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,My Attitudes towards Piquettes ChangeThe short story The Loons creates a half-bred girl by the name of Piqurtte Tonnerre. She grows up under harsh circumstances in a white-dominated society. The story is told by another girl, Vanessa. She is Piquettes classmates. But she just knows that Piquette is the daughter of Lazarus, who has tuberculosis. Piquettes sickness is almost the only thing Vanessa know about her. Because her father is the doctor who has looked after Piquette. Piquette was invited to spend the summer holiday with the doctors family in the Diamond Lake for the sake of her health. Several years later, Vanessa happens to meet Piquette in a caf and she tells Vanessa that she is going to marry a white man, and four years later when Vanessa comes home on her holiday,she learns that Piquette is burnt to death together with her two children.In the short novel, Piquette has changed herself a lot in order to fit in the main current of the society.As we know, Piquette was an Metis which is an ancient aboriginal nation. She lives a life with discrimination. By the end of 19th century, the people fought against the invasion of the federal government protect their living environment and the sovereignty of their territory, but they failed. The white culture became the main current of the society. Of course they would live a life of shame and humiliation. Piquette Tonnerre was French half-breeds. As a Metis girl, she was not able to own a happy life and receive a good education as her peers. Whats more, she suffered tuberculosis. The miserable life kept her uncured, and always be absent from school. The social background contributes a lot to her character. Those prejudices made Piquette become a cold and unsociable girl. When the writer was spending her peculiar summer with Piquette, the girl seemed to have little to say and was not very friendly to the writer. The writer describe her, “She was sitting on the swing her lame leg held stiffly out, and her other foot scuffing the ground as she swung slowly back and forth, Her long hair hung black and straight around her shoulders, and her broad coarse-featured face bore no expression-it was blank, as though she no longer dwelt within her own skull, as though she had gone elsewhere.” When the writer ask her to come and play. She answered, “I am not a kid.” The writer caught every chance to talk with her. But Piquette always answered the writers question with simple and distant words. Such as, “so what”, “who gives a good goddamn?”, “not me.” Piquette and the writer remained ill at ease with each other.，which made the writer fell sorry her father. And she did not know what was the matter. All that summer Piquette remained as both a reproach and a mystery to the writer. But when a few years later, the writer met Piquette again in the public place, the girl changed quite a lot. Her face, so stolid and expressionless before, was animated now with a gaiety that was almost violent. She laughed and talked very loudly with the boys around her. Her lipstick was bright carmine, and her hair was cut short and frizzily permed. She had not been pretty as a child, and she was not pretty now, for her features were still heavy and blunt. But her dark and slightly sainted eyes were beautiful, and her skin-tight skirt and orange sweater displayed to enviable advantage a soft and slender body. When Piquette said that she will marry an English Fella, a very tall guy, got blond wavy hair. Her defiant face, momentarily, became unguarded and unmasked, and in her eyes there was a terrifying hope.Although all of her changes make the writer feel uncomfortable and surprised. And Piquette has to choose a way of committing suicide with her two children after her husband left her. However, from my point of view, Piquette has done what she should do. Her changes have made her different from other Indians. She has tried her best to find position in this white-dominating society.Life is really about change. You are the only one who cares about your success. You sometimes need to change in order to reach your goals. There is a saying goes, “Be the water, not the rock.” When water hits an obstacle, it flows around it. When a rock hits a barrier, it either breaks or stops, but never gets past. Only by discovering how life actually does work can you figure a way to adapt. You sometimes need to change to make your dreams come ture.Most people in the society pay more attention the results before they decide to change. They always imagine that their life will become worse than before. Finally, they refused to change. Focusing on results is a losing game in two ways. First, its discouraging, because you are not going to lose fifty pounds in a day, when they want to lose weight. You are probably not going to clean years of trash accumulation from your garage or house in an hour or two.Really worthwhile changes take time. Second, focusing on results makes you want to take rash shortcuts. Shortcuts like using diet pills when you should be changing your eating and exercise habits, or like indulging in a fit of “spring cleaning” that sucks up all your time and still does not get the job done.They use up all your focus and willpower long before you can “finish” the results you want, and do nothing to reach your goals. In the story The Loons, Piquette changes her original character. If she thinks about the result, she may be still the one who was emotionless, unfriendly. And she will accept the destiny of Indians. However, she does not. She has the courage to change herself to reach her goals that she can live as equal as white people. If she did not change at that time, she must fail at the beginning.Many people around us are worried to change. Because they worry the results may be worse than before. There is no doubt that change is to risk. Risk is a response to the unknown, taken in order to produce discovery and yield a gain or a reaction to pain in the present, taken in order to escape the unpleasant present or future consequences of that pain, to prevent a loss. We like to think that the most intelligent approach to risk is to attempt to make every risk a calculated response rather than a reaction, even when pain and possible loss are the motivators. So what you should do is to recognize what risks is necessary. For example, to risk leaving a job for another that pays more money could have good short term outcomes, but if the job you move into involves working with people you can not stand, or affiliating with a company that may go out of business in a year or two, then todays risk may not be worthwhile. Recently, some of my classmates are under the mercy of taking graduate study. They worry that if they could not pass the examination, they will waste ten months to prepare it. They always ask a question, “Can I find a job after I finish the graduate study?” Therefore it is hard for them to make a decision whether they should do it. Actually, taking the examination is also a risk. As what they worried, they may waste a lot of time to prepare it. They also may be not good as the undergraduate students after they finish the graduate study. However, if you do not have a risk, how can you know the result? If you want to reach your goals, you should take a risk to change yourself. Because the worst result is that you can find a job as other undergraduate students. Like Piquette, to still live under the discrimination is the worst result. But she can accept the worst result. So if you can accept the worst result, you can get the chance to change.We tend to assume that circumstances change easily and often, but that people change rarely, slowly, and with great difficulty.But these assumptions are wrong. The truth is that people can change easily and instantly.The real problem is that they also change back just as easily!Meanwhile, the circumstances of our lives change slowly in comparison. So if you want to change your life, you would better change your actions, not your circumstances.Piquette lives in a society of discrimination. Canada racial discrimination dates back to European slave trade period. Canadians freely use the term “visible minority” to refer to all people of colour. As the exist of discrimination in Canada, Piquette suffer the suspicion from others. In The Loons, when Vanessas mother knew that Piquette would spend the summer with them, she said unconsciously, “I will bet anything that there must have nits in her hair” “well be glad to have her, as long as she behaves herself.” We can see that there was some worry that Piquette would do something bad to them deep down in her heart. This is one of the evidence of suspicion for the Indians as if they were all undisciplined. She can do nothing to change the environment around her. The only thing what she can do is to change her actions. And she did it. She had changed dramatically. Before, she was emotionless and her face was stolid and expressionless. She could not say a lot of things to express herself. She dressed in plain clothes and seemed to be every bit as ordinary as possible. But later on, she changed: her face was animated with extreme happiness; she was talkative and talked very loudly with the boy around her; she put on make-ups to make herself more stunning; and she had a slender body to wear beautiful clothes. She could not change the society, she has to change herself if she want to live better.Maybe you think the story is far away from us. I will take a famous writer as an example. Shi Tiesheng, a famous writer in China, born in 1951 and died on December 31, 2010. Although he has no chance to hear the bell of 2011, his article will influence the next generation. He was paralyzed when he was young, so it is impossible for him to walk around. He could not change the truth that he could not go to work as normal people. But he changed himself. He spent the whole day in the park every day, using beautiful words to describe what he saw in the park. Finally, he wrote a book named The Temple of Earth Park which is famous in China. He wrote, “A bee like a tiny piece of mist hung on in midair, an ant was deep in thought, its head wagging and its antennae quivering, and then, all of a sudden, it must have come up with right answer, for it turned back and scudded off.” From the beautiful words we can imagine that he also can enjoy his life. This just because he changed his actions towards life.Life is every moment, please have the courage to make change. Although you may fail at last, you had tried your best to reach your goals at least.After reading the loons The loons was created by her mother-Margaret Laurence, in 1970.歌声欢舞是由她的母亲-Margaret劳伦斯,在1970年。Margaret Laurence (1926-1987) was one of the most important writer in 1960s in Canada.玛格丽特劳伦斯(1926 - 1987)是一种最重要的作家在1960年代在加拿大。She was a prolific writer.她是一位多产的作家。Her works includes novels, essay and children stories.她的作品包括小说、散文和孩子们的故事。In the series of Manawaka her special female writing skills described a series of female protagonist who were struggling for their selves-value to us.在一系列的Manawaka她的特殊女性写作技巧的女主人公描述一个系列的人selves-value纷起争夺他们给我们。It was a challenge to traditional literature which always treated the males view as central.这是一个挑战,传统文学的观点总是对男性为中心。In the story, the loons, the author created a native Mtis girl by the name of Piquette Tonnerre, and told a story about the girl through the first person.在故事中,歌声欢舞,塑造出一个土生土长的梅蒂斯人的名字叫著名的女孩,告诉一篇关于女孩通过第一人。The story between Piquette and “I” had three periods, and we can see them from the following paragraphs in the book.著名的故事,“我”之间有三个时期,我们可以看到他们从以下段落的书。And the line which connected us together was “my father”.路线和我们在一起连接着“我的父亲”。Piquette Tonnerre and I were classmates.著名和我的同班同学。She was older than I, but she had failed several grades, perhaps because her attendance had always been sporadic and her interest in school was negligible.她年纪比我,但她没有几个等级,也许是因为她出席一直零星事件,她的兴趣在学校微不足道。Part of the reason she had missed a lot of school was that she had had tuberculosis of the bone, and had once spent many months in hospital.部分原因她错过了很多学校就是她曾患了肺结核病的骨头,曾经花了大量时间在医院里。Such kind of a girl was always less attention.这样的一个女孩总是关注较少。However, I noticed her, because my father, the doctor who had looked after her, wanted to take her up to Diamond Lake with us this summer.然而,我注意到她的,因为我爸爸,医生曾照顾她,想把她跟我们到钻石湖今年夏天。 The time during the Diamond Lake was the first period.的时间在钻石湖是第一期。At there, Piquette began to interest me and I set about getting her trust.在那里,我感兴趣的著名,我开始着手她的信任。I felt I had somehow failed my father.我觉得我不知何故没有我的父亲。The second period was when we met each other in the Regal Caf.第二段,当我们见面了那位雍容华贵的咖啡馆。It was four years later after we left Diamond Lake.四年后,我们离开了钻石湖。Piquette must had been seventeen then, although she looked about twenty.必须已经17然后著名,尽管她看上去二十岁左右。Then she told me that my dad was the only person in Manawaka that ever done anything good to her.然后她告诉我,我的爸爸是只有你一个人的,未做过任何Manawaka好给她。I knew a little more than I had that summer at Diamond Lake, but I could not reach her now any more than I had then, I was ashamed, ashamed of my own timidity, the tendency to look the other way.我知道我有多一点的那个夏天在钻石湖,但我不能找到她现在任何比我在当时看到的,我很羞愧,惭愧我的胆怯,倾向于寻求其它途径。Whats more, she said she would get married with her boyfriend who was an English fella in the city.更重要的是,她说她要和她结婚的男朋友是一个英语小伙子在这座城市里。The last period was when I came back home at the end of my first college year.过去的时期是当我回家的时候,我的第一所大学最后一年。My mother told me Piquette was dead.我妈妈告诉我著名死了。She came back here with two youngsters, both only babies.她回来,都有两个年轻人只有婴儿。She kept house for her brother.她把房子了她的哥哥。And she putd on an awful lot of weight, and she looked a mess, a real slattern, dressed any old how.而且,她把一个可怕的体重增加了不少,她看起来一团乱,一个真正的裹脚、穿着旧的如何。One night, the shock which Piquette lived in caught fire, she didnt get out, and neither did the children.一天晚上,休克,著名住在起火了,她没出去,也没有孩子。Each of the three periods represents a different period of Piquettes life.三个时期的每一个时期的著名代表一个不同的生活。In the first period, Piquette just was a little girl.在前一时期著名只是一个小女孩。She wasnt a beautiful girl.她不是一个漂亮的女孩。At school, she always wore ugly and dirty clothes, had a hoarse voice and a clumsy limping walk.在学校里,她总是穿着脏衣服,丑陋,用沙哑的声音和一个笨拙的一瘸一拐的走了。Almost all students didnt like her.几乎所有的学生都不喜欢她。In her home, she had no mother who escaped few years ago and a lazy brother and a drunken father, so she had to do most of the housework.在她的家里,她没有母亲逃脱,一个懒惰几年前哥哥和醉酒的父亲,所以她不得不做大部分家务。Therefore, this girl wanted to keep herself away from people, even children.因此,这个女孩想让自己远离的人,甚至是孩子。Sometimes people thought her soul had been left her body.有时人们认为她的灵魂已经离开了自己的身体。