1. 小组成员： 杨星月 邓敏 林珊珊 小组成员： 杨星月 邓敏 林珊珊

2. Outline  Part 1:Piquette and her family  Part 2:Piquette and Vanessa’s family  Part 3:Piquette

3. In the short story "The Loons", Margaret Laurence writes the story of Piquette Tonnerre. A half-Indian girl who grows up under harsh circumstances in a society that suppresses half-breeds. Piquette Tonnerre accumulates the social disadvantages of poverty, illness, ethnic discrimination and being female.

4. Introduction  They were French halfbreeds( 混血儿 ). Different from the white people, they had their own language, and lived a totally unfair life. 1 The Tonnerres  If men didn’t work on odd jobs or as section hands on the C.P.R. the whole family will live on relief.  Their children have no their own childhoods. When they were still young, they were forced to work for the family. No beautiful cloth, no higher education.

5. The Tonnerres are ever suposed to get out of their shanty town where they are always being put down by others. People are consistantly putting the family down, making false assumptions about them.These hardships drive them into a dark hole of alcoholism and poverty. "Sometimes old Jules or his son Lazarus would get in a Saturday night brawl, and we would hit at whoever was nearest or howl drunkenly among the offended shoppers of main street," Vanessa narrates.

6. The effect of the ignorance and hatred suffered by the Tonnerres totally shape their lives. Piquette's mother is driven off by it, leaving Piquette to do all the cooking and cleaning for the family. "The mother's not there...... can't say I blame her. Piquette cooks for them, and she says Lazarus would never do anything for himself as long as she's there." Her harsh life teaches her to be harsh towards others.

7. Vanessa The grandmother The mother The father Piquette Indifferent not welcoming Unfriendly Friendly, sympathy I'll bet anything she has nits in her hair. Ewen, if that halfbreed youngster comes along to the Diamond Lake, I'm not going. Your dad was the only person in Manawaka that ever done everything good to me. When she saw me approaching,her hand squashed flat the sand castle she had been building,and looked at me,without speaking.

8. The changes of Vanessa ’ s feeling for Piquette from the very beginning to the end of the story (At school, the days at Diamond Lake, their meeting four years later, the time she heard of Piquette ’ s death from her mother and she came to the lake again ) indifferent  friendly / curious /mysterious  tiresome / disliking  sympathetic  understanding

9. timeappearancebehaviourcharacter childhoo d (that summer) hoarse voice, grimy cotton dress clumsy limping walk, bore no expression, kept silent rude attitude “she remained as both a reproach and a mystery to me” 16years old (a café) lipstick,short hair,still not pretty,beautiful eyes,softand slender body animated, talk and laugh loudly, teeter a little defiant, seeking her own happiness the end of her life put on an awful weight,a real slattern, dress any old how never speak drunk most of the days helpless, hopless Piquette

10. Thank you!