Foster Care System In April Raintree By Beatrice Culleton

The novel I’ve read was called April Raintree by Beatrice Culleton. This book was based on other peoples experiences of being Indigenous or being in the foster care system. When Beatrice wrote this book it felt extremely realistic from the bits that were violent. The author of this book is really idealistic about how she set up her ideas in a certain way. The main characters of this novel are, April and Cheryl Raintree. April Raintree is about two metis girls getting pulled into the foster care system, while they are in the foster care April gets put into a bad foster home with the DeRosiers. After they were old enough to get out of the foster system, April and Cheryl were living together when they witness dramatic events. The huge and dramatic event that occured in the novel was the rape scene. When April went back to Manitoba right after she heard about her sisters accident. Cheryl told April that she was living with a man

While April and Roger were at Nancy’s house she was telling both of them on how Cheryl left the house, while April was thinking about how her mother died she believed it was a clue where Cheryl could be that’s when April says “ She jumped off the Louise Bridge” When the police and April got the the bridge and heard two boys giving a statement on Cheryl while she jumped off the bridge saying “She just stood on the railing, I tell you, and jumped off. Ask Stan here. He was with me. We both saw it. We tired to stop it, Officer. We slammed on the brakes but we couldn’t get there in time. Christ, one minute she was standing there, balancing, and the next nothing. Why would she want to do a thing like that? Those Indians are always killing themselves. If they aren’t shooting each other on the reserves, it’s this. Holy jumpin’ Jupiter! What a night this has been. And now this. I tell you it’s