Losing yourself could look different in anyone's eyes in a million different ways. In this tragic series of events that occurs in this novel, losing yourself would look like losing your identity, your…
The Marrow Thieves
The novel The marrow thieves are about Indigenous people who are on the run. It takes place in the future where only Indigenous people can dream. While the rest of the population is unable. they reali…
The value of indigenous people bonds together a strong foundation of family, blood or not. At the beginning of the story, Frenchie loses his biological family but soon gets welcomed into another famil…
Having an understanding in life is a key value as Nellie McClung once stated "People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future." By being able to understand what is going on…
What motivates you in life? What makes you work hard? Is it a person? Hobby? Pet? The Marrow Thieves is a dystopian novel written by Cherie Dimaline. It follows the story of a boy named Frenchie in a …
Miig and his friends are on a journey to avoid being recruited for bone marrow harvesting. They lose some along the way, but they grow closer as friends as time goes. The capacity to lead a group is a…
In Cherie Dimaline's novel The Marrow Thieves, dreams are important to the characters because dreams help pass down the language, they keep society functioning, they motivate the group mentally, and t…
In the novel The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline says "Sometimes you risk everything for a life worth living, even if you're not the one that'll be alive to see it."(Dimaline 152). This idea reflects …
In difficult situations, when survival options are few, self-sacrifice is preferable to having your loved ones captured and killed, if doing so allows your loved ones to survive and live another day. …
