Wing’s Chips
Mavis Gallant
Andrew Correa, Noelle O’Connell, Julia Velenosi, Brian Furlong
In a group of 4…
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Write what comes to mind when you think of
your father.
Come up with examples of discrimination in
our society.
Why do you think the narrators father agreed
to paint the sign for the Wing family?
What are examples of discrimination in
our society?
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Race
Culture
Class
Sex
Religion
What is Discrimination?
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treatment or consideration of, or making a
distinction in favour of or against, a person or
thing based on the group, class, or category
to which that person or thing belongs rather
than on individual merit
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"discrimination." © Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.. Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.. 10 May.
2012. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/discrimination>.
Themes
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Stereotyping
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Prejudice
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Social Status
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Cultural Differences
Narrator
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She is a strong, young girl
Does not understand or see eye-to-eye with her
father
Never found interest in piano as a child
She wants her father to fit into the community, and is
confronted about her fathers differences by people of
the town
“His failure weighed heavily on me, particularly after
someone, possibly Pauline, told me that he was
forever painting people who didn’t pay him a cent for
doing it.”(Gallant 208)
Narrators Father
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The father did not care or have any intention of
stopping his painting career just so he could fit in
with the rest of the other men in his new community.
He believed that you should accept you for who you
are
He did not care about what others thought of him
He loved being a painter and he still managed to
stay well grounded and level headed even when no
one believed in him, including his own daughter.
“No one took my father’s painting seriously as a daily
round of work, least of all i.”(Gallant 208)
Pauline
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She has no patience for anything
She cooked abominably, cleaned according to her
mood
Always asking questions about the family’s
background
Has a strong attitude
“‘Cette enfant ne fera jamais rien’, I once heard her
say in despair.”(Gallant 207) **explain what it means
Setting
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A three hundred year old town in the St.
Lawrence Valley, Quebec
Running through the center of the town was
a narrow river, divided the French and the
English
Very traditional and religious
What is the moral of the story?
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Do not judge people based on their
occupations
Everybody is just as capable of doing
something as the next person
Making Connections
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What do you think the narrator will think of
her father when she becomes an adult and
has a job of her own?
Work Cited
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