Review: Seems to completely miss the point of Atwood's book
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 5, 2014
A really short "Cliff-Notes-Esque" essay on Margaret Atwood's book, "Surfacing" which dealt with the issues of national and gendered identity, anticipated rising concerns about conservation and preservation and the emergence of Canadian nationalism. The book is complex in the layering of the characters and subject matter with separation being forefront.Margaret Atwood's book has been compared to the likes of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, and to Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, and rightfully so. A fair comparison of this essay, Stopping the World, to Atwood's book would be like an essay on Herman Melville's Moby Dick with the contents of said essay stating that Moby Dick is about about a man and a fish. While true at a elementary level, would completely miss the point and that is my conclusion with this essay. it seems to completely miss the point of Atwood's message.However I must give merit for an imaginative piece that does try to make apple juice out of oranges.