Plot Details
These 2 characters are reuninted at the very end of the novel.
Who is Isaac and Miig?
Who has a tattoo of a feather under their collarbone?
Miigwans!
"We're all dead anyway. I should make a shish kebab of your kids."
Frenchie
The title of a chapter being called “Lost and Found and Lost” is an example of…
Foreshadowing
Or repetition
Topic: stories
Theme statement: ?
Stories are what keep culture alive
Stories from the past help people survive in the present
(Answers may vary)
The 3 setting details of this story are… (_ _ _ _ , _ _ _ _ _, and _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _)
Time: near future; Place: Ontario (Toronto to north); world ravaged by climate change and people can't dream; Indigenous people being hunted
These characters are twins, both with green eyes, and they swap a hat back and forth.
Tree and Zheegwon
"But we sang our songs and brought them to the streets and into the classrooms—classrooms we built on our own lands and filled with our own words and books. And once we remembered that we were warriors, once we honored the pain and left it on the side of the road, we moved ahead. We were back."
Miig
Dimaline refers to the traumatic and very real history of the Indian residential school system in Canada throughout the story. What literary device is this?
allusion
Topic: love
Theme: ?
Love comes at unexpected times
Love never dies
Love gives us hope, keeps us going
(Answers may vary)
What is the CLIMAX of the story?
When Minerva dies during their mission to save her.
Frenchie grows jealous of this character when he encroaches on his relationship with Rose.
Derrick
“From where we were now, running, looking at reality from this one point in time, it seemed as though the world had suddenly gone mad. Poisoning your own drinking water, changing the air so much the earth shook and melted and crumbled, harvesting a race for medicine. How? How could this happen? Were they that much different from us?”
Frenchie
“He adjusted the pillows under his head and nuzzled into the skin of the made bed like a child.”
Name 2 devices in this quote ^
simile and imagery
The group sleeps in separate rooms at the Four Winds Resort, but by morning, they all end up sleeping in Frenchie’s room.
A theme emerging here is…
Walls don’t make a home, people do.
They are a family though they are not related by blood.
Safety in numbers
(answers may vary…)
Why did the author choose to write this story from the Indigenous perspective?
Because she is Métis, which is mixed European (French) and Indigenous ancestry.
Alternative answer: she wanted her own people to see themselves as the heroes.
These two characters are Indigenous but quickly prove to be bad news. Name the one who dies with Riri and the one who is shot by Frenchie.
Lincoln: with Riri
Travis: shot by Frenchie
"Sometimes you risk everything for a life worth living, even if you're not the one that'll be alive to live it."
Chi-Boy
“A man without dreams is just a meaty machine with a broken gauge.”
metaphor
Topic: climate disaster/change
Theme: ?
When the land is sick, humans get sick...
Everyone suffers the consequences of climate change…
Quick-fix solutions to problems aren’t the answer…
Indigenous people know how to steward the land best…
In the story, how was the government able to get support to capture Indigenous people?
The government gathered support by claiming that the inability to dream would cause further chaos and madness.
This character is at first undervalued by Frenchie, but later is instrumental in saving them.
Minerva
"Soon, they needed too many bodies, and they turned to history to show them how to best keep us warehoused, how to best position the culling. That's when the new residential schools started growing up from the dirt like poisonous brick mushrooms."
Miig
Braided hair is a symbol of what in The Marrow Thieves?
What is their indigeneity
(their culture, tradition)
What theme is the author trying to portray when Frenchie states, “And I was doing something strong to keep her safe, to keep all of them safe” (96).
That humans will sacrifice a great deal for those they love.
Family is worth the sacrifice.
(answers may vary)