What is Prairie Literature?

In order to successfully write prairie literature, one must incorporate landscape into their story. David Arnason’s “The Ogress” and Vanderhaeghe’s “Fraud” are quite similar in their use of landscape but differ slightly on some regards. To bring landscape into their stories, they used three main ideas. They had their antagonists struggle to create a sense of identity and become rooted in a home, through the use of prairie based imagery, and through the conquest of territory along with the hardships of prairie life today.
In agreement with Mandel, I state, the reason the prairies have such trouble creating an identity and getting rooted into a home is because everyone who lives here, had a forefather that migrated here only a handful of generations ago. Everyone who migrated here also brought their own culture and identity with them because they came from quite a few different countries. This difference in culture and beliefs really makes it difficult for the prairies...