Saul uses hockey to escape from the negativity of the school and to ease his suffering. However, the second he plays in White River, suffering in the form of racism, gets tied to hockey as well. I cannot believe that, even though he attends a school that causes him so much pain and suffering already, he still has to endure racism and pain outside of the school as well. This makes me wonder whether residential schools and their effects on Indigenous children were downplayed in the past, or whether the people were all raised in a racist manner, or whether the people back then were just that cruel and careless. Whatever the reason, it must have hurt Saul a lot to see his only escape get tainted a bit, and to see how the residential school is not the only place where he will experience racism and torture. To be able to keep pushing on, even after experiencing so much negativity everywhere, is truly remarkable.