The story continues as Tiffany gets back home and thankfully gets her room back. Pierre in the basement starts recalling his childhood memories and then he disappears into the woods. On the other side of Otter Lake, people are seeing “monsters” that shouldn’t exist. In the morning, Keith is going duck hunting, and he meets Pierre. They chat until Keith leaves. When Tiffany wakes up, her grandmother asks her to take the laundry downstairs to the washer. She sees the basement is unusually dark, but before she can peep inside, Granny Ruth called her upstairs. (97-98) Then she goes out to visit her friends. Later when Keith gets home, there’s a power failure. He goes in to Tiffany’s room to get some batteries and accidentally discovered Tiffany’s report card. He is very angry of her bad marks. And Tiffany is also having trouble getting along with her friends after she ditched them.
When Pierre is thinking about his past, the author used flashback to present it. It uses first person to describe the life of a boy named Owl. It tells the story in a more realistic way. The author also used flashback to tell the story about Tiffany’s mother. The timeline is switching back and forth. The novel contains many verisimilitudes. In there it mentions about University of British Columbia and places like Wal-Mart and McDonalds. It brings the reader more into the story because it just happens in our everyday lives. There is a motif of darkness. It reoccurs many times in the novel, from the first time when he was on the plane, to his encounter with the citizens, then to the basement when he sleeps, including the dog’s reaction towards him. It reflects him as a dark and troubled person. It creates the mood of the story.
This part of the novel didn’t develop much in these few chapters, but it makes me want to know what will happen when Tiffany goes back home to face his father. As a teenage girl, communications with our parents are usually not very good. Hiding bad report cards from parents might not be unusual for some people. The book shows a good example of what might happen in a family, doesn’t matter they’re first nation or not. Furthermore, we learned about Pierre’s childhood life. Now it is not limited to the 21st century, we are able to know what the first nation’s life is like hundreds of years ago, when white men were not yet in Canada. It is interesting to know their lives and culture. And then when they came, the reactions from the aboriginals. I was not fear as I expected, some people are excited, and thrilled for adventure.
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