ENG110Y5 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Platitude, Mohawk People
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Thomas king- writes a lot from the perspective of a first nations person. Fredrick douglas- literacy was a break into freedom, while king"s oral tradition was the memory of the people. Through my language i understand that i am the one being spoken to. The novel is written in a complicated frame. There is a narrator, but he is not telling the story to the reader but to a character in a novel, the trickster god coyote. Masse lectures are lectures given by a famous canadian. King was the first to give a masse lecture on cbc. In the west we believe we are all different, special snowflakes. King says that we are an interpretation of the stories that shaped us. The same story just told in a different context. Could be in the voice of the storyteller, the reaction of the audience, or the details. They did not broadcast it or have any power in the presentations.
