ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Alistair Macleod, Family Values

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1120
• Professor: Gaye Taylor

Document Summary

There can be multiple initiations until you die. They must face a resolution phase maybe. 26-27 year old man who sounds like an old man who has been beaten down by life. The ending the big event that scars him is the death of his father, and it may be a suicide. Another hint that it could have been a planned thing was that he disappeared on the last day of the fishing season. I hope you remember what you said foreshadowing the father is the advocate for the boy to go off to school. I hope you remember you said as long as i live, so when i die you must go off and go to school. The father is heavily influencing or forcing the decision of his son. This is a coming of age but also a sacrifice story, the father sacrifices himself in order to set his son free. His fathers death is permeating everything he sees.