The Mysterious Author of “The Return”: Alistair Macleod

As the short story "Return" was discovered just a few months ago, the author is not yet known; until now, I do not know. This article will definitely prove that "return" was written by the author Alistair Macleod. The role of mother in "return" is similar to the role of women in other stories written by McLeod. The story tense is the same as most of the story written by MacLeod. "Return" is like a family-based story, like many of Macroad's stories.

In the short story "Boat" written by Canadian author Alistair McLeod, the main story focuses on the concepts of self-fulfillment and the factors that influence the achievement of the goal. The foundation of this story is the limit of the family's pursuit of self-realization among individuals and opportunities to prevent them from achieving this goal. The hero, the son are confronted with internal conflict when choosing what the desire of his life actually becomes. The two highly influential people who influenced his decision included a very strong mother and his father in her beliefs.

When comparing works of the same writer especially on the same media, you can understand the style, features, prejudice and even the background of the writer. Alistair MacLeod proposes many similarities in his short story, including his love to eastern Canada, which can be based on his career at the family farm Breton. If there are many comparable work by the same author, it is easier to make more intelligent criticism about the author's work. Reading "Return" and "Golden Golden Gifts" will allow us to analyze "gift of lost salt blood" more fairly and critically than when there is no prior knowledge of Alistair McLeod's other achievements I can do it.