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Kanadska Kratka Priča 1 A Red Girl S Reasononig
Kanadska Kratka Priča 1 A Red Girl S Reasononig
how fool he was, and searches for her for months, but when he found her she rejects him.
The final seen of the story: She is standing on the porch in her cloak, she is walking towards her,
she is above him, he fells on his knees and claims on her heart, but she does not want to have
anything to do with him. When he touches her arm, her arm burns, because she longs for him so
much, but she tells him that she does not like him anymore ( she lies ). She tells this because she is
proud out of being hurt by him. What is it that actually hurt her? Which word of his? 'God knows'
He says everything would have been different if you should have kept silence, and she says: Would
that have change anything? He says: God knows.
This means that his love for her was not absolute, it was imperfect.
His final mistake was that he left without a fight. He is ravished with what had happened, he loves
her but he is too young. He longs for love, the only love he can find is in his dog ( opposite of god )
and he says: Dog can you forsaken me? And only dog is there to lick his face.
Can this dogmatic world view make a person happy? We see that God left him when he needed him
most. And her name is Christine, wasn't she his salvation? The problem was, he did not understand
that or he misunderstood it, and he was not aware of it.
Dopuna: The role of his brother- he is silent, he doesn't make any comments about his brother's
marriange and he doesn't complain. So, his brother has to ask him whether it is strange for a red girl
to live with him. Charlie was probably worried already, he was uncertain whether he did the right
thing or not. And then, when Christine joins the conversation she says for his brother Joe that he is a
fine man and if Charlie ever fails her, Joea would be a good replacement. What does that tell us of
Christine? Maybe she really felt that. It seems to us that the two men are interchangeable, they are
the two white men, so what is the difference. He is an interesting character who has a much deeper
understanding of the comlexity of this situation than either Christine or Charlie. So, why is this
story complex?
Homi Bhabha: hyber identity is possible. There is a space of one nation and there is a space of
another nation, but there is also the third space that may belong to both nations. There is this
overlapping space and the persons who develop this sort of identity, which is then a hyber identity,
they would actually benefit from the heritage of the both sources, both cultures. This was the case
with the metis. In the marriage btw Christine and Charlie they managed to create this third space,
they marriage was very good until it was exposed to the test at the ball.
Edward Said- the idea of the other: considering someone that is different than you as 'the other'.
How is that relevant for early Canada? Feminism: Who were the women that tried to fight for their
rights? Not the Aboriginal women, thay did not exist at all. White women would refuse if some
Aboriginal women wanted to join. They were selfish, they fought for their own rights. Let's first get
this and then we will think of you. That is how they indirectly labelled them.
VEZBE:
The first native Canadian poet
The clash between the imperialist white culture and fetishized image of the native people
Christine is perceived as the cultured Indian. Charlie was proud of her, they saw her as the sweetest
wild flower.
-One version of the stereotype is this look of the Indians as savages, barbarians, who can improve,
who can be civilized. So she did not offer resistance to this doctrine on the part of the white
but she says she does not like him. ( lie ). The difference btw the private and the public set of values.
This is how she shows that the principles of her society were much more important to her than love.
This shows the paradox in the title: Red girls can reason.