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Comparing the Bible and Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel: An Examination of Archetypal References Often times great novels and plays allude to religion, to mythology, or to other literary works for dramatic purposes. Shakespearean plays are perfect examples. Allusions help the reader or spectator better understand, through visualization, a character or an event in a novel. In some cases, the characters, the events, or a series of events are structured according to the people and the action

Piquette and ultimately rejects her. Alienated Piquette acts indifferently to her surroundings, and only once in the story her heartfelt feelings have been expressed: “Listen, you wanna know something, Vanessa?...Your dad was the only person in Manawaka that ever done anything good to me” (Laurence 422). Coming from Piquette, who keeps her emotions hidden, just like the loons who cry only at night, her words mean a lot: they show to the readers, Piquette’s loneliness and isolation. Grown up woman

Vanessa would write stories about pioneers, and love and death, as an escape. Another person who experiences emotional confinement is Ewen. Guilt-ridden by feelings of responsibility for his brother's death in the war, Ewen came back to Manawaka and Beth, his wife, tells Edna, his sister-in-law, that, "it was only after the war that he decided to come back and study medicine," (59) probably to take Rod's place in the family's practice, forsaking his own ambitions. Ewen says, "I was never

his need of escapism, hints of pathetic fallacy, and how his family situation affects him and helps develop his chosen actions. The text introduces us to Chris when he is just a boy, around the age of 15, entering high school in the new town of Manawaka. He is a "tall lanky boy" with "his face angular, the bones showing through the brown skin" opinionated by Vanessa. Also his "grey eyes were slightly slanted, and his hair was the colour of couchgrass... a light yellow by the sun." Coming from a

Canadian Fiction Blackboard Post Two In Margaret Laurence’s short story, The Loons, the birds’ presence and cries are indicative of the effects European colonialism has had on Aboriginal life. Vanessa and her father sit and listen to the loons out on the lake, where their haunting songs are described as “voices [belonging] to a world separated by aeons from our neat world of summer cottages and the lighted lamps of home.” (Course Reader 33) Vanessa’s father, in response to the sounds, states that

This is a pivotal moment in Hagar’s life, as she could have fought for her dream and gone to South Wachakwa to teach, but instead, she gave that all up just to please her father, and to maintain her family’s reputation. With the decision to stay in Manawaka, Hagar opened a new door in the meeting of her future husband Brampton Shipley. The marriage of Bram and Hagar caused the estrangement between Hagar and her family, as they viewed Bram as common and not good enough for Hagar. Despite her family’s

Margaret Laurence was a Canadian novelist born in Manitoba. She liked to travel and she based some of her works on the places she visited. Five of her books are based on a town called Manawaka, though it is fiction, it is based on her birthplace. The story The Mask of the Bear by Margaret Laurence, portrays a young girl that lives in an unhealthy environment, this is shown through the themes of entrapment and loneliness, through certain aspects of Vanessa’s writing by using her mind and body to escape

explores Grandfather Connor’s failure in successfully protecting his family due to his restricting nature. The excerpt begins with Laurence’s emphasis on Grandfather Connor’s extent of control in the speaker’s household. By describing the “house in Manawaka” (1) to be known as the “old Connor Place” (2), Laurence reveals his role as the head of the family. As this image of Grandfather Connor is implemented in the reader’s mind, this strong individual who had “built his own house” (6) becomes a man with

Assignment 2: Discuss the theme of entrapment and desire for freedom in the Bird in the House by Margaret Lawrence Margaret Laurence’s A Bird in the House, is a collection of short stories that chronicles a young girl’s journey from the innocence of childhood to the experience of adulthood. The daunting world of knowledge, pain, turmoil, injustice and cruelty is revealed by slow degrees to finally unveil existence as we know it. Existences that we willingly embrace yet are simultaneously

Laurence also makes a parallel study about the women torn in between the quest of identity and the struggle for space and the desire to live happily with their husband and her children in the sister novel The Fire Dwellers. Stacey MacAindra is the sister of Rachel Cameron, she is thirty-nine years old house wife with four children who is lost and desperate because her husband does not understand her nor even listens to her miseries and sufferings. Like Rachel, Stacey is seen fluttering like a bird