Surfacing

Setting

• Quebec, Canada
• Its the protaganist's goes home to her home
• in Canada to see her father.

Main Characters

• The protaganist/ author who's name is not given.
• David- who is a movie director and Anna's husband
• Anna- David's wife and protaganist's friend
• Joe- protaganist's boyfriend

Themes

• separation- a time when Quebec was fighting
• to become a free French nation
• feminism- the protagnists being a female
• she is able to express professional and private
• feminme characetristics

climax

• When the protaganist finds out that her
• father is missing.
• anger
• confussion
• pain

Summary of the novel

• Protaganist comes back to Quebec to
• learn about her childhood.
• Finds out that her father is missing.
• Tries to find clues to find her father.

Memorable quotes

• "Stupidity is the same thing as evil if you 
• judge by the results."
• "They will not let you have peace, they 
• don't want you to have anything they don't
• have themselves."

Background info

• author- Margaret Atwood
• Published- 1972
• Publication- McClellan and Stewart
• written in Canada
• put into the collection of "Power of Politics"

Margaret Atwood

• poet
• Born- 11/18/1939
• married- Jim Polk
• Won the Man Booker Prize

Work cited

• http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/924766-surfacing
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfacing_(novel)
• "Surfacing" by Margaret Atwood

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