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Significance of Landscaping in Thomas King’s Stories

Imagery is a powerful literary device used by writers when presenting their ideas in a story. It allows them to create an image of a scenario, object, image, or scene using words that appeal to human senses and connect better with the story. This paper will focus on the significance of landscaping and its use in Thomas King's books "Borders" and "A Coyote Columbus Story," along with the message it conveys. They explain vividly where the events in the story take place and set the scene for the story.

In the story Borders, King conveys the pride and strong sense of identity shown by the narrator's mother and her daughter Laetitia. The mother is proud of her town, Blackfoot, and her nation, Canada. At the beginning of the story, Laeticia leaves for America and requests her family to visit her in America. She gives them directions and essential landmarks to guide them on the journey to her new residence. She tells them about a water tower on the American side, and the mother quickly reminds them that there are giant water towers on the Canadian side. "Over the next rise. It's the first thing you see." "We got a water tower on the reserve," my mother said. "There's a big one in Lethbridge, too. "(King, 132). During the family's visit to Lake Salt City, Laetitia took her family out to explore the city. King uses different landscapes to describe the experience. They visited the temple and a couple of large malls. The mother reminded them that the malls were not as large as the ones in the Canadian city of Edmonton. King uses this architectural landscape to remind the user about the mother's pride for her country. The narrator's mother is proud of her Blackfoot heritage, and she is very keen on teaching her children this pride. During the night when she spent the night in the car with the narrator, she takes the chance to teach the narrator the lessons she learned from her grandmother. The grandmother would take them out to prairies (enormous stretches of flat grassland) and tell them stories about the stars. The mother also describes the shape of stars to the narrator; this gives readers something they can relate to, thus bettering the message. ""Every one of those stars has a story. You see that bunch of stars over there that look like a fish?" (King, 142). The author uses Canada's physical landscape to vividly describe the scene and pass this message better to the reader. Laetitia, the narrator's sister, is a proud woman and has a strong sense of identity like her mother. She is determined to make her own and create her own stories. She wants to travel and see the world even when her mother disagrees with that decision. When her family had gone to bid her goodbye at the border, her mother remarked in Blackfoot that she can still see the mountain in her home town and she replied in English and told her that there are several mountains in Salt Lake. She wants to create her own identity but not follow her mother's. "You can still see the mountain from here," my mother told Laetitia in Blackfoot. "Lots of mountains in Salt Lake," Laetitia told her in English (King, 133).

In the Coyote Columbus story, one of the main messages King is passing in the story is the history of America from a Native American perspective. He is demystifying the European's account of the discovery of America and the Native Indians by Christopher Columbus. He uses landscaping to set the stage for his story. Christopher Columbus sailed across the blue ocean with three ships and landed on the American coast, and many people who were wearing funny clothes and carrying flags. This vividly describes the scene to the reader. King also used the Coyote Columbus story to pass a message about the exploitation of America and Native Americans by the Europeans. He describes them peeking under rocks, looking under caves, and looking all over the place. He uses the physical landscapes of caves and rocks to show how the Europeans came and plundered the natural resources they found on the continent without regard to the Native Americans they found there. "But those Columbus people don't listen. They are too busy running around, peeking under rocks, looking in caves, sailing all over the place. Looking for China. Looking for stuff they can sell." (King, 124).