Characters & Names
The main character's traditional name and the narrator of the memoir.
Who is Olemaun?
The specific location (type of institution) where the majority of the story takes place.
What is a government-run residential school?
The main type of conflict between Olemaun and the Raven.
What is The Raven singles Olemaun out for unfair punishments and humiliation?
The part of speech for the word scratchy as used to describe the uniforms.
What is adjective?
The central theme exemplified by Olemaun's determination to learn despite the cruelty.
What is resilience?
he name Olemaun was given by the nuns at the residential school.
Who is Margaret?
The item the nuns burned, separating Olemaun from her cultural identity and home.
What is her beautiful new coat (or traditional clothing)?
The term used for the stockings that were too big and earned Olemaun her cruel nickname.
What are Fatty Legs?
The word meaning "fearless and daring" used to describe Olemaun's initial excitement.
What is audacious?
The Raven's reaction when she saw Olemaun's bare legs.
What is, she threw her hands up in the air!!
The specific nun who gave Olemaun the oversized, humiliating stockings.
Who is the Raven?
The practice the nuns required of all girls that was a sign of assimilation and loss of freedom.
What is cutting their hair?
The specific piece of evidence that shows the Raven's attempt to break Olemaun's spirit, related to her hair.
What is cutting her hair?
The best meaning for the word pittance used to describe the family visit time.
What is a very small, inadequate amount?
The primary cultural identity that the nuns attempted to strip away from Olemaun and the students.
What is Inuit culture/identity?
The kind nun who protected Olemaun from the Raven.
Who is Sister MacQuillan?
What Olemaun was most excited to learn to do before arriving at the school.
What is reading a book?
An unfair rule or humiliation used to single out Olemaun, often related to her clothing.
What is forcing her to wear the oversized stockings?
The feeling created by the school's complete lack of personal control over the students' daily lives.
What is powerlessness (or oppression/control)?
The type of literary work Fatty Legs is (a true story written by the subject herself).
What is a memoir?
The main character's older sister who had already attended the school.
Who is Rosie?
The small, inadequate amount of time the students had to spend with their families in the summer is described using the word________
What is pittance?
The reason Olemaun initially wanted to go to the school, showing her audacious nature.
What is her desire to learn to read?
The word used to describe how Olemaun felt when the principal gives her the hideous, oversized stockings to make fun of her.
What is humiliated?
The quiet emotion Olemaun feels when she finally realizes she has achieved her goal of reading.
What is triumph?