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My Attitudes towards Piquette’s Change The short story The Loons creates a half-bred girl by the name of Piqurtte Tonnerre. She grows up under harsh circumstances in a white-dominated society. The story is told by another girl, Vanessa. She is Piquette’s classmates. But she just knows that Piquette is the daughter of Lazarus, who has tuberculosis. Piquette’s sickness is almost the only thing Vanessa know about her. Because her father is the doctor who has looked after Piquette. Piquette was invited to spend the summer holiday with the doctor’s family in the Diamond Lake for the sake of her health. Several years later, Vanessa happens to meet Piquette in a café and she tells Vanessa that she is going to marry a white man, and four years later when Vanessa comes home on her holiday,she learns that Piquette is burnt to death together with her two children. In the short novel, Piquette has changed herself a lot in order to fit in the main current of the society. As we know, Piquette was an Metis which is an ancient aboriginal nation. She lives a life with discrimination. By the end of 19th century, the people fought against the invasion of the federal government protect their living environment and the sovereignty of their territory, but they failed. The white culture became the main current of the society. Of course they would live a life of shame and humiliation. Piquette Tonnerre was French half-breeds. As a Metis girl, she was not able to own a happy life and receive a good education as her peers. What’s more, she suffered tuberculosis. The miserable life kept her uncured, and always be absent from school. The social background contributes a lot to her character. Those prejudices made Piquette become a cold and unsociable girl. When the writer was spending her peculiar summer with Piquette, the girl seemed to have little to say and was not very friendly to the writer. The writer describe her, “She was sitting on the swing her lame leg held stiffly out, and her other