Marrow Thieves Sparknotes

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If great teamwork and survival books are appealing, this essay will tell you about a great book. In the science fiction book, Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline, she writes about a group of Native Americans that try to head north. They are heading north because there are these hunters called recruiters trying to hunt them down. The hunters' goal is to catch them so they can take their bone marrow. They want their bone marrow to restore everyone's dreams. Throughout the novel, the author is trying to say, the key to survival is to stick together. The author uses tension to develop the theme of how Frenchie and his friends need to stick together to be safe. One way the author showed this is when Frenchie and his friends stopped after running …show more content…

You´re the best damn climber there is…you´re going to grab the pine tree behind us and climb up into it.¨(3) These quotes support the theme because it tells the audience that Frenchie and Mitch care for each other. It also says that, if they don't work together, both of them are going to be taken by the recruiters. The way the author shows Frenchies and Mitch's teamwork shows that they don't want to be taken by recruiters. The quotes show that if they want to survive, they have to stick together.
The author uses recruiters to develop the theme of how Frenchie and his friends Need to stay safe from recruiters to live. The author shows this when Frenchie was telling miig about the people the recruiters took. ¨Our little girl, RiRi, passed on in the middle of a kidnapping attempt…And our elder, Minerva, was taken from us by recruiters.¨(178)This quote supports the theme because it tells the audience that the recruiters are taking their friends. It also tells the audience that no one is safe because their recruiters killed an elder and a kid. The way the author uses recruiters tells the audience, if they want to stay away from the recruiters, they have to work