The Marrow Thieves

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Nature has a massive effect on the world, so it is with utmost priority that we take care of it so that it prospers and doesn’t spoil. This story is a dramatization of how corrupt the earth could get through human action. It shows an environment where nature is starting to go rotten, and it seems like the end of the world. The government simply didn’t care about the world or how their actions would affect their surroundings. They went to war and dismissed the state of the world, losing billions of lives before they realized what was happening to the world. In The Marrow Thieves, the theme of nature preservation is created through the use of setting and conflict. Furthermore, the setting in Cherie Dimaline’s Marrow Thieves shows a post-apocalyptic world where nature isn’t necessarily dying, but it’s not doing good and thriving either. …show more content…

Their toxicity is proven with the sentences, “The Great Lakes were polluted to muck.fenced off, too poisonous for use.” Showing that they were dangerous to the point of needing to be enclosed with a fence (Dimaline 24). This is all because the humans are not worried about the environment around them at all, or the “setting” they live in. In conclusion, due to the human’s pollution of the earth, it led to unreversible effects on places of significance like the great lakes. Additionally, another literary device that was used to convey the theme is conflict. The conflict being character vs. nature where humanity is having to deal with an earth that is corrupted by pollution. “The world’s edges have been clipped by the rising waters.” This shows that some parts of the world have been drowned beneath the sea, most likely taking human lives in the process (Dimaline

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