The Sound Of The Singing
The short story, The Sound Of The Singing, deals with conflicts and how they effect the people in them and around them. Vanessa McLeod is a dynamic character who changes her perception of herself in the course of the story. Through her changed perception, Margaret Laurence is suggesting that a person’s identity is change by their surroundings and the conflicts they fight through in there lives.Vanessa, still naive, consciously resists the “upright” values of her family and believes she has control of her own identity therefore she, purposely attempts in many early parts of the story, to show ways of opposing her entire family. “I was prepared, for the question was the same each week. I rarely listened in Sunday school, finding it more entertaining to compose in my head stories of spectacular heroism in which I figured as a central character, so I never knew what the text had been.” This shows that the reason she does not listen in Sunday school is because it doesn’t hold any interest for her. But openly knowing the question before it is asked ea
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Approximate Word count = 738
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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