Margaret Atwood‚ well known for her illustrious enhancement of Canadian Literature‚ claims what distinguishes Canadian writing from the American or European writing is the theme of survival Canadians have experienced. Now‚ with people from all over the world immigrating to Canada there is a struggle to survive through the preservation of their cultures while living in one that is dominantly English and French. There is tension between the English‚ French‚ First Nations and many other cultures that
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Endings” by Margaret Atwood‚ she describes five different scenarios in which a man‚ John‚ and a woman‚ Mary have different lives and situations in each one. Each story is described and then always ended the same. The characters are happy and then they die. Atwood makes this point when she says‚ “John and Mary will die. John and Mary will die. John and Mary will die.” Using this method of repetition gives the reader thoughts about each scenario on its own. Throughout the scenarios‚ Atwood is very curt
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story Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood the author displays how plot can affect characterization‚ or the reader’s perceptions of characters‚ by showing several different scenarios using the same characters but different plot lines. For example‚ plot B‚ although it uses the same characters‚ creates very different perceptions of those characters than the ones created in plot A. In plot A‚ John and Mary appear to be in love‚ and they appear to be happy. The plot seems to indicate this; “John and Mary fall
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we tend to focus on. Culture affects growing up‚ race‚ gender‚ class‚ family and language. Canadian Culture and Identity What does Canada mean to you? Hockey. Maple syrup. Tim Horton’s. 4 seasons Groups of 7 Snow. Margaret Atwood Understand your culture is important in understanding other cultures. Canada is a multicultural country. Literature is used to define a culture. It is easier to explain what we are not than what we are. Hard to define a culture
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would happen after death? Do you ever wish to read people’s minds? In this story we reflected a lot of things. What if just like Penelope in the story‚ people will stab you in the back‚ people will spread misleading and untrue rumors about you‚ what if you would know everything? Are you ready to be slapped by the truth? Are you ready to see yourself from their perspective? In this literary story “A Low Art” by Margaret Atwood‚ is about retelling Homer’s novel – The Odyssey but from Penelope’s perspective
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Writing Task C Rationale I chose to write an extra chapter for the book ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Atwood. This book is about the Republic of Gilead‚ a dictatorship‚ where most women are infertile due to nuclear waste. The few fertile women become ‘Handmaids’‚ birth-mothers for the upper-class. The main character is Offred‚ who became a Handmaid after attempting to escape Gilead with her daughter and husband‚ Luke. She was separated from them became a Handmaid in the house of the
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"Backdrop addresses cowboy" by Margaret Atwood Creating a masterful poetic movement through the American mythos‚ Atwood skewers "manifest destiny" by embodying the voice of the Other‚ the discarded "I am." Writing political poetry that artfully confronts dominant ideology – thus exposing the motivation and effects of misrepresentation – is a difficult challenge. The process can easily be derailed by temptations to write strident‚ overly didactic verse that elevates sentiment above nuance and
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his enduring power and artistic qualities‚ and his audiences are emotionally and intellectually engaged and thus more responsive to Sadat’s deliverance of their own views on their beliefs and aspirations. “Spotty-Handed Villainesses” (1994) by Margaret Atwood‚ using subversive irony and humour‚ forces her audiences to deconstruct the deception of ‘evil’ women within literature and with her enduring power engages her audiences in cries for the dismantling of social gender roles. The speeches set for
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Atwood based love on how society portrayed it and not how she saw it. In the second stanza of the poem‚ Atwood describes love as something more powerful and valuable. As the poem continues‚ Atwood shifts into how she views the actual emotion of love. Her arrogance towards love had been bitter‚ however it was not towards love itself. Her emotions and attitude begins to become known when Atwood says‚ “Then there’s the two/of us. This word is far too short for us‚ it has only/four letters” (22-24).
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story might be different they all have the same ending which results in a happy marriage and death. This leads Atwood to make the point that endings tend to be generic and the real "meat" of a book is in the middle. 2) Theme- In Happy Endings the theme focuses on that the middle of a story is far more important than the end. Atwood argues that most endings are generic and non creative. Atwood feels that that an emphasis on the middle of a story leads to a better‚ and more developed story.
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