Craig Davidson's Cataract City

It has been said many times that Canada is a place where every culture is accepted.

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Canadians are defined by the culture originating from their place of birth. It has been shown that we become attached to our native country and that factors such as ... things that surround us during that period of time have the biggest impact on the person. Evidence of this can be found in the novel Cataract City by Craig Davidson, Barometer Rising by Hugh MacLennan, and through history itself.

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Firstly, evidence can be found in Cataract City by Craig Davidson, a modern novel that tells the story of two boys, Duncan and Owen, on their lasting friendship in Cataract City, also known as Toronto. The small town is comprised

“a fringe town that requires its inhabitants to also exist at the fringes of humanity—making a living or stealing a living, saving a life or extinguishing it”. (Vatiliotou, 1) With these thoughts in mind, Owe asks, “who are any of us really? Sometimes what we are, or who, or—it’s just a question of circumstance you know? How far would you go? How much does it mean to you? How much do you need it?”. (Davidson 318) This further proves that the thoughts running through the boys minds are results of the current situation they are

Paragraph 3 : Fictional novels like Cataract City and Barometer Rising, are stories that have been made up, but they still provide real information about a region’s time period and we can easily relate the events to today’s world. Firstly, it has been shown that your city of birth and the people that surround you, are what define a person. This statement has a very strong message and most people would agree that it is true. For someone to say that it isin’t true would need to…

Statistics Canada shows that one in three Canadians end up leaving the country within 20 years of arrival. There are many different reasons why some Canadians decide to move to another country.

An argument that can be brought that their are thousands of people every year, that decide to leave their country and immigrate into Canada. While this is true, moving to a different location does not mean that you are completely abandoning the attachments that you previously had to your country. Many people leave their homes and countries because they don’t have a choice. They make the difficult decision to leave for reasons such as war, persecution, natural disasters, poverty and many