Listening snow tower11/27/2022 ![]() I feel they should have just flashed back rather than confuse me at the beginning. There were some scenes at the beginning that didn't come into play until near the end and then they flashed back to them. STORY: There is a *huge* cast and I got really lost at first trying to learn who everyone was. There was *a lot* of talking and a lot of scenes repeated over and over. While there were moments that were romantic, overall, it wasn't terribly romantic.ģ. Pretty much every female character, most especially the female lead.Ģ. Things didn't go the way I thought they would.ġ. ![]() That was a hard role to play and he did outstanding.ģ. The male lead really did a phenomenal job in his role. Lots of long hair, pretty headpieces (some really freaking weird ones too), beautiful, draping clothes, stunning sets, intense martial arts, etc.Ģ. There was some serious tragedy and angst in here.ġ. This is not the type of romance where you know they're going to get together and live happily ever after once they overcome a few trials. ![]() Personally, I found it both ridiculous and interesting, but it worked, in a weird way. And *everyone* was in love with someone who was in love with someone else. Almost every plot thread stemmed from some sort of dysfunction. "But what choice did they have but to be involved, or be completely crushed?" said Beaton.Dysfunctional doesn't even begin to describe this story. And now they are tangled up economically in these industries that are polluting their land, and leaving them with higher rates of cancer. Beaton said when the companies first came in to the area, the First Nations people in the area weren't given much say. The moment coalesces the books themes of complicity and complicity and agency and power. They don't care how many of us they kill off. "At the cost of our lives - as long as they get their money. "Everything's ruined, our lives around our lands are ruined, our water, the air, everything," Harpe says. a Cree elder talking about the impacts the oil companies have had on their community. There's a scene late in the book when an increasingly tired Beaton watches this interview with Celina Harpe. Kholood Eid for NPR Beaton's new book follows her journey as she deals with her own sense of isolation, while having to put up with constant sexism and misogyny. Land that was previously occupied by someone else. It's a stark reminder of what the oil industry is doing to the land. There'll be a big beautiful sky juxtaposed with seemingly equally huge and (and just as imposing) machinery on the ground. Throughout Ducks, Beaton draws these huge landscapes. That took a lot of courage, Turner said, "given that a lot of these guys, if you wanted to be damning about it, were enabling some of the culture she ran into." Where other depictions at the time portrayed Fort McMurray as a lawless Wild West, Beaton's treats the workers with care and grace. And there are the people who populate the city and are simply putting their heads down and providing for their families, just trying to get by.Ĭhris Turner, author of the book The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands said the book avoids caricaturizing the town. And the book opens with Beaton talking us through how.īut Beaton depicts small moments of tenderness too, from people looking out for her in their own ways. ![]() This idea – that you have to leave home to make a life for yourself – ingrained itself into the culture of Cape Breton. So the island started sending its people out to wherever jobs were. For a while it was home to various industries – steel, coal, fishing. It's a beautiful place that's long been economically disadvantaged. The book starts over on the east coast, on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, where Beaton is from. "I lived in the camps, and that was hard. "I didn't have a good time there," said Beaton. Specifically the years she spent working at the oil sands of Fort McMurray, in Alberta, Canada. But while her comic is known for its funny and exuberant takes on historical figures, with Ducks, Beaton uses her talents to examine her own life. It's from Kate Beaton, author of the popular webcomic Hark! A Vagrant, as well as a number of children's books. The new book, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, is about the latter. ![]() And then there are jobs you take for the money. There are jobs you take because you might find them fulfilling, or they're a stepping stone to a career you see for yourself. ![]()
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