ENG215H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Free Verse, Lightning
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Thinking about david bezmozgis" the second strongest man and antanas sileika"s. The first few stories we read this term deal with the experience of settling and cultivating the raw canadian land, weeding, hoeing, and farming it so yields results. Think of the transition: how the earlier stories placed greater emphasis on cultivating the land (the sense of place was so prominent in those narratives) and now the characters are experiencing more psychological hardships in the transition. The stories are not dissimilar in the way they deal with cultivating a new existence despite real hardships. In the earlier stories the hardships tend to be physical and the toll is taken within and among families and relationships. In the later stories, the hardships tend to be emotional and the impact is on individual and collective family identity. Parents become the children, as the children themselves are seemingly more adept at adapting to all that is new and different and unfamiliar.
