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Atwoods Theory of Canadian Short Stories
Margaret Atwood detects that in most Canadian stories there seems to be some sort of victim and their quest for survival. In the stories The Wedding Gift, The Butterfly Ward, and Skald, we find three of her four types of victims. First there are creative non-vic ....
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.... an incredible amount of intelligence in her situation.
The Butterfly Ward by Margaret Gibson introduces the reader to Kira, a patient of the Neurological Ward in a Toronto hospital. She is the type of victim who blames her mental illness on something else, "the amoeba"(104). She claims that "it is nourishing itself on what they call [her] brain."(104), it "changes shape"(105) and this is the reason Kira gives for the doctors inability to locate the amoeba on the "bloated-brain scan"(105). It is like she is unable or unwilling to take responsibility into her own hands ....
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