ENG370H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Maria Campbell, Acculturation, Squaw
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Passage analysis: relate the passage to its context and identify its significance, connect content and form. Look at the sentences, words, irony (form) Maria"s father: hunts illegally (representing colonization, as they try to take away the native and. Metis" way of life: maria tells the authorities where her dad hides the beer and meat he hunts, and her dad (who is often stern) laughs when he is arrested. Father first wants maria to be a boy boys are more valuable. She grows up being boy-like because she is good and likes to fish and hunt. Her mother spends this time complaining that she is not feminine enough (trying to do her hair in ringlets) The dances: if girls go they are seen as whores but it is okay for men to go (doesn"t ruin the man"s reputation) Father is affected by gendering: he must remarry or risk losing his kids.
