1. The Turning Point
In "Where the World Began" Margaret Laurence is saying that the land she grew up in, the Canadian prairies, is lodged deep in her soul and has stayed with her throughout her life. ... These dead included grandparents, uncles, who had died at a young age in the war and whose corpses really lay buried in France, and parents who died at a relatively early age. ... The names of the uncles who had died at the age of eighteen or nineteen during the First World War were carved on the granite family stones in the cemetery; they were memorialized, even though their bodies remained in France. ...
Simmons, the house sitter, also had a strange encounter with a man, as just described, saying he destroyed a picture of Mr. ... [Theodore is found at a convent in France by Count Marsini] Theodore, back from the "grave", tells his whole story to his family and friends of what happened to him during the 17 years he was missing. ... Then after reaching France again he was arrested and but in the Bastille for 3 years. ...
Antoinette is categorized as being creole or a person with mixed backgrounds or ethnicities such as black, white, European, and more specifically French. ... Rochester about what Antoinettes mother had to endure by saying, They drive her to it. ... Antoinette embraces her numerous and merged identities involving family, race, and social status by saying, I will write my name in fire red, Antoinette Mason, nee Cosway, Mount Calvary Convent, Spanish Town, Jamaica, 1839 (52). ...
Cordelia is also in Dover leading an army of the French to save her father from her corrupted sisters. ... Another example is when Edmund forged a letter that was written by his brother Edgar saying that he was going to kill his father Gloucester. ...
My Special House Out of all the houses I have ever lived in there is only, truly one that is engraved in my memories. It was a farm far out in the country side. I remember when I first saw it: the glistening pool and tall overpowering black slate steps. Which lead to the huge glass French d...