Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow: Difference between revisions

Written in the first person, the novel deals with themes of alienation, post-colonialism and how people survive mentally in societies they find inimical.

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* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Smilla Jaspersen has a history of winning against people much bigger and stronger than her. She stabs a man in the neck with a screwdriver when her tries to kidnap her, and topples a shelf onto a person she thinks is following her in the filing room of an office building. She also forces her stepmother to listen to her demands by pinching her in the crotch and bending her pinky finger all the way back. Apparently she's been this way all her life. She beat up a racist school bully much larger than her by finding out where he lived and ambushing him early in the morning, sending him to the hospital. When her father, a noted surgeon, tried to grab her and drag her home after she ran away at the age of twelve, she cut him with a scalpel she stole from the hospital she escaped from. When she is trapped on a ship with the vaguely psychopathic character Jakkelsen, she makes a weapon from a towel and a ball bearing, and injures him badly enough that he needs medical attention. However, she is always described as a petite and delicate woman. She is the narrator, by the way.

* [[Race Lift]]: In the movie, Smilla is played by Julia Ormond, who definitely isn't Greenlandic.

* [[Waif Fu]]: Smilla is not what she seems.

 

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