ENGL 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Domestic Worker, Dementia, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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Adele"s story of immigration to canada as a domestic worker: This is a family restaurant and no coloured or prostitutes are allowed to eat here, though he knows of other places on another street where she would be welcome pg 50. She"s become too sensitive, she tells herself she"s been given a chance in a new land/ she"s one of the lucky ones. She must always remember that pg. 51 evidence of adele"s daily experience of racism and discrimination. Adele"s family: without access to the privelages, education and money (reality of discrimination) Pg. 75 they comb through newspaper ads looking for an apartment. They get evasive answers when their accents are heard, but they persist undaunted. They realized that their voices might be the problem and so they practice speaking canadian to eachother, laughing when the other"s voice starts to pitch and lower involuntarily. You don"t know how lucky you people are to be here.
