Totem

Based on the theme of this story I think that the identity of first nations identity is looked down upon as less. For years Canada treated the aboriginals as animals and less than people. And all though things have changed including laws I still believe there is a stigma around aboriginal peoples. Often stereotypes are the ones that are less educated on the history and are too stubborn to accept that things aren’t the way they used to be. This is why first nations people struggle.

Fear Photo

This picture represents illness and fear of losing a loved one. I chose this picture because it feels like every time I go into a hospital to visit a loved one, I lose them. I am scared of terminal illness taking over and not being able to over come it. I am scared for them to feel pain before death. I am scared of missing them and the thought that I will never be able to speak to them again or hug them again.

Capital Punishment within the short story, ‘Two Fisherman’

Capital Punishment

This is a photo taken before the hanging of Kreis Kaplitz. He was hung on January 2nd in 1946 for killing 5 American airmen in Landsberg, Germany.

 

Capital punishment also known as death penalty is the legally authorized killing of someone as punishment for a crime. In pre confederation Canada, many criminal offences were punishable by death until the last two men where hung in 1962.

If the story Two Fisher Men took place in Canada, it probably would have been in the 1920’s. I think this because of how the hanging was described, in the 1950’s death penalty’s would happen in jails in front of small groups involved in the case. In the story two fishermen the hanging is shown to the whole town, and I understand why they eventually made hangings private events after reading this story because of the way the public could react. Another reason why I think this happened I the 1920’s is because it didn’t seem like there was much of an investigation into the details of this case. We have no idea if Thomas’ wife actually got raped or if that is just his side of the story.

 

Personally I do not think Thomas Delaney should have been hung because as far as we know he was just defending his wife. I personally don’t support capital punishment so I wouldn’t support the idea of killing someone for any reason but we don’t even know if he killed intentionally, or if it was an accident, and I don’t understand how anyone could execute a person when they don’t have all the facts first. Even if it wasn’t an accident Thomas Delaney was trying to save his wife from a rapist! Jail is one thing but hanging someone who was protecting their is another