Given the choice the members of the AFR have made to participate in the Jeu de Train Prochain, these men are trying to metaphorically counter American fate. They seek to slow what they think of as the destructive but indefatigable course of capitalist politics, specifically that of dangerous waste policies that disable Canadians involuntarily. They are both the test subject and footswitch of the trolley thought problem. Marathe’s identity is first and foremost displayed throughout his loyalty to his separatist organization and his wife, whose costly health issues motivate him in the AFR (Wallace 88). Born without a skull as a result of pollution “from the toxicities in association of our country’s invasion on paper,” she has lived a struggle filled life presumably at American fault (Wallace 779). He assumes Americans act on the selfishness he possesses, one insatiable by compromise, and vocally fixates on renouncing utilitarianism. Pages 420 to 430 follow a conversation between Marathe and …show more content…
Incandenza is one of the only characters who arguably embraces predeterminism. In one of only several passages to use first-person tense, Jim’s interior monologue consists entirely of his father lecturing him. At the age of six (?) he is imprisoned by his parent’s use of future tense, having been told, “you are going to be a great tennis player,” “you will be truly great,” and “you will be poetry in motion” (Wallace 158). He inherits his love of film from his mother, who once acted as an extra alongside Marlon Brando, and his love of tennis from his father. At no time does he stray from either of these ambitions; he founds the Enfield Tennis Academy and becomes a prolific film maker. But the chemical influence of depression and alcohol are overall instrumental in his final product. Addicted to the lure of death by depression and alcoholism, Jim creates Infinite Jest consisting of two of the things he finds fatally addictive: his mistress Joelle Van Dyne and
In Canada, Terry Fox is always suggested to be a hero who offered by way of clues to a Canadian cultural identity. Terry Fox is a famous Canadian athlete and cancer research activist. In 1980, his efforts for embarking on a cross-Canada run to make people recognize the importance of cancer research, with one of his legs amputated, successfully influenced and engaged millions of people. Terry Fox quotes that to him, being famous himself is not the idea of the run, while the only important part for him is the Marathon of Hope. (1980) In this essay, I am going to analyze the heroism, nationalism and identity that Terry Fox brings to Canadian history.
Thomas King says that the Canadian history has been altered and he feels he should tell them correctly. He incorporates four core elements in his story “Totem” to illustrate his point: the totem pole, Walter Hooton and his workers,
In paragraph two, Thoreau uses a depressing, problematic and facetious tone to get his message across. Thoreau explains how he is strongly against the United States government, and also points out problems of the government. Thoreau uses depressing diction when describing the problems of the government in order to make people feel hatred toward the government and realize how problematic it actually is. Thoreau uses Power of Three to exemplify the problems of the government, and further connects with the audience on an emotional level by pointing out how the citizens help lead to the countries’ problematic state. Thoreau’s use of inappropriate humor when he explains trade makes the United States government seem trivial and almost as a lost cause due to the problems caused by the leaders. His relation of such a serious topic to a comical reference makes it an easier to understand situation. The use of this specific tone creates a more impactful rhetorical effect that is relayed in the paragraph.
The decades between 1860 and 1880, a small Irish gang emerged in the coal mines of Pennsylvania. Due to the prejudice and maltreatment of non-Anglo-Saxon immigrants in the United States, the Irish forced into working in horrible conditions for such little pay and barely any security or fair compensation when they were injured. The legacy the Mollies left behind was not only the gory truth about what happens when prejudices get in the way, but their battles were only the beginning in creating unions and labor strikes. The Molly Maguires serve as they martyr for the battered and abused workforce of the 19th century.
Macphail risked her whole career to get the position of being the effective person to represent the UFO. “While she was working is Sharon, she became a member and active spokes-person for the United Farmers of Ontario (UFO) and the United Farm Women of Ontario. Her desire to represent the farmers in her region was what restricted her to help in the political career. ON top of all that this she was also a communist for the Farmer’s Sun” (Flesherton – Agnes Macphail). She was very focused to make men and women have the same rights and make them aware about the problems the farmers faced. This was important for the people to know about these issues because a good citizen is aware of the situations that are happening within their own community, other countries and as well know what was happening in the world.
1. What features of American society seem most to trouble the authors of the Port Huron Statement?
We tend to marginalize the poor, the destitute, the food stamp and welfare recipients among us. We like to pretend that they are not there, much like the residents of Southie liked to pretend that the violence and anger and tragedy in Southie weren't there. We like to try to compartmentalize this part of our own society, this very real set of people who still live in our towns. Who mourn their dead at our churches, who lower them into the ground in our cemeteries, who hand food stamps to the cashier at our grocery stores. We have all been guilty of it. How could we not be? How could we really grasp, realize, come to terms with, comprehend such an alien life? Michael Patrick MacDonald is our translator. He relays the past as Southie has written it on his heart. He hands it to us in a language we might better understand. MacDonald opens the door and invites us to sit down at his Southie dinner table. To lie on a mattress on the floor next to him and his brothers. To come
James Hansen’s appeal relies heavily upon Pathos. In his opening statement, as well as his closing remarks, calling for civil resistance, stating this is the most urgent fight of our lives, and finally, it is our last chance, is a persistent engagement of your emotional response. Seven points regarding fossil fuel use and environmental onslaught to obtain them appear factual. Consequently, the use of possible factual information amongst the plethora of Pathos loses any impact to the appeal it might have had, casting doubt on the validity of the information presented. Soliciting our mistrust of government is a useful, if not somewhat powerful, approach to capturing the audience’s intensely negative feelings towards perceived government corruption
The Indian woman Molly Brant lived the life of two different worlds. Molly was born a Mohawk Indian and as she was ready for education her family sent her to a white school. Later on in her life she then married a widower, Sir William Johnson who was a white man. Both Molly and Johnson together were very powerful in political force. Then the American Revolution comes along and destroys what Molly has worked hard on. The American Revolution tears apart and ends all of the power that Molly's Iroquois kinsmen and women have built for almost two centuries. It then went down from there. Molly is trying to reach to the Crowns to just to remain in peace once again. Now since the American Revolution it was so difficult, because they judged the different colored woman. The Americans did not want anything with any other colored people. The americans only wanted whites and nothing else. For example, a man mentioned brown ladies because of there good understanding and the “Americans could not reach an understanding with this particular brown lady” (pg.112). Being a brown woman was very challenging and became unfair. Another race issue in the American Revolution were the African Americans. Whether the Africans were slave or free the woman really struggled to build and have a family. The free black women were not able to even have a children or a
When describing Nurse Ratched, Bromden states, “Her voice has a tight whine like an electric saw ripping through pine”. The simile used to describe the leader of the ward portrays the conflict between nature and machinery in America. On the other hand, since Canada is the fir tree, it is wholly natural, without the negative consequences of its interaction with machinery. The wheat field metaphor furthers this point, as Bromden dreams, “‘He’ll do. There’s birds over there is what the of dog says.’ ‘Better hunting up the track bank is what your ol’ man says.’ ‘Best right across in the chats of wheat, the dog tells me’”. The symbolism of the dog displays curiosity and exploration, looking for the best place to go. Since that place is in the wheat, but not where Bromden’s dad wants to go, it is a progressive idea, and strays away from both industrial society and tradition, looking for a new trail to blaze. Therefore, Canada being the wheat field is the best of both worlds, breaking from industrialism and from ways of old. Consequently, America is displayed as both the traditional and industrial world, and in this light is rejected by Matterson’s
The fourth theme is patronizing sympathy for Americans in crisis focuses on Canadian sympathy for the Unites States following firing Fort Sumter in different editorials expressing concern over the Civil War’s terrible toll, sympathy declined as tensions between the United States and Great Britain increased. It was important that Canadians goodwill was gone, once Canadians realized that the North was fighting to save the Union and not to free slaves. The Union was over the Civil War’s goals had a stronger effect on conservative Canada East and many editors sympathize with the South despite the general disregard for slavery.
Louis Riel, a controversial man who ponders around Canada’s mind & judgement today, some may call him a traitor but for the most in fact he was a hero. He was one of the founding fathers that embraced and shaped our country to what we are today and not only that, he was a fighter that stood up for what he believed in and what he knew was best for the people because simply he cared about them. Although, at times his reasons were faulty, his selfless acts were far more recognizable than his prevailing mistakes that led him to execution in 1885 as he was judged “guilty” of alleged accusations of an unfair court of whom did not favour him.
The politics of Infinite Jest are rooted inside a rich speculative fiction backdrop, but have surprisingly managed to predict a climate similar to current political America. Soon after the events that created O.N.A.N. in the novel, Canadians began advocating for separatism. There are a variety of separatist groups, but the most ubiquitous are Les Assassins en Fauteuils Rollent. A metaphor for their political attitude, their members deliberately jump back and forth over train tracks while American trains plow forward. This game steals the legs of young men who have put themselves in harm's way, and disability is prided over cowardice. Marathe, an AFR member disabled by the Jeu de Train Prochain, gives a lengthy speech on the how the underlying evils of America are simultaneous utilitarianism and individualism. By connecting Marathe’s limb loss by train and this speech, he becomes obviously connected to the Trolley Thought Experiment.
All the characters in the novel are measured against Colonel Wain, who stands for everything in Canada’s colonial past that should be rejected. In the Wains’ family history is encapsulated the history of the nation. The founder of the Wain line in Canada was a sergeant who fought with Major General James Wolfe at Quebec. His grandson founded the family fortunes by privateering in the War of 1812. With the proceeds, he had started a trade with the West
While Thoreau continues to paint himself in a brilliant light, he also rejects the opinions of the outside world with specific allusions and similes. He manages to put himself and decisions on an implicit pedestal, disguising it as man’s desire for material possession and complexity. By referencing the “German Confederacy, made of up petty states” (Paragraph 2), Thoreau intertwines both connotation and a relevant allusion to current events at the time. This gives Thoreau’s readers a chance to connect with his writing and believe that they are the problem for not dropping their belongings and bounding into the nearest forest to live a life of modesty. He also uses colloquialism to simultaneously draw his readers in while alienating himself from the common issues of man, “The nation itself, with all its so-called internal improvements, which, by the way are all external and superficial, is just such an unwieldy and overgrown establishment, cluttered with furniture and tripped up by its own traps,” (Paragraph 2). The famous author’s special attention to colloquialisms, including “so-called”, create an atmosphere familiar to his readers. However, his decision to mention furniture and traps conflict with Thoreau's own ideas of a materialist lifestyle. Even as simply uses hyperboles to get a point across, “Men say that