2.The town dump was known as"the nuisance grounds",a phrase fraught with weird connotations, as though the effluvia of our lives was beneath contempt but at the same time was subtly threatening to the determined and sometimes hysterical propriety of our ways.(from paragraph 8) 3. Stultifying to the mind it certainly could be,and sometimes was,but not to the imagination. (from paragraph 13) 4.If our upsurge of so-called nationalism seems odd or irrelevant to outsiders,and even to some of our own people (What's all the fuss about?),they might try to understand that for many years we valued ourselves insufficiently,living as we did under the huge shadows of those two dominating figures,Uncle Sam and Britannia.(from paragraph 14) 5.When I saw the War Measures Act being invoked in 1970,I lost forever the vestigial remains of the naive wish-belief that repression could not happen here,or would not.(from paragraph 15) Questions for discussion: 1.Laurence's central idea is mainly expressed by way of description.Which part do you think most strongly conveys the flavor of her hometown?How would you describe the marrow of your hometown? 2.Find at least five figures of speech in this essay and discuss the impact of each. 3.Laurence finds a sense of home when she identifies with her hometown.What do you think is the true meaning of home? Writing Practice; Write an essay entitled "Where My World Began",showing your hometown as a microcosm of the nation,or of the world Further Reading Canadians:What Do They Want? Margaret Atwood! 1 Last month,during a poetry reading,I tried out a short prose poem called "How to Like Men."It began by suggesting that one start with the feet.Unfortunatedly,the 66 2. The town dump was known as “the nuisance grounds”, a phrase fraught with weird connotations, as though the effluvia of our lives was beneath contempt but at the same time was subtly threatening to the determined and sometimes hysterical propriety of our ways. (from paragraph 8) _____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ 3. Stultifying to the mind it certainly could be, and sometimes was, but not to the imagination. (from paragraph 13) _____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ 4. If our upsurge of so-called nationalism seems odd or irrelevant to outsiders, and even to some of our own people (What’s all the fuss about?), they might try to understand that for many years we valued ourselves insufficiently, living as we did under the huge shadows of those two dominating figures, Uncle Sam and Britannia. (from paragraph 14) _____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ 5. When I saw the War Measures Act being invoked in 1970, I lost forever the vestigial remains of the naïve wish-belief that repression could not happen here, or would not. (from paragraph 15) _____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ Questions for discussion： 1. Laurence’s central idea is mainly expressed by way of description. Which part do you think most strongly conveys the flavor of her hometown? How would you describe the marrow of your hometown? 2. Find at least five figures of speech in this essay and discuss the impact of each. 3. Laurence finds a sense of home when she identifies with her hometown. What do you think is the true meaning of home? Writing Practice; Write an essay entitled “Where My World Began”, showing your hometown as a microcosm of the nation, or of the world. Further Reading Canadians: What Do They Want? Margaret Atwood 1 1 Last month, during a poetry reading, I tried out a short prose poem called “How to Like Men.” It began by suggesting that one start with the feet. Unfortunatedly, the