The Tin Flute Analysis

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The Tin Flute Analysis
The Tin Flute is a novel by Gabrielle Roy and was written in Quebec in World War 2 in 1945. This novel is about a girl named Florentine and how she becomes to be a mature young woman by realizing that a person’s imprison did not tell her how that person really feels and think; This novel also shows the effect of poverty and how it affects people and their family. The narrator speaks from an omniscient point of view, but is mostly from the perspective of Florentine.
Florentine is a 19 years old girl female that works at a fast food restaurant called Five and Ten; she works really hard and long in order to help support her family. While in the restaurant she has seen a lot of different type of people but there is one person with a different imprison from everyone else, “He seemed elegant […] Even much superior to the youths she met in neighbourhood café” (Roy 6). The impression that the man, named Jean Levesque, gives makes Florentine very attracted to him. As a result of his impression he seems like a well-manner, well-kept and caring man to Florentine. The significant of this is that he is nothing like what he seems like to Florentine. Jean is a selfish man that takes social status and class seriously, he thinks only of getting into a higher class. The irony of Florentine thinking she will be together with Jean is significant to the theme of imprison because it shows how different Florentine’s thoughts, on who Jean is, is different from who Jean really is. When Jean and Florentine first met they were attracted to each other, without either of them saying anything. Now Jan has come into the restaurant which makes him nervous because he does not know if he should talk to her or not. While Jean was sittin...

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... house, he insults her by comparing her to poverty and then describing poverty as “that implacable smell of poor clothing, the poverty you could recognize with your eyes shut” (208).Jean, who was raised in an orphanage then adopted by a woman, speaks of poverty as something that should not exits, but then links poverty with the life of the Lacasse family. Jean thinks that the Lacasse poverty is so bad that anyone can see it and know how poor they are.
This novel shows the significant of not using a person’s impression to judge who they are because a person imprisons can most of the time be false. Furthermore, the novel also shows the symbol of poverty and what it represents to the Lacasse. The Lacasse is living a hard and difficult life because of how poor they are and Florentine has learned the hard way that she should not trust someone base off their imprison.

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