“NEWFOUNDLANDESE, IF YOU PLEASE,”

The purpose of this essay is to provide the summary of the story, “Newfoundlandese, If You Please,” The author of this story is Diane Mooney. All through the story the author has attempted to throw lights on the linguistic diversity that exists in the Newfoundland.

In this story, the author has tried to depict the influence of Irish, British, English as well as French culture on Newfoundland. According to the author the deep impact of several European and American culture on Newfoundland, has created the distinct culture of the place, which can be considered as a fusion of various culture

 According to the description of Diane Mooney, different parts of Newfoundland, has been impacted by different European American as well as Russian culture, depending on the culture as well as the language of majority of the migrated people in that particular area. For instance, the language which originated from East coast of Newfoundland bears the traces of Irish culture as primarily, this place was crowded by Irish people. The central Newfoundland, got inspired by French culture after the advent of migrants from France.

In the conclusion, it can be said, though diverse shades of European as well as American culture has mingled in Newfoundland, migrants of the land share ‘generic identity’ like the society in Canada, that supports equality among diversity. Again traces of ‘Egalitarian’ society can also be observed in the social structure of Newfoundland. The radical difference of the daily lives of people of Russia as well as Canada is prominent in Newfoundland. Hence Juxtaposition of two different societies is vivid in this land though migrants share ‘Equal Share of Miseries”.

THE WAYS OF MEETING OPPRESSION

This story is written by Martin Luther King Jr., Being popular as a ‘protest’ genre writer Martin Luther King Jr. has depicted several characteristics through which oppressed people combat the oppression faced by them.

In this story Martin Luther King Jr. has looked at the subject of oppression and the people who face oppression in an sarcastic way. At the starting of the story he described people fighting spirit to combat oppression, further he revealed that, most of the oppressed sections of the society, like dark Americans, attempt to adjust them with oppression. This result into their submission to oppression. There are also people who opts the way of physical violence to fight with the oppressing situation, again, there are people, who give up in front of the unjust induced by oppression. Both the ways to fight with oppression are called “impractical” by Martin Luther King Jr. Rather Martin Luther King Jr supports the third way to combat oppression, which is “non-violent resistance”, which in turn, seeks “truths of two opposites”. In other words hMartin Luther King Jr has tried to establish the fact that, no one should adopt the path of violence, for the purpose of transforming a “wrong” into a “right” (King, 1958).

References

Brundage, D. Elements of Writing Style.

Sciascia, L. Its History and Presence in Christian Thought.

King, M. Luther Jr., 1958 “The Ways of Meeting Oppression”