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¶ … Tragedy at Finger Lakes
It was a gorgeous day for anybody, but especially for visitors from out of state to take a scenic boat trip on an exceptionally beautiful lake. There is no nicer time of year to see this area than in the autumn when the trees are ablaze with color against a blue, blue sky. The passengers on the boat were mostly elderly people from the Detroit area, retired autoworkers and their spouses, eager for a glimpse of rural beauty. Who would guess the day would end in tragedy with the boat capsized and 20 of them dead on the bottom of the lake? The captain was a well-known, respected member of the community -- a retired State police...
No one trustworthier could be found, according to local authorities who have known him for years. How could such a terrible thing happen?
Investigators say weight and stability may have been the cause of the boat capsizing. The captain reported that he saw a large wake coming toward the boat and turned sharply to avoid it. It was just after that the boat capsized. Survivors say that most of the people were concentrated towards the front of the boat so that the weight may have been unevenly distributed, causing the boat to be top-heavy. Governor Pataki has suggested that State weight standards should be raised from…
They moved to Fingerbone take care of the girls and reminded the girls every now and then about the lives that they had given up and left behind for the girls' well wishes. Both these characters are cleverly depicted so that they are kind and amusing at the same time, and their absence is not missed. The conversations between the aunts and the sisters were designed to be one
And "civilized" also means being corrupted by rampant economic temptations and in the process, ruining the land; and the narrator goes to great lengths to show that she "...wishes to not be human," which is a linking of "guilt and self-knowledge," according to Janice Fiamengo's essay (in The American Review of Canadian Studies). Essayist Fiamengo quotes Atwood from a 1972 interview (Surfacing was published in 1972) in which the author
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