Matthew Xia

Compare Beyond the Snow Belt with The Shoemaker
According to the story and poem, we can see that there are many similarities between Beyond the Snow Belt and The Shoemaker, and both of the narrators use protagonist´ good condition to compare the people who are suffered at same time. And what about if we put the idea on war, how could they work?
Firstly, the poem Beyond the Snow Belt, which wrote by Mary Oliver, narrates that `two counties north the storm has taken lives. Two countries north, to us, is far away, ---` and she also told that ´so we forget with ease each far mortality.´ if we put her idea on war, it will become a country like Canada, which stay neutral forever. A evident support is wrote on her poem `I only say, except as we have loved, all news arrives as from a distant land.´ as the result, stay neutral, enjoy lives and welcome all the people who cannot live on their own land. From that point, I knew that Mary Oliver should be a Canadian.
On the other hand, Roch Carrier, who wrote The Shoemaker, has maintain that about the L´s Action catholique, which had burned alive thousands of women, men and children by the little boy who is the protagonist point of view. During the narrative, he maintains that `when the people of Hiroshima remember this earth, they will see again the bright explosion that wrenched their bodies from their souls.´ in addition, he also point out by the little boy´s point of view `I wish they could remember instead a little shoemaker with a clubfoot who, as they were sleeping, came and mended shoes worn out from having played too much on the earth covered with dandelions and daisies.´ well narrator wish the dead people can have better life after they died in the war, he use the shoemaker who died, but still live in the little boy´s heart to foil the sadness of the people killed by the atomic bomb.
On a personal, the short story is kind of similar as the poem as I maintained at beginning, both the short story and the poem are solicitous about the people who are dead and still suffering during the war time, and both of them want to give a hand to the poor innocent people in the war time. But, we can ignore the effort they made, as we know there are millions of people killed during wars, even who want to help, they have to pick a side, and limited power to protect or defense themselves. Both of the them has show their opinion, pick as an example, ‘ our children running on the mild white hills, this is the landscape that we understand,--- while maybe you will feel that is kind of selfish, but that the truth of the world, during war time, all of the countries´ first goal was for their own countries advantages.