The Boy Who Looked Like Lincoln by Mike Reiss

The essay contains several headings under which the core elements of the story are broken down into smaller fragments in order to validate the concepts mentioned above and demonstrate that The Marrow Thieves is a multidimensional story that could be deemed as relevant in today’s society to a certain extent as well.

This is going to be completed with the help of thematic analysis intended to facilitate the process of finding the most prevalent topics across the story and develop an argument on why hope, dreams, and love could become the key moving forces within one’s life.

The author will outline the importance of dreaming with the help of rich insights into the leitmotifs of hope, history, and love in The Marrow Thieves. The current essay is going to address the problem of not being able to dream when oppressed and limited in numerous ways. Cherie Dimaline uses the cohort of indigenous people and images of some famous non-indigenous people to highlight the need to dream regardless of the person’s status. The author uses dreams throughout the novel as a technique to explore the ability to have a vision, meaning that only those who see today as an opportunity can survive tomorrow. They extracted marrow from the indigenous people in these schools after capturing them. For the Recruiters to be successful in their mission, they turned to the history of building residential schools. The protagonist, Frenchie, a fifteen-year-old boy, and his companions try their best to avoid the Recruiters for their safety, they run to the north (Brock).

To get the marrow means death to the unwilling donors. The antagonist, the corrupt government, is looking for a dreamer who can still dream of removing marrow and treating the larger population unable to dream. The story focuses on a bleak future in Canada in which most people are no longer able to dream, and indigenous romantics have to escape their routine. The novel, The Marrow Thieves, was authored by Cherie Dimaline and published by Cormorant Books Incorporated on April 15th, 2017.

The Boy Who Looked Like Lincoln by Mike Reiss