Introduction To Senior Literature- Major Essay
Semester 1

1059 words

Just as Newfoundlanders have to confront the sea, survive it, so people have to face life's traumas and find the will to go on.
To what extent is Proulx saying people must ‘weather the storms' of life and reconcile the past with the future?

To face life's storms is not to reconcile the past with the future, meaning to be happy with it, but to confront the past, conquer it, and then accept it. Acceptance in this instance, meaning to acknowledge the past, and acknowledge that it cannot be changed. It does not need to be understood, simply recognised as something that has happened. In acceptance, feelings of anger, regret and guilt are dissipated. These are the steps that are to be taken in order to cope, "weather the storms" of life and move forward. All of the characters in the novel have to cope with their lives, some of which are more difficult than others.

Quoyle had many traumatic events in his......

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