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分析Theloons
Background knowledge
Changes of Piquette’s character
Piquette’ s Fate
The Relation between The loons & Piquette’s Fate
Causes of Piquette’s Fate
Conclusion
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The touching story tells of the plight (困境) of Piquette Tonnerre, a Métis girl who struggled very hard in her life to find a place in the white dominate society. By describing this story, the author Margaret Laurence presented the situation of Indian people in Canada----
Background Knowledge
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Marginalized by the white-dominating society.
Unable to exist independently in a respectable, decent and dignified way.
Impossible to fit into the main currents of culture and difficult to be assimilated comfortably.
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Changes of Piquette’s Character
When Piquette was a little girl
not very friendly to the writer
cold, taciturn, hostile, emotionless
her face : stolid and expressionless.
She dressed in plain clothes and seemed to be every bit as ordinary as possible.
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Several years later
Her face : animated with extreme happiness
Put on make-ups
Had a slender body to wear beautiful clothes.
Became talkative and outgoing.
Dressed well and talked very loudly and joyfully with the boys around her
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Piquette’ Fate
At school, Piquette felt out of place and ill at ease with the white children. When she had grown up she didn't have any chance to improve her life.
In fact her situation became more and more messed up. In the end she was killed in a fire.
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The Relation between The loons & Piquette’s Fate
Her death is like the disappearance of the loons on Diamond Lake. Just as the narrator's father had predicted, the loons would go away when more cottages were built at the lake with more people moving in. The loons disappeared as nature was ruined by civilization. In a similar way, Piquette and her people failed to find their position in modern society.
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Causes of Piquette’s Fate
Piquette Tonnerre accum