Experiences Of The Characters In April Raintree

The characters are April Raintree and Sheryl Raintree, two Meti girls that were taken away by the Canadian government movement Sixties Scoop at an early age. Because of this, these two sisters went through terrible experiences. Another character of importance is Saul Indian Horse. He is a Northern Ojibwe who was taken away from his culture and family. He went through awful experiences during the Residential Schools movement. These characters have something in common and that is because these three characters went through a lot at an early age, losing their culture and family. These experiences made these characters lose who they were at an early age. The feeling of not knowing who you are affects several factors in life. People who do not know

These experiences leave scars that are exceedingly difficult to heal. These experiences are hard to heal because people that go through them turn to alcohol or drugs as a coping mechanism. The government of Canada thought that taking away these kids from their homes was going to help them to have a brighter future. Nevertheless, the government took away these kids and was making them feel lost.

When a person does not know who they are, it affects parts of their life. The experiences that April, Sheryl, and Saul went through are the ones that negatively marked their lives. It all started because the Canadian government wanted to start movements to change the way Indigenous Peoples are and they thought that taking away their children would be the best option for the Indigenous Peoples and their children. The residential school movement negatively affected Saul's life all started when he was eight. He was taken away to a residential school called St.Jeromes. Although Saul was only eight, his thoughts show the pain and the feeling of being

This happens because the feelings and thoughts of these people were suppressed from when they were little. The characters April Raintree, Sheryl Raintree, and Saul show these types of behaviors of immaturity and weakness throughout the novels. “She just stood up on the railing, I tell you, and jumped off.” (Page 121) Sharyl Raintree committed suicide because of all the experiences of abuse, racism, and prejudice she went through. People who decide or try to commit suicide usually do it because people that pass through these experiences do not know how to deal with their emotions and how to see the world in a unique way where the past does not affect the emotions of the past and present in which they lived or are living. “You are born for more” (Indian Horse Page 170) Virgil sees the potential that Saul has, after Saul stopped playing hockey, he became someone who is always drunk and someone who forgot who he was a talented hard-working boy, all of this happened because he was going through racism and comparison in the Hockey team that Saul was part of making him feel confused of who he was and why he had to be the one going through these experiences of fame and hate at such an early