This quotation demonstrates the rapidity of colonization and constructing houses caused by the Missionaries.
The Missionaries in Klee Wyck exude power through their irrational notions of assimilating indigenous people into Western society, the negative effects of integration by force causes indigenous people to discard their culture for a new idealistic culture and the alteration of their landscape to rescue them from their ‘bizarre’ practices. When both a struggle for forcing Western standards
into people’s mind-set, and a strong commitment to colonize and build a Western society, the only thing at the end of the equation is chaos.
The Missionaries in Klee Wyck exude power through their irrational notions of assimilating indigenous people into Western society, the negative effects of integration by force causes indigenous people to discard their culture for a new idealistic culture and the alteration of their landscape to rescue them from their ‘bizarre’ practices. When both a struggle for forcing Western standards
into people’s mind-set, and a strong commitment to colonize and build a Western society, the only thing at the end of the equation is chaos.