Plot
Frenchie and Rose find this in a river.
What is a fish?
Minera did this and it brought down the school government facility she was being held at.
What is sang?
What is pride in his Indigenous identity?
The importance of language.
What is Minerva teaching them language?
"My dirty fingers skittered across the shiny surface like skates" (p. 6).
What is a simile?
Frenchie's actions right after the death of RiRi.
What is killing Travis?
Frenchie's behaviour around Derrick is due to this.
What is Frenchie is jealous of him because he also likes Rose?
The moose Frenchie does not kill.
What is a respectful relationship with nature?
The importance of family.
What is Frenchie finding his dad again, Miig's group of ragtag Indigenous folks, etc.
"Then I shook each sleepy limb, each screaming muscle back into service" (p. 7).
What is personification?
What is dystopian, apocalyptic, and survival?
What is self-sacrifice? To protect the rest of the group from being captured by Recruiters and taken to a government school facility.
Miigs' tattoo on the back of his hand.
A symbol of his marriage to Isaac.
Climate change and the importance of protecting the earth.
What is Frenchie not killing the moose, the lakes being polluted, the rain being nonstop and acidic, etc.
“He adjusted the pillows under his head and nuzzled into the skin of the made bed like a child” (p. 105).
What is a simile?
The story Minerva tells the first night at The Four Winds resort.
The story of the Rogarou.
A turning point for Frenchie in the novel.
What is not killing the moose, RiRi's death, deciding to save Minerva?
RiRi's shiny, pink, candy-like rainboots.
What is childhood innocence?
Coming of age.
What is Frenchie's relationship with Rose, Frenchie becoming a leader and going off on his own.
“A man without dreams is just a meaty machine with a broken gauge” (p. 142).
What is a metaphor?
The reason why Frenchie grabs the believed to be electrified fence.
What is Frenchie believes that Miig's survival is more important than his?
This event made Frenchie realize the seriousness of Miig's role as a leader.
What is Frenchie climbing to the top of a tree and seeing another "school" being built? Miig explains to Frenchie that he cannot tell the rest of the group.
What is sacred and unique Indigenous knowledge and culture.
Cyclical histories.
What is the residential school systems, the violence against Indigenous women & 2-spirit people, etc.
“We had walked for almost an hour before I felt the last fingers of the dream loosen from my lower back” (p. 71).
What is personification?