Drama is important parts of the Canadian 's life in North America. A majority of people receives individual musical tuition since they study at high school. The approach is based on the belief that, light or profound, drama is one of the great pleasures of life and a good way to enjoy it, is to make it! Therefore, dramatic productions provide opportunities for expressing ideas and issues to perform on stage. Tomson Highway has a very successful record of plays such as "The Rez Sisters", "Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing", "Rose" and "The Incredible Adventures of Mary Jane Mosquito" about the Native people, especially "The Rez Sisters". The author succeeds in a wide range of extra-curricular activities to send a message not only for white people but also for all minorities" people including natives and immigrations. He brings up an idea that whether members of minorities should or should not abandon the culture of their origins in order to integrate into mainstream Canada. Let take a review of "The Rez Sister" to accomplish what Tomson try to tell us. .
Our entire life - production, politics, and education - rests on quantity, on numbers. The worker, who once took pride in the thoroughness and quality of his work, has been replaced by brainless, incompetent automatons, which turn out enormous quantities of things, valueless to themselves, and generally injurious to the rest of mankind. Thus quantity, instead of adding to life's comforts and peace, has merely increased man's burden. As the same meaning, we can recognize that is why Pelajia Patchnose, one of main characters in the play, wants to leave the Wasaychigan Hill Indian reserve where she has spent more than 40 years, to go to Toronto, a city is called "the dream city". (Page 1 - 10) In fact, there is no different between Toronto and the reserve, except everything in Toronto is much more than in small towns, under many people's visions.
The Rez Sisters We have all experienced the many challenges life has to offer us, sometimes we over come them by climbing over the mountain and other times we take the long way around. ... Pelajia Patchnose wants to pave all the roads on the Rez so Nanabush will come back and dance. ...
The Role of A Trickster And It's Use In The Rez Sisters The trickster figure in native mythology has many different roles and characteristics, which Tomson Highway demonstrates in his play The Rez Sisters. ... The other women "ease (her) back into the van" and go on with their journey (Rez, 94). ... And the Bingo Master changes, with sudden bird-like movements, into the nighthawk, Nanabush in dark feathers" (Rez, 103) and he "escorts Marie-Adele into the spirit world" (Rez, 104). Nanabush is a "clownish sort of a character" who adds comedy and confusion with his "tricks" (Rez, XII). ...
Benito Juárez was born to an indigenous family in San Pablo Guelatao, Oaxaca, in 1806. In the city of Oaxaca, he lived with his sister who was a servant at the house of Don Antonio Maza. ... When Santa Anna returned to power, many liberals, including Juárez, were expelled from Mexico. ... In October 1867, Benito Juárez was reelected President of the Republic. ... Benito Juárez was reelected as President for the last time in 1871. ...
Mary Sprit is the sister of Arnold, the main character in "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian," written by Sherman Alexie. ... Leaving her life in the "rez" didn't mean leaving her family. ... If she hadn't left the "rez" and took a chance, a risk, believing in her self, Mary would have stayed trapped in the basement of her families house with no spirit left, her soul would have been dead. ...
After tie, they were a big hit, so when Guadalajara's leader was arrested in 1989, the group's remaining members divided up its trafficking routes into, which created the Sinaloa, Juárez, and Tijuana cartels. ... But our people - my white brothers and sisters - will stay committed to a non-violent resolution....
Carmen Pérez also thinks that Heathcliff's arrival is a mechanism against authority His deep attachment to Cathy works to give her autonomy and power to do as she wishes, that is, to reject paternal authority; and the two children grow in an atmosphere of wild freedom ( 166). ...
