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The Marrow Thieves (Themes (Friendship (Friendship is a huge theme in this…
The Marrow Thieves
Themes
Friendship
Friendship is a huge theme in this book because most of the family's got separated because of death or other things. But, naturally, humans need to have social relation with other people so they need to make friend so that they have better chances at surviving and for their mental health.
Hunted by other humans
All the rich non-indigenous humans are hunting down the indigenous people to steal their bone marrows and be able to dream again, because of this, all the indigenous people are living under the radar and hiding for their own survival.
Survival
All the main characters we are following are mainly living in the forest in tents and eat from hunting down beast. They all know the basic survival skills like, having a shelter, finding water, finding food, making a fire, etc.
Indigenous people
The indigenous people in the book setting are really important because they are the last humans able to dream. Because of this, they get tracked by the other humans and races.
Environment
Most of the earth is non-livable because of the pollution humans created, water is really rare, food too. Animals are slowly adapting to the new earth environment and in some decennies, they will overpower the humans.
Indigenous people
They are the only people in the future who can dream and because of that, they get hunted by the other humans.
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Setting
Futuristic world, nature took control over the humans and technology
There isn't a lot of food or water because all of it got contaminated by pollution, broken pipelines, industry not taking care of the environment, etc.
Most of the planet is not habitable and animals will take control of the Earth over the humans in less than a hundred years.
Blood family
Most people lost their family's but, they create bond between other people so that they are not alone.
As we can see in the book, everybody in order to survive try living in small groups in order to be able to protect themselves and have a leader in their group to make the right choices. The leader could be seen as the father of the group, like how Miig is the leader and kinda the father of the people in their small tribe.
Biological family
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A lot of family lost themselves in the process of surviving, some parents knew they couldn't protect their kids and just let them go to save themselves.
Four Winds Resort
Why did the resort looked like it had been never used? In the book, it is implied that this resort got constructed by rich people to save themselves from the fall of the human race but they just never got to the resort.
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I think that Wab's coming to story really shows how she is in the book, a strong reliable survivor. I also think that we will learn more about her past and how she is such a good hunter and how her all around survival skills are so high. I really hope that she is gonna put her skills to use and save the little group with her knowledge at least once in the book.
From Migwaan's coming to story, I really saw how strong and resilient he was because losing his lover is one of the hardest thing in the world I imagine but that didn't made his stop living and now, he just wants to survive and live with other people to protect.