The Marrow thieves
The settings
The themes
Plot
The character
The group is like a family but there are not related by blood
younger
Elders
Minerva
Miig
Chi-boy
Frenchie(francis)
Tree and Zheegwon (twins)
Slopper
Wab
RiRi
Rose: She his a fighter, she rebelled about the injustice in the world and she his stubborn. She was raised by old people and spoke like them.
Frenchie discreption of her:«Minerva was dark,round and tiny like a tree stump. she kept her long grey hair in two braids like a little girl with a flowered kerchief tied over her head and under her chin. She had old-timey ways but you couldn't get much from her, either she didin't talk and when she did it was im bursts accompanied by laugther and maybe a scream or two. Moslty she watch» p. 20
Frenchie description of him: «Miig wore his hair shaved to the skull expect expect down the middle and had a moustache that only grew on the left side of his top lip. He was tall but bent like a walking question mark, and he was short with words and patienc. Miig wore army pants, alternating between two identical pairs, and layers of brown and green sweaters» p.19
Frenchie description of him:«Chi-boy who at seventeen was the oldest boy and taller than anyone else. He was quiet almost to the point of being mute and skinny as a doe. He never seemed to sleep as long as the rest of us or need as much food, and he stuck close to miig so that when he was needed he was no more than a syllable away. He came from the gree lands.» p. 20
he is sixteen and was nickname frenchie for is name francis and for his people, the Metis. He came from a long line of hunter, trapper and voyageur. He wasn't the tallest but he had the longest hair of the group almost to his waist, burnt ombré at the untrimmed edge. he braid his hair himself each morning.
Frenchie descripton of the twins:« Then there were the tewlve years-old Tree and Zheegwon whose mathced green eyes communicated without words between them. They were broader than the rest of us, with widde shoulder and heavy hands that hung from ropey arms. They were dotted with scars.» p. 21
Frenchie description of him:« Slopper was a nine-years-old with the belly of a fifty-years-old diabetic. His family came from the East Coast.» p.21
Frenchie description of her: The girl had Wab, who at eighteen years old was practically a woman she had a vicious keloid slah that split her face nearly in two.» p. 21
Frenchie description of her: «Then there was RiRi, who came from a Metis community close to where my father had said ours used to be, who was old enough to piss in the bush and swear when we played.
The book might seem complicated to understand at the beginning if you don't know the settings. In the book is sate in a worlds where a lot of changes accure and here are the most important ones.
The nature: There is rising water that torn apart cities, a lot of tectonnic shifts, and also the climat change, it rains almost all the time now.
The animals: The animal because of all the change in the world, they change. Racoons were the size of a huskies, cockroaches had regained the ability to fly.
The poeple: Because the population was poisoning is own drinking water and change the air so much because of the polution disease strated to hapen. They moved around so much because of the tectonnic shifts that the disease spread very easly. A lot of people died and the rest got very sad and one way the sadness came out was when they slept. they couln't dream anymore.
Dream: i think dream is a big theme in the book not just because it's the cause of caotique situation between the dreamless and the indegenous people but a thing it may reffer to curiosity and imagination. I think it maybe a message. Maybe because were not as connected with the nature as we used to be we lost this ability to be creative and imaginative.
Family ( I think the book show how family is important and that we can always choose our family.)
Independance: i think the independance is a important theme in the book because like we saw in the group they encourage
p.150 : Minerva sacrifice herself to save the group. and it's leading them to go back for her and maybe they are going to fight instead of hide.
p:120 they found other indians who turns out to be traitors. they attract other on purpose to call the recruiter on them. This evenement cause the group to be very cautions about other indians and they feel like they can't trust anybody when they should count on eachother to fight they same enemy, the one who is traking them.
P. 157: Rose and frenchie found clean water. It could mean hope for a better world
page 4 : frenchie lost his brother who was the last family member he had and in a way because Mitch sacrifice himself for him to live he had to do everything to keep on living otherwise he would had died for nothing
Frenchie real family:
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Mitch(brother): The book doesn't really give us any information about how Mitch look like but we do know that he was brave by the sacrifice he did to save his brother.
the cities: now citie's have direction unstead of unique name's. I think it reflect the human nature and how it change because when you give a name to something it's because they have values and now that they don't have one it's like they don't matter anymore.
Father: was a member of a council who were suppose to talk to the governement but never came back. I think his father was really a generous men because he really tried to make a difference for the indegenous people.
Mother: she went to an old friendship center to find a few things to travel but never came back. She seems like a really good person because even if her lover had disapeard she was still there for her children
The dream: In the book all the poplulation exept the indegenous people had lost the ability to dream. This situation cause a lot of panic and mental health issue's. The dreamless became desperate for a cure so they took desperate action. School were created to take the cure they needed from the indegenous people. The cure to dream his in the bones marrow so they killed them to get it.
She like solitary work
Minerva has all the knowlege in the group that's why she his so precious. She knows the language and the culture.
p.137: Frenchie killed travis. This evenement his very important because after that he became really lost and it's leading him to make the descision to go save Minerva because it didin't make sense to run anymore.
p. 135 : we learn that Riri is dead. Riri was a source of joy in the group and her lost really hurt. Everybody was sad especially frenchie because they were so close. In fact the loss of Riri was devasteting for Frenchie and his anger against the one who did it leads him to kill travis.
p.100; Miggwans' coming-to story. Because Miigwans tell his story it help Frenchie to understand him better and understand the world he was in better. By hearing the strory it taught him lessons about surviving.
P.80: Wab's coming-to story. I think it's a important events because they could understand themself better in the group and learn about the true nature of some people.
Minerva strory: she was feeding her new grandson when the recruiter came. They took the baby, raped her and left her for dead.
Wab stroy: she was alone for 2 years before finding the group. Before she work as a messenger for people. I had personaly a really hard time reading the passage when she was kept in a fridge for 2 day and was assaulted
Twin story: They were held by a colony of townspeople who tried different ways to extract their dream. Miig found them tied up in a barn, dangling like scarecrows from a rope thrown over a beam. they were full of holes that'd been stitched up with rough thread, all up and down their side and with a pinky missing on each hand, they were seven then.
Both Riri and slopper lost there parents to the schools.
P.32 : rose join the group and she really as a effect on it espacially for frenchie who said that he needed to be a better person just through her existing.
P.17: frenchie join the group
Respect: I think respect was really a big theme in the book. As we follow the group grow into a family we can see that respect his a big part of they values. They each choose they own time to do they coming-out story. They have a deep respect for they ancestor and they culture as we can see when Miig tells them story
Love: I think love is a theme in the book just by the relationship between frenchie and the other member of the group. They are a lot a form that take love in the book
Truht: I think truht is a theme in the book because there is a lot of revelation about the true nature of some people. I think that when the lake became poison and the climate change change the world it was just the truth of what the human did to the planet.I think all the turht come out and we can see clearer.
Miig story: He had a loving husband who was taking into the school and only him matted out and he tried coming back for Isaac but when he arrive it was to late and now his heart his broken.
Miig from what a learn in the book is a really good leader who spread good values. He teachs the youngest to hunt and survived in the forest. He also, teach them their history and talk to them about their ancestor.