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

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’

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On a daily basis, people are affected by infrastructures. When thinking about infrastructure, a physical operation such as freeways and transportation comes to mind; however, infrastructures are not limited to such restrictions. An infrastructure is a system that combines its physical form with symbolism. Infrastructures demonstrate the relationship from the past and future, affect people's lives, and have a deeper meaning underneath the physical surface. This can be better understood from the reading

"Cancer Valley" as they called it, is an 85 mile stretch of the Mississippi River which runs from Baton Rogue to New Orleans. It is a place where many petrochemical facilities and oil refineries are clustered together. The problem, however, is that in between these clusters there are people who live there, minorities mostly, who feel that this is some sort of discrimination. Not only that but they also feel this poses a danger to their health as they believed were responsible for some of the health

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