Part one of term paper
The play is written by one of Canada’s most celebrated playwrights, Tomson Highway. Highway was born in 1951 in northwestern Manitoba. He went on to study at the University of Manitoba and graduated from the University of Western Ontario, with honors in Music and English. Native Literature is inspired by “contemporary social p ...

Part two of term paper
... the core of our identity as people.”(P. 172 Native Literature in Canada.) I am going to focus on the image and identity of Native people as seen through the play . Identity is “how you view yourself and your life.” (p. 12 Knots in a String.) Your identity helps you determine where you think you fit in, in your life. It is “a rich complexity of images, ideas and associations.”(p. 12 Knots in a String.) It is given that as we go through our lives and encounter diffe ...