Part one of term paper
Margaret Atwood’s novel Surfacing tells the story of a young Canadian woman’s search for her missing father and finding a new sense of herself along the way. The author uses imagery to portray the narrator’s feelings of enclosure that she struggles with upon returning to her childhood home and her subsequent release of those feelings a ...

Part two of term paper
... the crowds” (14), the narrator invokes the powerful images of war but refers to her own life as feeling “like peace” (14). Having led such a sheltered life she was unprepared for life outside the bush. Mocked and ridiculed at schools for always being different and new also had poignant effects on the narrator. She never felt as though she belonged. She describes the feeling like “being socially retarded” and states that it is comparable to “being mentally retarded, it arouses in ...