• 1. What issue is the narrator raising?

2. What worries the narrator with regard to the younger generation?

3. What does the narrator want to see written down?

4. What parts of the text are most difficult to understand? Why?

--personal narrative or life narrative

Question #1:

• Loss of ‘tradition’ in the Inuit community in Labrador • Loss of respect and appreciation for the culture • Lack of community which ‘settler culture’ or westernization has created • Blurring of culture—a ‘loss?’ of local culture or indigenous culture through the idea of

‘internationalism’ • Generational conflict—older generations have a difficult time adapting • Resources/decreased hunting

2. Question #2:

• The narrator fears a loss of identity – that younger generation will lose their tradition • --ideas about the ‘individual’ versus the ‘collective’ – individualism =’s a more ‘western’

persepctive • --we see in the narrative that the speaker has himself been influenced by ‘Christianity’ – identity

is complex • --customs are being eroded to some extent

3. Question #3

• The narrator wants the “changes” to be written down/ recorded • Past experience to be acknowledged

o --tradition recorded in writing o -writing as a kind of adaption o –The narrator thinks that the old stories have been lost; he wants to preserve them o --change has not been good o --desire to see stories ‘count’

4. Difficulties:

Authentic?

• Our subject position may differ from the narrators: e.g., if we are outsiders, it will be hard for us to understand the narrative (different experiences; different ways of storytelling)