Symbolism
This object causes external conflict between the mother and daughter.
What is the family drawing?
This theme involves understanding and valuing who you truly are.
What is self-acceptance or identity?
This character worries about her daughter losing touch with her cultural roots.
Who is the mother?
This type of family is drawn by the little girl initially.
What is the light-skinned, blonde-haired family?
This device is used to give an object a meaning that is usually beyond their literary meaning.
What is symbolism?
The difference between the daughter's appearance and the blond family in the picture symbolizes this struggle.
What is the struggle to fit in and belong?
This process includes adopting a dominant culture of a new and different country.
What is assimilation?
This character should've known who the family was from the new picture.
Who is the teacher?
The mother feels this way when she sees her daughter's picture.
What is feeling sad and angry?
This type of conflict occurs when a character struggles against social expectations.
What is person vs. society?
The image of a dark, cold winter.
What is the mother's mood and emotions?
This feeling affects the mother as she reflects on her new life in Canada.
What is loneliness or alienation?
Who is the little girl?
Which two families appear in the little girl's new drawing?
Who are the light-skinned and her own family?
The author's use of the mother's thoughts and feelings helps readers understand her perspective. This is an example of.......
What is characterization?
The contrast between the two families in the drawing symbolizes this larger issue in Canadian society.
What is cultural inequality?
This theme is illustrated when the daughter's family is made to seem different from the "ideal" white family, highlighting the unfair treatment based on race and culture.
What is discrimination?
This issue causes tension between the mother and daughter after the drawing is discussed.
What is the difference between the family shown in the picture and their own cultural identity?
The ending challenges the idea that one cultural group should be considered more normal or important than another.
What is the acceptance and representation of different cultural identities?
The daughter's decision to include her own family in the drawing symbolizes this change in how she represents different identities.
What is the recognition and acceptance of one's cultural identity?
This theme is shown when the daughter begins to recognize that society may view her family as different from the idealized family she sees in her school materials at the young age she is.
The daughter asks this to her teacher when she is finished with her new picture.
What is asking, "Do you like it?"