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Essay - The Legend Of the Sugar Girl

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This essay will be based on the concept of European colonization of instinctive North America and records the emotional destruction of an individual. It is the place that is facing continuous abuse which is leading them to add then people are destroyed. The essay will help in providing deep knowledge of colonisation and its significance on the people as it is leading them to get addicted to something. Also, it will focus on investigating the problems regarding addiction increased among the youth for finding the ways that can help them in overcoming the addiction because it is creating a problem in their life and middle-aged people are getting addicted as well which is not good for their development. This is a story that emphasises a girl that got addicted to sugar candies in order to overcome the abuse and oppression caused by the nuns.

Essay - The Legend Of the Sugar Girl

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LEGEND OF THE SUGAR GIRL1The essay analyses the concept of colonization of the Europeans on the native NorthAmerica and records an emotional destruction of an individual. The continuous abuse led toaddition then people are destroyed. The continuous oppression and mistreatment take them toaddiction so that they may find happiness through craving for addiction. The story of JosephBoyden has described the depressed lives of the oppressed people and records how they findhappiness through addiction (David and Derthick 2014). Here the sugar girl is a symbol of oppression and escape from reality. Primarily shegets abused by the nuns and therefore, chooses the way of addiction in sugar. She findssalvation in the candies (Stark 2013). Gradually she fails to stop herself and start new life butbecomes more addict to other substances. The mental oppression she endured since herchildhood, leads her to lose self-control, culture and fails to care her on child (Lobo, Talbotand Carlston 2016). For being unable to raise her son in middle life, she continues her cycleof abuse and passes it on to her child. The son again faces same fate as his mother.The story captures a deeper significance and takes back to the days of colonization.The Europeans invaded North America and took advantage of First Nations people and theirgoods captured the heart of the natives. The price of the materials that the Whites gatheredfrom the natives were cheap (Lobo, Talbot and Carlston 2016). By paying meagre moneythey seized control over the people and their land. Again they made the natives addicted tothe tasty, unhealthy food and their guns. It was a psychological control that gradually becamea cultural issue.Impose of white culture and religion was a method of ethnic colonization where thechildren where the Black children were taken to transform white. It was the culturaloppression where white nuns of the residential schools seize the Black culture even language.They punish for using indigenous dialect of showing any native gesture but reward with a
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