Frenchie, the protagonist and narrator, grows and matures throughout the story of The Marrow Thieves. Firstly, Frenchie shows signs of maturation early on in the story. For example, while out hunting, he encounters a moose in the forest. Strangely, he did not shoot it. Well, why does the Frenchie not kill the moose? This is the Frenchie’s reason. “But could he travel with this meat before it rotted? No. And could we smoke and dry it? No.I lowered the rifle.I couldn't do it. I couldn't let it come to this, not for him and not for me.” (49-50). Frenchie shows his growth in this situation. The old Frenchie would have thought of the moose as just an animal hand that would kill it for food, but now, Frenchie takes into consideration how much meat
