les Acadiens

Dans son poeme Evangeline, Longfellow montre l'importance de la communaute pour les Acadiens, "neither locks they had to their doors, nor bars to their windows; but their dwellings were open as day and the hearts of their owners" (3). Cette valeur de la communaute rassemble a celle des quebecoises. On voit le danger imminent des anglais, "four days now are passed since the English ships at their anchors ride in the Gasperque's mouth, with their cannon pointed against us" (9). Mais on voit aussi le sentiment anti-anglais, "down with the tyrants of England! We never have sworn them allegiance!" (17). Longfellow montre l'espoir et le soutien communautaire quand il decrit les acadiens sur la cote, "rose no smoke from the roofs and gleamed no lights from the windows. But on the shores meanwhile the evening fires had been kindled" (22). Ici, tous les gens se deplaceaient pour attentdre l'arrivee des gens sur la mer. L'importance du fierte et d'independance est vraiment clair aussi; apres la defaite des acadiens par les anglais Longfellow a decrit le pere d'Evangeline, "gone was the glow from his cheek, and the fire from his eye and his footstep heavier seemed with the weight of the weary heart in his bosom" (21). Cettte partie du poeme termine avec le sens de la defaite, "we shall behold no more our homes in the village of Grand-Pre!" (23); les acadiens sont maintenant deplaces.