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 because it talks 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. Another main reason why the novel shows losses is losing trust. 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 …show more content…
Culture is important in this novel because it talks about the real-life events that sadly happened to the Indigenous people. In the book, the Recruiters are represented as the people who would go to Indigenous houses, take the children from their parents, and send them to residential schools to strip their culture away. Miig tells the story of how everything happened “And that’s when they opened the first schools. In ''We suffered there. We almost lost our languages. Many lost their innocence, their laughter, their lives.” (Dimaline 23) this shows the idea of what the Residential schools have done to the kids who sadly were taken away from their families, and what the government has done to