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The Different Perspectives Of


The sublime beauty she found in Canada is destroyed by its roughness and the isolation it imposed on her. Moodie was terrified of her wild surroundings, and Trail was scared as well - especially of getting lost in the bush. Moodie's fear often exposes itself in the supernatural elements that emerge in her work, she has difficulty identifying the sources of her unease which makes alleviating it problematical. Trail's fear of her surroundings discloses itself in exciting and suspenseful adventures involving specific and realistic danger. Typical of adventure stories, Trail's have favorable outcomes that redeem the Canadian bush and invalidate her initial suspicion of it. Moodie's work persists in its message that Canada is a sometimes beautiful but overall a miserable place. .
             That life was difficult for Canadian pioneers is clear in the writing of Catherine Par Traill. She is not writing from a view point of denial. Like Moodie's Roughing It in the Bush , The Backwoods of Canada does not portray an easy blissful life. Catherine's work relates the demanding tasks associated with living in the bush. It is clear that for her to keep up anything close to the style of life she grew up with would have been impossible. The difference between her account and her sister's is her willingness to take her new home for what it is rather than constantly comparing it to the way she knew before. Traill is less bitter about the transition; she embraces the differences rather than criticizing them to dwell in misery and loss.
             In Roughing it In The Bush Moodie calls emigration an act of "severe duty [ ] performed at the expense of personal enjoyment-(Bennett 94). She maintains this perspective on her situation as a colonial with a degree of stubbornness - that is to say that the theme is consistently present in her body of writing. She speaks of the effort to persuade British citizens to the colony as though it were a campaign of outright deceit.


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