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the marrow thieves (characters : (Miig : One of the elders in the groupe.…
the marrow thieves
characters :
Miig : One of the elders in the groupe. He tells story every night around the fire to share the knowledge of their poeple. He almost got caught by the recruiters because he letstrangers into his house. He would risk his life for all the groupe no matter what.
Riri : she is the youngest child in the group ( 7 years old). She always gets mad when they tell her she cant stay for the story's so she ask's frenchie and this is how they build there relationship.
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wab : She is 18 years old, her face was almost split in two with keloid slash. It created really old scars that healed with the time. She got her scar when she got attacked by an east side gang in her clubhouse. She was a mercenary for one of the west Side gangs.
Frenchie : He is the main carachter in the novel, at the beginning of the novel his brother was taken and he lost his parents so he was alone. On the path to go up north, he gets saved by a family of indigenous people. The story goes by and he catches feeling for rose.
tree and zheegwon : they are 12 years old and they are twins. The two of them have green eyes and scars in their faces.
slopper : he is nine years old, he is very big because he has a belly of a fifty-year old diabetic. His family was from the east cost.
chi-boy : 17 years old , he is very silent, and very skinny. He came from the west. ( the Cree Lands )
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themes
dreams : indigenous people have the ability to dream, the non-indigenous people don't have this ability, so this is why they are being chased by recruiters. dreams are kept in the bones marrow. It is an important theme because it shows that the indigenous people dream about a good life but cant even live it because they are being chased.
story : the story of this group of indigenous people shows that they need to move to the north because the recruiters are chasing theme for their marrow so that they can dream again. The fact that they all lost members of their blood related family for a reason very stupid shows that they need to stick together just to have the feeling of being in a family.
environnement : the characters from the story shoes how their environment is horrible and very not good because they need to keep walking and moving to the north for the their own survival. This means that they cant stay and to a certain place and live a normal life. This theme is very important because most of the story happens outside and it shows how non-withe people are mistreated and do not have the same privileges as white peoples have. In the novel their is a lot of problems concerning the environment : sea levels have risen and transformed the coastlines,oil pipelines have poisoned many freswater sources, and the temperature combined with the earthquakes have modified the landscape.
plot
all the indigenous people have to move to the north so they don't get caught by the recruiters. Frenchie meets a group of indigenous people and they go true a lot true the story togheter. They also find a hotel were they get to stay and get closer.
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