Introduction The ways of how different writers analyze various themes in their literary works are one of the most captivating and educative for many people. It is not difficult to find a reliable literary source and enjoy the writing style offered by a person from a particular epoch. Each writer has its own opinion and vision of the situation. And among a variety of topics and ideas for writing, the issues of gender and race are considered to be one of the most frequently discussed. The relationship between race and gender factors is the main theme of the works by such authors like Lee Maracle, Nadine Gordimer, and Margaret Laurence. Maracle’s Ravensong is a story of who a number of Natives were treated by Whites in the late 1950s; it is not about some general facts and events, it is a lesson that some Natives got to define their identity and to fight the ideas of assimilation which were inherent to that period of time. In her turn, Gordimer introduced her City Lovers , the story about the relations between a man and a woman of different races, cultures, and society. And the work by Laurence, The Loons , shows the reader a story of a half-breed Indian girl compared to a loon whose life was dramatically changed by the invasion of white people. All the three stories are about the relations between the people from different cultures. In spite of their varieties and interests, the characters find the reasons to meet and develop the relations which are hard for society to understand. Though not all stories are easier to read quickly, the ideas offered by the writers seem to be a unique contribution to the world of literature and a powerful attempt to propose a solution to constant inequalities which exist today. Maracle, Laurence, and Gordimer present powerful pieces of literary work which demonstrate how race and gender differences may predetermined the relations between different people: The Loons is about the half-breed Indian girl’s desire to make a new life, City Lovers is about the offences based on gender differences, and Ravensong is about the necessity to define person’s identity. Ravensong as Maracle’s attempt to demonstrate challenges in the 1950s Writing about human desire to become free is probably one of the most challenging tasks for many writers. It is obligatory to describe the conditions under which people had to live, to evaluate the possibilities of different people, and to understand whether the idea of freedom is worth recognition. Maracle is the author who does not want to choose some easy ways to discover the truth; she is a fighter just like some characters of her story. Stacey is the main character of the novel who finds it possible “to disobey a direct command from him [Johnson] without raising any kind of fuss about it” (Maracle 69). The author made her powerful enough to define that the life is not fair and the relations between people could not be developed the same way. Still, the character is not able to cope with all challenges and help other people who are in need to take the same actions. At the beginning of the novel, a song is introduced to the reader. This song “echoed the rolling motion of earth’s centre, filtering itself through the last layer to reach outward to earth’s shoreline above the deep” (Maracle 9). On the one hand, such description of the events may seem to be too general as on