ENG215H1 Lecture : The Mad Who Read Voltaire

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Idealization/imagination of america just like how americans think canadians live in igloos and have polar bears etc. Author: elsewhere and nowhere and a complication of the immigration experience . The tendency that canadians have to yearn for the states. Marooned to be abandoned alone in an inaccessible place dave feels alone: shows dominance of the husband, economic status of the family, for all the stories, whether it"s specific or reveals through the story. It"s the nowhere: west of toronto, but lesser than toronto. Detroit: racial, failed american city, challenge to revive detroit, so basically, detroit isn"t that cool as dave thinks it is. Exotic : my uncle and his wife were not ordinary guests. I did not dare to look at her hand in fear that she would take it away. The uncle stands up to the narrator"s father. The uncle puts father in his place this thoroughly impresses gerry and dave.

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