ENG215H1 Lecture : ENG215 LEC05
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Prairie realism writing defines/reflects and creates the region: reassessing prairie realism article. Recalls lazybones + field of wheat for gender reversals. Contrast of developing pragmatism of new world set against over ______ of old world. Kezia introduced after setting: buried under all setting (snow) Foreshadow of importance of snow and setting for outcome of. Kezia: repetitions of enough (sufficiency or insufficiency) Kezia also literally has had enough with her life at barclay"s and wants more. She has reason to have had enough . 3rd person narration sympathetic to kezia imitating mrs. barclay"s way of speaking; therefore, sarcastic. Stuff bestowed on kezia; things aren"t hers: education, religion clothes, husband. Mr. barclay belittles kezia and assumes she"s good suitor for mr. hathaway because she would cooperate . Parallels between hathaway and kezia: hathaway shipwreck is economically good for him (salvage for goods, kezia salvages for a new life through shipwreck. Kezia"s transformation meek , little , orphan but spoke up.