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My Attitudes towards Piquette’s Change
The short story The Loons creates a half-bred girl by the name of Piqurtte Tonnerre. She grows up under harsh circumstances in a white-dominated society. The story is told by another girl, Vanessa. She is Piquette’s classmates. But she just knows that Piquette is the daughter of Lazarus, who has tuberculosis. Piquette’s sickness is almost the only thing Vanessa know about her. Becau her father is the doctor who has looked after Piquette. Piquette was invited to spend the summer holiday with the doctor’s family in the Diamond Lake for the sake of her health. Several years later, Vanessa happens to meet Piquette in a café and she tells Vanessa that she is going to marry a white man, and four years later when Vanessa comes home on her holiday,she learns that Piquette is burnt to death together with her two children.
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In the short novel, Piquette has changed herlf a lot in order to fit in the main current of the society.
compactpciAs we know, Piquette was an Metis which is an ancient aboriginal nation. She lives a life wit摄氏度英文
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h discrimination. By the end of 19th century, the people fought against the invasion of the federal government protect their living environment and the sovereignty of their territory, but they failed. The white culture became the main current of the society. Of cour they would live a life of shame and humiliation. Piquette Tonnerre was French half-breeds. As a Metis girl, she was not able to own a happy life and receive a good education as her peers. What’s more, she suffered tuberculosis. The mirable life kept her uncured, and always be abnt from school. The social background contributes a lot to her character. Tho prejudices made Piquette become a cold and unsociable girl. When the writer was spending her peculiar summer with Piquette, the girl emed to have little to say and was not very friendly to the writer. The writer describe her, “She was sitting on the swing her lame leg held stiffly out, and her other foot scuffing the ground as she swung slowly back and forth, Her long hair hung black and straight around her shoulders, and her broad coar-featured face bore no expression---it was blank, as though she no longer dwelt within her own skull, as though she had gone elwhere.” When the writer ask her to come and play. She answered, “I am not a kid.” The writer caught every chance to talk wit
h her. But Piquette always answered the writer’s question with simple and distant words. Such as, “so what”, “who gives a good goddamn?”, “not me.” Piquette and the writer remained ill at ea with each other.，which made the writer fell sorry her father. And she did not know what was the matter. All that summer Piquette remained as both a reproach and a mystery to the writer. But when a few years later, the writer met Piquette again in the public place, the girl changed quite a lot. Her face, so stolid and expressionless before, was animated now with a gaiety that was almost violent. She laughed and talked very loudly with the boys around her. Her lipstick was bright carmine, and her hair was cut short and frizzily permed. She had not been pretty as a child, and she was not pretty now, for her features were still heavy and blunt. But her dark and slightly sainted eyes were beautiful, and her skin-tight skirt and orange sweater displayed to enviable advantage a soft and slender body. When Piquette said that she will marry an English Fella, a very tall guy, got blond wavy hair. Her defiant face, momentarily, became unguarded and unmasked, and in her eyes there was a terrifying hope.
Although all of her changes make the writer feel uncomfortable and surprid. And Piquet
te has to choo a way of committing suicide with her two children after her husband left her. However, from my point of view, Piquette has done what she should do. Her changes have made her different from other Indians. She has tried her best to find position in this white-dominating society.
复古风英文Life is really about change. You are the only one who cares about your success. You sometimes need to change in order to reach your goals. There is a saying goes, “Be the water, not the rock.” When water hits an obstacle, it flows around it. When a rock hits a barrier, it either breaks or stops, but never gets past. Only by discovering how life actually does work can you figure a way to adapt. You sometimes need to change to make your dreams come ture.
Most people in the society pay more attention the results before they decide to change. They always imagine that their life will become wor than before. Finally, they refud to change. Focusing on results is a losing game in two ways. First, it’s discouraging, becau you are not going to lo fifty pounds in a day, when they want to lo weight. Y确认英文
ou are probably not going to clean years of trash accumulation from your garage or hou in an hour or two. Really worthwhile changes take time. Second, focusing on results makes you want to take rash shortcuts. Shortcuts like using diet pills when you should be changing your eating and exerci habits, or like indulging in a fit of “spring cleaning” that sucks up all your time and still does not get the job done. They u up all your focus and willpower long before you can “finish” the results you want, and do nothing to reach your goals.
In the story The Loons, Piquette changes her original character. If she thinks about the result, she may be still the one who was emotionless, unfriendly. And she will accept the destiny of Indians. However, she does not. She has the courage to change herlf to reach her goals that she can live as equal as white people. If she did not change at that time, she must fail at the beginning.滑雪装
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Many people around us are worried to change. Becau they worry the results may be wor than before. There is no doubt that change is to risk. Risk is a respon to the unk
nown, taken in order to produce discovery and yield a gain or a reaction to pain in the prent, taken in order to escape the unpleasant prent or future conquences of that pain, to prevent a loss. We like to think that the most intelligent approach to risk is to attempt to make every risk a calculated respon rather than a reaction, even when pain and possible loss are the motivators. So what you should do is to recognize what risks is necessary. For example, to risk leaving a job for another that pays more money could have good short term outcomes, but if the job you move into involves working with people you can not stand, or affiliating with a company that may go out of business in a year or two, then today’s risk may not be worthwhile.
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