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The Marrow Thieves 
Themes
Dreams
Bone marrow, "recruiters" take the marrow in the indigenous people bones because they've lost the ability to dream and they think they can restore them by using their marrow.
Indigenous populations
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The schools in the book are a symbol of Canada's history when they had to give up their culture by assimilating and sometimes killing the Indigenous people
Survival
p.54 "us and the recruiters are motivated by the same thing, survival."
When Frenchie's brother sacrificed himself so that he wouldn't get taken away by the recruiters.
They're always on the run, trying to escape the recruiters that are hunting them down for their bone marrow.
Setting
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Residential schools
Separating Indigenous children from their families and their cultures. Assimilating them to Canadian culture. Banned from speaking their language and practicing their spiritual beliefs
The bush
Undevelopped canadian forests that contains many parasites and are known to be freezing and very dark at night.
It helped Frenchie and his group to hide from the recruiters because of their high concentration of tall trees. It provided them with great camouflage.
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Characters
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Recruiters
Human antagonist, captures Indigenous people and keep the prisoners in residential schools and they extract their marrow to acquire their dreams.
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Conflicts
Person VS nature
Frenchie and his group VS the bush: During their journey, they had to survive through very difficult weather conditions, like rain and snowstorms. The forest made it difficult to find food and to hunt... They had to stick together to be able to survive.