Nevertheless, this novel is more than a story of broken dreams. He goes on to tell the story of the massacres of the native North American population. The narrator describes the lives of explorers and voyageurs who failed to find Eldorado, and depicts the pioneers as ordinary people who never reached the Promised Land. Jacques Poulin’s novel Volkswagen Blues could be seen as a chronicle of these immigrants’ lost dreams. Europeans first arrived in search of a route to Asia, and later came in hopes of finding freedom and prosperity.
North American history was built by waves of immigration, first over the Bering Strait from Asia, and later from Europe across the Atlantic Ocean. Jack finds self-reconciliation by accepting his connection to others through contact with these other cultures and languages. The narrator uses a mixture of languages throughout the novel to emphasize these different cultures and eras, and to call attention to the importance of language to human existence and society. Throughout the trip, Jack encounters figures from the many different cultural backgrounds and periods that were important in the creation of today’s multicultural and plurilingual North America. Lawrence and the Mississippi, and finally west along the pioneers’ Oregon Trail to San Francisco. Jacques Poulin’s novel Volkswagen Blues traces the author Jack Waterman’s journey of self-discovery from Jacques Cartier’s landing point in Gaspé, south down the voyageurs’ route via the St. The following manuscript was originally prepared for FREN*3200 Quebec Novel, and later translated from the original French under the supervision of Professor Stéphanie Nutting, French Studies, School of Languages and Literatures, College of Arts. O元558908W Page_number_confidence 97.32 Pages 300 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201016173551 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 511 Scandate 20201014084045 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9782890371965 Tts_version 4.Volkswagen Blues: Rebirth through communication Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 13:02:14 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1972215 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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