7.1 - My Novel Assignment
1. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood {LEE & TINA}
2. The Road by Cormac McCarthy {THOMAS & VINCENT}
3. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger {BRYAN}
4. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury {DELBERT & ERIC}
5. Maria Chapdelaine by Louis Hemon {LAURA}
6. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman {CHRISTINA & KHLOE}
7. Animal Farm by George Orwell. { CODY and JOSEPH}
Lecture Overview
The novel, Indian Horse, by Ojibway writer Richard Wagamese is about the journey of a young Ojibway boy from childhood to adulthood. It can be read as a Hero’s Archetypal Journey while also being a literary work that deals with colonialism as well as the author’s biography as two key points of view that ground the story in reality.
Indian Horse is fiction, but the story it tells is true. Each character in this story is larger than their own role: they are symbols for the experiences of hundreds of thousands of other indigenous people. When the novel and film touch on the boyhood of Saul Indian Horse being taken to residential School in the 1960s, he represents every child who experienced this tragic part of Canadian history