Canadian Literature Essays Examples For College & High School Students in PDF

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The Motif of Trauma in Surfacing by Margaret Atwood and Ceremony by Leslie Silko (2360 words, 7 pages)

Healing Surfaced Traumas Through Cyclic CeremoniesA wise person once said, the first step to healing is recognizing there is a wound. Throughout lifetimes, people are presented with obstacles and must learn to navigate through or around them. How an obstacle is faced and how it resonates with a person varies ... Read More

A Comprehensive Review of The Life of Pi, a Novel by Yann Martel (528 words, 2 pages)

Narrative Essay Books are great, they can broaden your scope of knowledge and expose you to different aspects of the human experience. You can live through people you otherwise never could and get a taste of what it would be like to be in their present position and even sometimes ... Read More

Anna as the Cause of John’s Death in The Painted Door, a Short Story by Sinclair Ross (678 words, 2 pages)

The Painted Door by James Sinclair RossThe Painted Door is a short story written by Canadian author Sinclair Ross in 1941. The story is about a lonely farmers wife one winter, as her husband goes off for the day to check on his elderly father five miles away in the ... Read More

The Influence of a Person’s Character on the Individual’s Actions in Lives of the Saints, a Book by Nino Ricci (1047 words, 4 pages)

In literature, a persons character dictates the choice that ultimately decides the course of the individuals life and people surrounding the individual. In the book Lives of the Saints by Nino Ricci the character Cristina Innocente life drastically changes immediately following the affair. . A persons character influences the actions ... Read More

The Thoughts of Offred in the Passage in The Handmaid’s Tale, a Novel by Margaret Atwood (816 words, 3 pages)

The Handmaids Tale CommentaryIn The Handmaids Tale, Margaret Atwood depicts a dystopian society where the government not only exerts its power over peoples actions, but also attempts to regulate peoples thoughts. In Gilead, any form of defiance is putting ones life at risk. In this passage, Offred expresses her own ... Read More

The Different Literary Tools Used in The Handmaid’s Tale, a Novel by Margaret Atwood (460 words, 2 pages)

Key Passage Analysis The Handmaids TaleOffred is extremely isolated through the ways of society and the totalitarian government enforcing strict rules on citizens. The Handmaids Tale conveys the idea that if one is isolated from society, it is inevitable to be nostalgic of the past and the freedom that they ... Read More

The Eternal Past in Station Eleven, a Book by Emily St. John Mandel (742 words, 3 pages)

Station Eleven The Undying PastThe past identifies people, whether it is good or bad, whether people want it to be forgotten or remembered, the past stays with people throughout their entire lives. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel is about a post-pandemic world where 80 of the worlds population ... Read More

Taking Charge of Life in Runaway, a Collection of Short Stories by Alice Munro (1157 words, 4 pages)

In Alice Munros Runaway we see a powerful array of short stories about the lives of women who lived in very different times. Through these short stories it can be seen that these women both choose to take charge of their lives as well as deal with the unpredictable powers ... Read More

An Analysis of the LGBT Representation in A Safe Girl to Love, a Short Story by Casey Plett (1176 words, 3 pages)

Transgender Representation in Short StoryContinuing the theme of LGBT representation in literature, this essays focus is on a transgender girls experience in the short story Other Women in the short story collection A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett. The story follows a trans girl named Sophie and her ... Read More

The Theme of Power in Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood (1480 words, 4 pages)

Margaret Atwoods Cats Eye talks heavily on the theme of power, because of the huge role it plays in the lives of its characters, and how it affects the interactions between characters throughout the entire novel. In Cats Eye by Margaret Atwood the text seems to argue that power and ... Read More

Language and Madness in A Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (1443 words, 4 pages)

Access Denied The Struggle Between Language and Madness in Atwoods A Handmaidss TaleMargaret Atwoods 1985 novel, A Handmaids Tale, tells the story of a dystopian society called Gilead. Gilead makes up what used to be the United States, but after several natural disasters caused child-bearing to be very difficult, severe ... Read More

A Comparison of Obasan and Naomi’s Road, Two Works by Joy Kogawa (1948 words, 8 pages)

People today often underestimate the trauma experienced by the Japanese in World War 1. Kogawa puts Japanese treatment during that time into perspective through her novels Obasan and Naomis Road. By crafting two novels for different age groups, Kogawa has created two pieces of literature that contrast in syntax, point ... Read More

An Analysis of the Novel Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (1302 words, 5 pages)

As society and science progresses, many ethical issues continue to arise. Some may think that certain ways of gaining knowledge may be unethical, or even cruel, while others may think that any way of obtaining knowledge is acceptable in the name of science and progress. The novel Oryx and Crake ... Read More

The Flower as a Symbol of Fertility in The Handmaid’s Tale, a Novel by Margaret Atwood (490 words, 2 pages)

Margaret Atwoods dystopian novel The Handmaids Tale depicts a patriarchal society where women have become utterly devoid of their rights. A recent revolution led by religious extremists forced the system of traditional gender roles back into society, and as a result, women are demoralized, exploited, and viewed as resources for ... Read More

The Oppression of Men and Women in A Handmaid’s Tale, a Science Fiction Novel by Margaret Atwood (990 words, 3 pages)

Margaret Atwoods science fiction novel A Handmaids Tale portrays a dystopian society, Gilead, in which citizens are heavily oppressed. The most obvious forms of oppression are dealt towards women. Gileadean women are given specific roles, such as Handmaids, whose main purpose is reproduction, or Marthas, who are essentially servants of ... Read More

The Fictitious Story of Survival at Sea with Richard Parker in Life of Pi, a Novel by Yann Martel (621 words, 2 pages)

Life of Pi, written by Yann Martel, is a riveting and extraordinary story of survival at sea. Pi Patel, a sixteen-year-old Indian boy survives at sea with a tiger for 227 days. Pi, born Piscine Molitor Patel, grows up in the South Indian city of Pondicherry, where his father runs ... Read More

A Short Comprehensive Analysis of The Breadwinner, a Book by Deborah Ellis (1045 words, 3 pages)

The title of this book is The Breadwinner. It is written by Deborah Ellis. The book is written in first person by Parvana in chronological order. The genre of the book is coming of age. This story explains the life of a young girl Parvana who lives during the time ... Read More

The Discovery of True Faith in Life of Pi, a Novel by Yann Martel (574 words, 2 pages)

In the novel, Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, the conflicts that the author describes are created by using the story of a brave young man to show when the hunger for food is raised, the hunger for higher things in life increases. As the protagonist in this story, Pi, ... Read More

An Analysis of the Symbolism of Women in The Handmaids Tale, a Novel by Margaret Atwood (1523 words, 5 pages)

In the book The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood, women were all placed in different categories. These categories were set in place to indirectly oppress and limit the women. Showing that women no matter where they are from can be put in niche and be brought down mentally no matter ... Read More

The Loss of Choice and Free Will as the Worst Thing to Happen to Mankind in The Handmaid’s Tale, a Novel by Margaret Atwood (1883 words, 6 pages)

The Worst Thing That Can Befall HumanityJean Paul Sartre once said, We are our choices. Without choices, that makes us nothing, nobody. The value of the ability to choose and judge, our free will, is our humanity and independence. It is what separates humans from animals and plants and machines. ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Half-Hanged Mary, a Poem by Margaret Atwood (711 words, 2 pages)

Half Hanged Mary Poetry AnalysisHalf-Hanged Mary by Margaret Atwood is a lengthy poem about a woman hanged for accusations of witchcraft. The piece gives the reader emotional insight to the life and thoughts of the woman who, by fault of a poorly tied knot, struggles and suffocates all night but ... Read More

The Loss of Individual Identity Due to Social Pressure and the Societal Expectations of Beauty in Oryx and Crake, a Novel by Margaret Atwood (1114 words, 3 pages)

In todays fast-paced world, individuals are constantly faced with the challenge of finding themselves through all the noise. In Margaret Atwoods Oryx and Crake (2009), societal expectations of beauty and the pressure to keep up with innovation and technology, are barriers to forming individual identities. A persons identity are the ... Read More

The Will to Survive in Life of Pi, a Novel by Yann Martel (661 words, 2 pages)

The novel Life of Pi is about a young boys incredible will to survive even though life throws him into a seemingly non-survivable situation. Pi grows up in India, where his parents are Zookeepers of the Pondicherry Zoo. Pi lives a simple life and has a close relationship with religion. ... Read More

The Negative Perspective of the Suburbs in The City Planners, a Poem by Margaret Atwood (1002 words, 3 pages)

Explore how a place is presented in two of the poems you have studied.In the poem The City Planners, Margaret Atwood has a negative view of the suburbs which emulates Chengs pessimistic view of urban development in his poem, The Planners. Atwood starts of the poem in a seemingly positive ... Read More

A Review of I’m Thinking of Ending Things, the Debut Novel of Iain Reid (953 words, 3 pages)

Iain Reids debut novel Im Thinking of Ending Things is exactly the way it sounds in a way you wouldnt expect. When I first picked this book up I expected a tragic depressing story about a stereotypical adolescent trying to find himself or herself. While reading this novel, that expectation ... Read More

Mack’s Tragic Events With God in William Paul Young’s Novel The Shack (1402 words, 5 pages)

Have you ever experienced an occurrence in life that seemed to be a miracle? That moment when you are sure that the only possible way for that encounter to be existent was if it occurred in a dream? But then it is realized that not even our minds could make ... Read More

An Interpretation of Death of a Young Son by Drowning, a Poem by Margaret Atwood (444 words, 2 pages)

I find this poem to be very hard to understand. I read a few critiques of it, and most seem to agree that it is a reflection of the authors, Margaret Atwoods, immigration to Canada and her difficulty establishing roots there in contrast to her son, who was able to ... Read More

The Importance of Love in A Real Life by Alice Munro (918 words, 4 pages)

Passage for reference A man came along and fell in love with Dorrie Beck. At least he wanted to marry her. It was true.If her brother was alive, she would never have needed to get married, Millicent said. What did she mean? Not something shameful. And she didnt mean money ... Read More

The Issues of Jimmy with Women in Oryx and Crake, a Novel by Margaret Atwood (1627 words, 7 pages)

Perception of Sexual Behavior in SocietySex, its something many people dont exactly feel comfortable taking about yet its seen everywhere in advertisement, from todays most popular music to magazines with sexy pictures and sex advice, in our society, sex sells. Yet sex isnt openly talked about when it should be, ... Read More

The Use of Vivid Language in The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (979 words, 4 pages)

In their respective novels, both Margaret Atwood and Tim OBrien use vivid language and believable anecdotes delivered from an engaging first person point of view to convince readers that their fictional worlds are real. To create a realistic dystopia set in the near future, Atwood in The Handmaids Tale describes ... Read More

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