Humanity has almost destroyed the world through global warming. People have stopped dreaming, and now, something much worse is happening. Indigenous people are being hunted down and harvested for their bone marrow. People believe that their bone marrow can give them their dreams back. We are following Frenchie and his group of people who are running and trying to survive this cruel world. This is the Marrow Thieves, where trauma is commonly experienced. The main thing happening in the story is that people are being taken and killed for their bone marrow. People saw their family, friends, and strangers, get taken away to die. Frenchie saw his brother being taken away. Mitch was the last family member with Frenchie, when Mitch was taken, Frenchie was all…show more content… And it was empty, on its side, at the edge of the cliff,” (Dimaline, 135). She had been thrown off a cliff. A young child was killed. None of this is fair. With all this in mind, Frenchie had to watch two people he cared about get killed and taken away, which could end up with Minerva dying. This was only a span of a few days, so he didn’t have much time to heal from RiRi’s death. It may be difficult to believe, but one of the characters was sexually assaulted. Wab was her name, and she was only 15 or 16. Being assaulted at a young age, and it happens multiple times, must have been terrifying. Her mother didn’t even care or come looking for her. She was gone for two days. “I didn’t see when they carried me to the broken freezer, when they locked me in and lined up outside. I only saw for one minute when the redhead made his way in first, unzipping his jacket and untying his pants,” (Dimaline, 85). Personally, it is hard to speak up or do anything when you are assaulted. Coming from a personal experience with sexual assault, it is a tough thing to go through. You are haunted by it forever. “I didn’t feel the slice,” she
