Tomson Highway

Cree novelist and playwright, Tomson Highway, carefully crafts the opening of his novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen by inciting a sense of urgency, suspense, and hope. Highway portrays Okimasis’ dramatic dogsledding experience through the use of his syntax and distance diction. Highway’s syntax which incorporates parallelism and interjections helps develop the urgency in the beginning stages of the story. Highway uses one-word interjections such as “mush” to emphasize the desperation in Okimasis voice

In the Tomson Highway’s novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen, the opening passage transports the reader to the harsh, cold, and intense struggle of the caribou hunter, Abraham Okimasis during a championship huskie sled race. Any race often proves to be physically and mentally exhausting for a person, especially like Okimasis who feels he has so much to lose if he doesn’t win. Tomson Highway utilizes a variety of literary devices to dramatize Okimasis’ physical and emotional experience through his last

Thomson Highway's The Rez Sisters Works Cited Not Included The play The Rez Sisters is written by one of Canada's most celebrated playwrights, Tomson Highway. Highway was born in 1951 in northwestern Manitoba. He went on to study at the University of Manitoba and graduated from the University of Western Ontario, with honors in Music and English. Native Literature is inspired by 'contemporary social problems facing native Canadians today; alcohol and drug abuse, suicide, wife battering, family

In an excerpt from Tomson Highway’s playwright, is written with a tone of desperation in order to demonstrate the struggle of Abraham Okimasis’, the character’s, race. The use of vivid imagery, figurative language and diction helps dramatize Okimasis’ endeavors to win the race, whether he will succeed or fail. The vivid imagery makes the reader feel as if they were in the environment. When Highway says, “One hundred and fifty miles of low-treed tundra, ice covered lakes, all blanketed with at

Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen opens up the novel at the World Championship sled dog in Manitoba. The main character Okimasis is a determined participant of the sled dog competition to get the first place. Highway describes Okimasis’ desperation for winning by using dictions especially adjectives. Repetition and punctuation of “Mush!” emphasize intensity of his concentration into the race. Through imagery, readers are able to imagine the cold and icy setting where the race takes place.

voice against the injustice done to them. This paper gives an insight into the lives of the Aboriginal people of Canada that have been marginalized from the mainstream Canadian society. A Postcolonial study of the Native Cree Canadian Playwright Tomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters

In the passage from the novel Kiss of the Fur Queen, the author Tomson Highway presents the main character, Okimasis’, thrilling experience in a tasteful manner. The author constantly shifts the angles and tone of the passage, in a way that has a profound effect on the reader. Highway dramatizes Okimasis’ physical and emotional journey through the tundra, which is portrayed through sensory imagery, detailed descriptions, comparisons and intense diction. The passage begins by revealing Okimasis’

essays and one poem that have impacts the writer, and I will demonstrate how it has affected me. The first essay I chose is “Reading on ‘the Rez’” by Tomson Highway. This essay is about Tomson Highway as a young boy who was born and raised in the wilds in northern Manitoba and the Territories, where many people are born in tents, or dogsleds. Highway states that there weren’t any books, so he never grew up with the typical things that most kids grew up with. However, there were “oral” storytelling

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