Perceptions and assumptions in native culture - The Loons and Compatriots
“Evolution has modernized society therefore the Native Culture has been oppressed. Throughout the comparison of two short stories, “the Loons” by Margaret Laurence and “Compatriots” by Emma Lee Warrior it is evident that there are many misinterpretations and views about native people and their culture. Their coexistence, what their culture is surrounded by and their community. The authors in both stories have shown through the characters and also through metaphors just how different people’s ideas are from reality.
Vanessa’s view of Piquette as a child in the “the loons” is an interesting approach with a perception of what it means to be native. From being around an environment where she was taught certain things about natives in a stereotypical way, especially from books and her family and friends, this makes her…show more content… Vanessa yearned to feel an association with that late spring when they were children and her father was alive to help out Piquette and that made her think to the lake where they used their previous summer to hear the ameliorating resonances of the loons that she and her father used to listen to in the stillness of the summer. Furthermore she was met with a pint of misery “There was no wind that evening, and everything was quiet all around me. It seemed to quiet, and then I realized that the loons were no longer here.” (Compatriots 177) The author has utilized the illustration of the loons to highlight how pitiful and desolate it is in some cases to be Native and like the loon being driven out from the lake in the same location that the area was taken to expand on and individuals didn't positively comprehend the needs and desires of the loons is a smart one as it is additionally valid for the Native groups, individuals and
