The Marrow Thieves is a novel by Metis Canadian author Cherie Dimaline. The book is about a world where most people have lost the ability to dream. The Indigenous people, who can still dream, are hunted for their bone marrow to create a serum that will help the others be able to dream again. In this novel, the main character, Frenchie, regrets failing to protect his family, killing a man named Trevor, and being rude to his love interest Rose.
Firstly, Frenchie regrets being unable to protect his family because he feels like he failed them and himself because he couldn’t keep them together. Frenchie says “I winced even thinking of it. My failure. I’d failed at protecting, and now, as a result, I failed at remaining myself” (Dimaline 180). Frenchie was saying that he feels bad for not being able to protect his family. He felt like a failure and he wishes he could have kept them all together so he would feel like himself again. Frenchie is showing that he regrets losing them because he feels like he could have tried harder to protect them but now they are all gone.
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Frenchie killed Travis because he and his partner tricked Frenchie and his friends into staying with them for the night but in the morning Travis and Lincoln had called the Recruiters, to get Frenchie and his friends ,for a reward. Lincoln had taken Riri, a young girl that was a part of Frenchie’s group, and killed her and himself. Out of anger Frenchie went and shot Travis to get revenge. A few days later Frenchie was thinking and said “Something had changed since I’d fired that gun, since I’d killed Travis. It was like a color had ceased to exist and now the world seemed dull” (Dimaline 139). This shows that Frenchie regrets killing Travis because he didn’t feel like himself anymore and everything seemed to change because he now has to carry the thought of him killing a man for the rest of his