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The Theme, Mood and Character of Saul from Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese

By JJ Bird

* Background: Traditional Ojibwe Floral print
St. Jerome’s Residential School (film adaptation)
St. Jerome’s Residential School — film adaptation
“At St. Jerome’s we work to remove the Indian from our children so that the blessings of the Lord may be evidenced upon them.”
(Wagamese 46–47)
“St. Jerome’s took all the light from my world. Everything I knew vanished behind me with an audible swish, like the sound a moose makes disappearing into spruce.”
(Wagamese 43)
Saul — film adaptation
Saul — film adaptation
“When I hit the ice I left all of that behind me. I stepped onto the ice and Saul Indian Horse, the abandoned Ojibway kid, clutched in the frozen arms of his dead grandmother, ceased to exist.”
(Wagamese 83)