《The loons》Piquette融入态度三阶段分析

The Extremely Communication Orientation of Piquette
——From a Co-cultural Communication Aspect In the past centuries, Japanese have kept searching for the origin of their ancestors, which can be put down to the urgency of belongingness that plunged them into a embarrassingly rootless condition for years. In this respect, with a clear sense of origin, Piquette is luckier than Japanese. However, things turn opposite otherwise. As a child who owns an apple is meanwhile worried about losing it, Piquette and her Tonnerre background suffer from keeping their group from fading away.
According to Orbe Mark’s Co-cultural Theory, Piquette’s life can be divided into three periods, the non-assertive separation, the non-assertive assimilation, and the aggressive separation.
As a half-breed youngster, little Piquette shuts herself off the outside world to avoid interference. She is too young to resort to a wiser manner but what Orbe called the non-assertive separation. What she could do is to deliberately keep the distance between herself and the mainstream group to get out of communication as well as keeping the communication disorders. What’s more, the attitudes of the mainstream group actually contribute to the inclination of forming the relationship. When Vanessa and Piquette sat on the sand beside the Diamond Lake , and Vanessa told her that their family go there every summer. Piquette was definitely hurt but meanwhile she pretended to be indifferent and said “so what?” And in the following days, Vanessa often felt difficult to get on with Piquette. She never realize that the inherent superiority complex actually prevent her to get closer to Piquette. Moreover, it could not easily overcome even if they were little children who seldom get involved in some rigid issues related to race or resistance.
But several years later, Piquette changed totally when Vanessa came across her. That’s what Orbe called the non-assertive assimilation. From the enthusiasm living style that totally differ from that of her childhood, Piquette tried hard to fit in the mainstream group by emphasizing similarities as well as avoiding differences. She acted to be friendly and easygoing to her current circle and even flung out hard words
to her previous fellows by all means. All these showed that Piquette was eager to gain a sense of recognition from the mainstream group at any cost including those she has ever hatred of. And from the uncomfortable reaction of Vanessa, we can figure out that Piquette’s attempting to enter the upper society was doomed to be a dead failure.
The revengeful aftermath, which was called the aggressive separation was fierce and ultimately led Piquette to a tragic ending. After the failure of engaging in the upper society, Piquette returned to her birth place with two children. She “never spoke to others”, and lived away from to keep her mere remaining dignity. At that time, she didn’t belong to any group. She was an ridiculous example that the previous group to laughing at and the latter group to looking down upon. Therefore, the disappointment superficially resulted in her abomination towards the whole world. She “put on an awful lot of weight, and she looked a mess”. And her death is undoubtedly an extreme way to protest to the mainstream society.
Piquette’s tragedy may be put down to the members of the mainstream society. But I think the inferiority of herself is the main reason. Whether the indifference of her childhood or the overwhelming endeavor of her adulthood was an extremely wrong attitude. Her inferiority kept her from confidentially communicate with others, also smoothly fitting in the group. To be open-minded and sincere can be well accepted by the society definitely.。