ENGL 2802 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Clearcutting, Susanna Moodie, Asturian Language
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Takes steps back when it comes to politics as she doesn"t understand it all. Notices the clear-cutting of trees: she uses the term killing , she compares tree to women. She"s already talking about the terrible e ects of european regulations on the indigenous (reservations are already being created in canada, even before the indian. Notes that the settlers have taken all of the work out of the natives hands, replaced bows with guns even though the natives cannot make guns themselves, etc. Indigenous women in particular are being hurt by the foreign policies. The strickland sisters - catharine parr traill and susanna moodie: At the time there was a notion of over population in britain. Written in the bush is written as a sketch. Moodie was much more negative than traill in her writings. Grosse ile: quarantine station that the boats had to stop at. Lawrence were people checked for disease and got treatment or died.
