The Marrow Thieves -Important Quotations

Story: Part One & Magic Words & Haunted in the Bush

Re-read the following quotations taken from the text. Identify the speaker and to whom he/she is
speaking to or about. Then explain the significance of the quote (literary devices, theme, symbols, etc).
Be ready to discuss!

Quote Significance

Speaker: _________________
But we sang our songs and brought them to the Analysis:
streets and into the classrooms—classrooms we
built on our own lands and filled with our own
words and books. And once we remembered
that we were warriors, once we honored the
pain and left it on the side of the road, we
moved ahead. We were back (24).

Speaker: _________________
I watched the dream catcher spin to a stop. I Analysis:
remembered following Mitch around, bugging
him for any details he might know as we
tromped after my parents to the Bay. I thought
about the parts Miig had left out tonight the
parts that kept us running. Even still, it was
unfair to keep everything form RiRi (28).

Speaker: _________________
Miig handed the catch to Wab. As the only Analysis:
woman in the bunch, other than crazy old
Minerva, the management of cooking fell in her
domain. Not that she had to cook everything
herself, just that she got to say who did it and
how. As the woman of the group she was in
charge of important things. Even herself (37).
 Speaker: _________________
Analysis:

"How do you have language?" My voice broke on

the last syllable. My chest tightened. How could
she have the language? She was the same age as
me, and I deserved it more. I don't know why,
but I felt certain that I did. I yanked my braid out
of the back of my shirt and let it fall over my
shoulder. Some kind of proof, I suppose (38).

Speaker: _________________
Analysis:

It was painful, but I didn't really mind. The more I

described my brother, my parents, our makeshift
community before Dad left with the Council, the
more I remembered, like the way my uncle
jigged to heavy metal. Instead of dreaming their
tragic forms, I recreated them as living, laughing
people in the cool red confines of RiRi's tent as
she drifted off (43).

From where we were now, running, looking at Speaker: _________________________

reality from this one point in time, it seemed as Analysis:
though the world had suddenly gone mad.
Poisoning your own drinking water, changing the
air so much the earth shook and melted and
crumbled, harvesting a race for medicine. How?
How could this happen? Were they that much
different from us? Would we be like them if we'd
had a choice? Were they like us enough to let us
live (47-48).