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A 4 page essay that offers a brief synopsis and analysis of two Canadian novels, Gabrielle Roy's The Road Past Altamont and Anne Hebert's Kamouraska. The writer discusses the meanings behind these two feminist works. No additional sources cited.
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section stands alone as a complete narrative. In the first two stories, "My Almighty Grandmother" and "The Old Man and the Child," Roy looks at the end of life through
the eyes of child. Christine first witnesses the decline and death of her grandmother, her Memere, an intelligent who seems god-like to Christine in the power of her creativity. Christine
comes to this conclusion after her grandmother creates an exquisitely detailed doll from bits of scrap cloth, using only her own ingenuity. Christine concludes that "it could not possibly be
a made who made the world. But perhaps an old woman with extremely capable hands" (Roy 16). From this picture of vitality and creativity in old age, Roy goes on
to show the Grandmother two year later, held prisoner in her own body by a stroke. Christine brings her grandmother the family photo album and finds among the pictures a
photo of her grandmother when she was young, surrounded by her family. Christine relates that she began to "understand vaguely a little about life and the successive beings it makes
of us as we increase in age" (Roy 30). Christine again connects with an elderly person in the next story where she befriends an elderly man. She continues to
be troubled by the nature of life and how, so often, those we love are either ahead of us or behind on lifes journey. Each of the stories involves some
sort of journey -- to see Christines grandmother, to Lake Winnipeg with the old man, Monsieur Saint-Hilaire. In the third story, "The Move," Christine who is now eleven, defies her
mother and takes her first independent journey when she accompanies a neighbor child on one of her Saturday trips with her father, a part-time mover. Christine learns, however, that all
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