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The Theme Of Lila And The Crow By Tok Grimard

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In the children’s book Lila and the Crow by Gabrielle Grimard, the theme is shown as a young indigenous girl named Lila learns to accept and praise her Indigenous features. On Lila’s first day at a new school filled with potential friends, a classmate points at her and shouts “A crow! A crow! The new girl's hair is black like a crow!” in a taunting manner. The next day she covers her hair, thinking this will stop the bullying. However, the boy points at her dark skin and taunts her about that instead. When she covers her face, he makes fun of her dark eyes. From that day on, Lila hides under an excessive amount of clothes as an attempt to hide her indigenous features and fit in with the other children at school. At her lowest point of despair,
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