Thursday, January 18, 2007

Rita Joe and the world around her

" So she went back to the reserve to catch fish an cut pulpwood."(Pg25)

She thinks shes going back to the reserve to make lots of money and do the work of her father, she doesn't realize that since people in the outside world out of the reserve people doen't appreate her for what she does. Individuals isoltated her because they felt that she was just child and that she didn't deserve to make a living. Citizens treated her as a child. She moved to the city to make money but the city people did not accept her due to her religion. Rita's sister was isolated due to her culture too.


"Kids feed popcorn to seagulls... an i think to myself... boy! Pigeons eat pretty good here."(Pg20)


When rita was on the reserve the government and every else on the reserve was givin everything and they servive on the government to function and stay alive. When she got out into the city she saw the kids and people feeding the pgeons and thought the same thing happened out her as in the reserve everything is given to you so she almost felt at home. She soon realize that the world outside is completely different to the world inside the reserve and she will struggle to understand and hopefully learn to servive on her own.




" And then i saw this child beside the road, dressed in a blouse and skirt, barefooted." (Pg26)

The magistrate still see's the people from the reserve as children. He thinks that they still need help to servive and thats why they are on the reserve. He thinks they need eveything given to them and nedd housing and work and little pay to stay alive. With the people of the utside world doing this the people living on the rerserve will never be able to live outside because they would be able to do things on there own. Like the pigeons with the help of the humans they would die smae for the people on the reserve.

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