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The short stories "A Distant Episode" and Blaise's "A Class of New Canadians" both shares certain similarities and dissimilarities. These two short stories, one being the adventure of a linguistic professor abroad and the other, the life of an English teacher in Montreal, Quebec share a strong connection. To follow, there will be a detailed and through look at the two characters' lives, they're psychological aspects – their state of mind, and how they intend to curb reality into a certain form of fantasy that would rather seem plausible to their own eyes and fulfill their needs and desires.

An obvious similarity between the linguistic professor and the English teacher is that of their occupation, both being linguists – living off language. The two characters share pretty much the same ethnical background, being from the Westernized part of the world and having lived in the same kind of society. The linguistic professor went on a trip within the Middle East – a completely......

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