Marrow Thieves

Marrow Thieves

Theme

I think the theme of the novel was survival, and I thought this because during page 54 Rose said "actually us and the recruiters are motivated by the same thing, survival, another time I felt the theme was survival was survival was during page 50 where French all split up to find food, and it further convinced me that the theme was survival and French was worried about RiRi. Also, When French had to jump out the window to survive and sacrifice French, to survive.

Setting

Not only does the setting perfectly remind me of when I went camping when I was small, I read a lot of indigenous books and they reminded me a lot of this book, because of story time at the night time reminded me alot of Indigenous communities recruiters and surviving. Espically after doing more research and knowing the author "Cherie Dimaline" is indigenous.

Charecters

RiRi

RiRi, always felt discriminated against, because she was never included in story time, since she was so young. Every night, she would ask French about story time and French would always say no. French had a weird realtionship with RiRi

French

The book starts off by Mitch being captured, and I think he does this to kind of show how hard it is for French; instead of just saying after he was captured. French also changes throughout the book, one example is when page 50 ( add jumping on fence) and I think French changed after that, because I he had trouble sleeping but after that it seemed like he didn't I think he felt like a family.

Conflict

I think French had a person vs self conflict, because after Mitch was captured, French was walking around until he met Minerva Rose RiRi etc. I feel like he felt like a family again, when around and and seeing RiRi and Minerva dying might have been really harsh for him after thought of us like a family. Which is a good thing for French, as he feels like home again, but it can also be also be a bad thing if they are trying to stop the recruiters as French will be distracted. This further adds that the theme is surviving, as they are trying to survive from the recruiters.

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This book reminded me of a book called "The Revenant" The Revenant was a book about survival. Glass Hugh was often targeted by Fitzerguard. This reminded me of the Marrow Thieves as Fitzerguard can kind of be the recruiters as he's trying to capture and kill Glass. His son Hawk, was later killed as he was trying to help Glass. Glass was low on food and water and fought a bear and had many wounds inches deep. Fitzerguard found him and convinced everyone that we should kill him for our own good, a heart breaking moment when I was reading the book, but when I thought about it more it reminded me so much about the "Pink Boots" of how they we're pretending be Indigenous as well, but lied.

World

I think that the book was mainly trying to show how the indigenous community felt, even if it is a fictional book, story time and splitting up for food almost perfectly resembles what indigenous people went through when residential schools we're around. I think it was to show the indigenous people avoided the residential schools and the sacrifices that needed to be made. Which is why, it was so heart breaking to find out that people in their own 'tribe' had betrayed them.

Self

RiRi's relationship with the elders and French reminded me so much about me and my family relationship, I would always ask to do the washer to take photos, but they never let me. Espically when RiRi was left for story time, it reminded me so much when my family told me that I couldn't do something. I think this was to make a strong realtionship with everyone to RiRi because, in my experience younger people are usually in the center of the attention and the author wanted to make that clear.

Summary

I'm going to be honest, while reading the book I didn't think it was that good but while writing my blog and the mindmap, the book can be expanded into so many other topics, I feel it's a good book to have someone read with you but to it's not a book just to pick up and read, it feels like a book that you can talk later about.