The Diviners: How Does Morags Past Influence Piques Life

The Diviners: How does Morag's Past Influence Pique's Life

Pique is the inheritor of French-Indian and Scottish-Canadian roots. She is

raised her mother in Canada and England. However, her growth is affected by

Morag's life style and Morag's past life. There are three events in Morag's past

that affects Pique's life.

Morag moves away from Christie when she goes to college and she rarely

comes back to Manawake, "Going to Winnipeg this fall. To college. And I'm never

coming back."

She does not seem care for her stepparents. In certain respects the

parent-child relationship between Morag and Pique resembles the one between

Christie, the Scavenger,

"You've never had somebody tell you mother was crazy between

she lived out her alone and wrote dirty books and had kooky people

coming out from the city to visit?" (P.446)

And both, in different ways, attempt to deny their parents. At one point,

Pique, having run away from home, ends up in a mental hospital in Toronto after

"a bad trip",

"Can't you see I despair you? Can't you see I want you

to go away? You aren't my mother. I haven't got a mother." (P.111)

Furthermore, Morag does not get married with Jules. When her husband is

Brooke Skelton, she has a sexual relationship with Jules and gets pregnant.

Later, Pique is aware that Jules is her father. Pique has an idea about why she

is different from the others because a typical family should have a mother and a

father, but she comes from a single parent family. When Pique first meets her

father she is at about five years old. Jules sings a song to Pique which she

finds fascinating and meaningful to her. Pique, at 18, is more mature than her

mother at the same age. She loves her father very much and wants to live with

him, however, Morag does not approve that Pique should stay with Jules,

"Why did you have me?"

"For your own satisfaction, yes. You never thought of him or of me."

We are aware that Pique needs care and love from both of her parents

because Morag cannot fulfill Pique's desire. She runs away in search of what she

thinks she is missing all along, which she, herself is not sure what it is.

Later on, she dates Dan McRaith, who is a husband of Bridie. They have a

abnormal friendship between them. As we know Dan Scranton and Gord are

boyfriends of Pique. It is coincidental with Morag's boyfriend first name is

also Dan. These two individuals occurs in Morag and Pique's life as their names

are the same.