“Goodbye, Snauq” by Lee Maracle. Study Questions
The following questions will help you study for the final exam. These are just basic questions which hopefully will lead you in-depth answers.
Page 203 – How does calling the Snauq the “Supermarket of the nation” connect to themes we have been studying throughout the course?
Page 204 – Locate the logos in the last paragraph. What is the author’s main point here?
Page 205 – What is the purpose of the Raven? How is the Raven an allegory? For what?
205 – What does the author mean by “find freedom in the context you inherit?” Does this line repeat throughout the essay? How many times?
205 – Describe the contrast between the longhouse and the institution. How is this technique effective?
205 – Explain the story about the envelope? Why is the color of the envelope and irony?
Page 206 – Can you find the parallelism? What about the tone of this page?
Why is the author telling us she is drunk?
Page 207 – Can you find the flashback on this page? Where else are they in the essay? What do they all have in common?
208 – Locate the other flashback on this page. Notice that they are all about ecology and the natural environment. Notice also that they are always contrasted with its destruction. This is the rhetorical technique of CONTRAST.
Page 209 – Why is Khatsalano important? What is he a symbol of?
209 – How are white people and / or white society portrayed on this page? Can you find any other mentions of white society in the essay?
Look for tone and diction on page 209. Do you notice anything?
Page 210 – explain how the author feels about the institution? Why does she feel this way? What is the institution a symbol of?
Page 211 – she is returning to the metaphor of the envelope.
Can you find the parallelism and another flashback?
Page 212 – what is in the envelope? How does it affect her?
Flashback on this page.
Page 213 – Contrast! How are the settlers described? Common words? What about ecology and nature? Or the lives of the First Nations peoples?
Is there a line that repeats on this page?
Look for quotations on this page.
Page 214 – the image of the longhouse repeats. Parallelism?
Page 214 – 125 – Ethos! She reveals that she does not know any of the exact dates. Do we care?
Page 215 – Flashback / Page 216 Flashback. How do they work? Why are they there?
Bottom of P216 – look for tone, pronouns (we) and audience.
P217 – rhetorical questions.
P218 – why is there “hope in irony?”
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