ENG1120- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 19 pages long!)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1120
• Professor: Paul Graves

Document Summary

Following the main character vanessa macleod"s development from the age of eleven to eighteen, margaret laurence"s short story the loons focuses on the white girl"s relationship with a metis girl named piquette tonnerre. Vanessa"s attitudes change during the story from na ve romanticism to embarrassment and pity (laurence, time 283) to accepting her share of collective responsibility for piquette"s death. This final change allows the reader to think that. Vanessa gains insight into her would-be friend"s life, what laurence herself called the pain and bewilderment of one"s knowledge of other people (282). Laurence critics provide a range of answers to this question. Peter easingwood agree that vanessa macleod grows in understanding, whereas critics janice. Acoose and tracy ware lay more emphasis on the persistence of destructive racial stereotypes in. Vanessa"s views and in the story as a whole. An analysis of characterization, narrative structure, figurative language, and point of view in the loons suggests that, while laurence shows.