Margaret Atwood and Surfacing
The use of animals in literature as either characters with human qualities or in situations that humans face, has long been a device of authors who hope to creatively convey moral messages in their work. Animals often appear in children's literature such as fables in order to make lessons pleasurable and attractive to young readers. In adult literature, animals and the animal-like are commonly used by authors to demonstrate and instruct readers on lessons in the human experience. Stories of life in the Great White North are perhaps appropriately and most often expressed in terms of the environment and nature because of the vastness and dominance of the land in much of Canada. Interestingly, it seems that many Canadian authors use animal imagery because of the sense of how imminent the animalistic is in the environment the theme of biological and geographical origins occupy such a central place in Canadian literature. Interestingly, it seems that many Canadian authors make a strong connection to the animal world because of the sense of how imminent the animalistic is in the environment. . As Canadian readers, animal imagery can help us to recognize things in our behavior. In Sheila Watson's The Double Hook and in Ma
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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