ENGC02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Sensory Overload, Picaresque Novel, Drug Lord
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Trust (often cannot trust those who have a share your background, rennie incorrectly assumes it is the other that cannot be trusted. It is important to have trust however there are people who are in fact out to get you). Vulnerable > because of: language barriers, criminal background, diseases. New identities some gained willingly other imposed. This may be because he is a male character. This provides some insight into canadian social history in 1974. Slaney is being targeted by his own country while the two women can use their country to their benefit. This novel regionalizes canada (people from newfoundland and quebec sometimes view themselves as foreigners and/or victims in their own country, relating to their reluctance to join. The women from the other texts are relinquishing their white privilege while slaney is going after more. (slaney suffers from hubris , he is planning on breaking the law and be rich).
