Bird in the House

REVISED genus genus Vanessa Distressed pistillate In Margaret Laurences A Bird in the theater of operations By Adeline Hartono 20336566 For Professor Vardon Date Monday November 14th, 2011 In Margaret Laurences A Bird in the House, the egg-producing(prenominal) constitutions in the story are helpless and straiten. Each temper fences to reach their own personal freedoms and is constantly battling through the ups and downs of life. This issue brings close the essence of entrapment, which is apparent in the collection.It can be further look onn in regards to the female and main character, Vanessa Macleod. A Bird in the House tells a story about the life of Vanessa Macleod, the protagonist, and the rocky excursion she endures throughout the process of growing up. Life is never easy for Vanessa, for she faces umpteen challenges and tragedies throughout her childhood. In the collection, Vanessa possesses a unique quality in that she is able to find ways to deal and cope with the harsh events taking place in her life.One way in which she illustrates this is through her many literature of productive stories. When she wrote and developed ideas, Vanessa escapes any feelings of entrapment and helplessness however, one of the hardest things Vanessa has to endure is the numerous losses of her loved ones prime(prenominal)ly, the passing of her beloved granny Connor, whom she adored and loved in truth much, and shortly, in months after her cobblers last, the passing of her baffle, Ewen Macleod. reveal of the two, the greatest lost in which Vanessa continues to struggle through is her beats death.Throughout her childhood, she has always wanted to be closer with her father, only when with the traffic in which he holds, a medical student, it is difficult for the both of them to ever construct any time to spend together. She not only believes that her father is the beat out doctor there is in Manawaka, notwithstanding also the best doctor in the whole of Manitoba. With this being said, her father frequently travels out of townspeople for work. During one winter in Manawaka, Vanessas father became very ill and had developed pneumonia.Almost immediately, in days after, he unfortunately passed off due to being unable to recover from the illness. In the days sideline her fathers death, Vanessa continues to fight back feelings of regret that she could possess somehow been closer to her father and conversed with him more, I took the letter and picture outback(a) and burned them. That was all I could do for him. Now that we might agree talked together, it was many years too late. Perhaps it would not have been manageable anyway.I did not know (Laurence 107) Hence, Vanessa never got the closure she has wanted with her father and this prevents her from fully stretchiness happiness. Although Vanessa has suffered the tremendous loss of her father, the pain and struggle of her life did not end there. She continues to endure obstacles whi le growing up, as she faces the dominance of her Grandfather Connor. Throughout the novel, Grandfather Connor is shown as someone of a high power who wanted things to go his way.He has a strong character and will, which gives him authority and as a result, overpowering almost all the members in Vanessas family. In one of Vanessas first creative stories, she realizes that her writing bears no relation to the life around her, but instead resembles her Grandfather Connor. She realizes that her Pillars of the Nation about pioneer life whitethorn well incorporate her Grandfather Connor, who is a real pioneer. She is troubled by the connection of the hateful old man she feared and fought with being apart of her creative writing so much so that she decides to set it aside.Only then does she see how similar she is to Grandfather Connor and how she will never be free of his control, I had not thought it would hurt me to see it in other hands, but it did. I wanted to tell them to trim their h edges, to repaint the window frames, to expect heed to repairs. I had feared and fought the old man, yet he proclaimed himself in my veins (Laurence 191) Thus, Vanessa continues to be trapped in the dominance of her Grandfather, and continually feels distressed and helpless.Ultimately, the theme of entrapment is evident in the book. One of the obvious ways in which readers see this idea clearly is in the character of Vanessa Macleod, the protagonist. The death of her father and the dominance of her Grandfather Connor prevent Vanessa from fully reaching happiness. As a result, she often struggles with feelings of regret and sorrow. All in all, the female characters in the book can be seen as distressed and helpless, for Vanessa was a perfect example of this.