Jameson Nguyen David Harvey ENG1D May 24th 2023 Cherie Dimaline’s novel The Marrow Thieves shows losses such as losing their loved ones, trust, and their culture. A reason the novel explains losses is talking about the loss of their loved ones. An example of the loss of their loved ones. As one character says: "They take everything from us, and they still want more" (Dimaline 36) this tells us even if the Recruiters take more of them it won't be enough to sustain their needs. An example is when Frenchie's brother is taken away by the Recruiters, and later on in the story they keep searching for people and take Issac and Minerva and how they were special because they were older. This shows they were desperate to take the Indigenous for their marrow, and how they kept taking more people until their job was done. …show more content…
A loss of trust that the book shows was when the group met Travis and Lincoln, and how Miig thought they could trust them as they were running from the Recruiters. But they were proven wrong because of this scene in the chapter “About twenty feet off, Tree and Zheegwon were back to back, arms intertwined, at the end of a gun held by Travis.” (Dimaline 131) Miig and the group really had regretted thinking they could trust Travis and Lincoln because it has resulted in the twins were being held hostage and by gunpoint by Travis, and then Lincoln taking Riri to the cliff and then eventually killing himself with