Geography And Disability In The Shipping News

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Landed Bodies: Geography and Disability in The Shipping News is an analytical essay written by Jennifer Denise Ryan. The Shipping News, written by Annie Proulx, is a novel about a man named Quoyle, who is rejected by most people in his community. However, as he moves to the Newfoundland, Quoyle is acknowledged by people and thus, able to discover his true identity. In her essay, Ryan discusses how the geography of two places, Mockingburg and the Newfoundland, portrayed Quoyle’s characteristics in totally different way. Ryan states that the author, Annie Proulx, uses two totally different cities to characterize Quoyle’s personality traits.
In the town, Mockingburg, Quoyle’s physical feature was considered to be very abnormal, grotesque, and