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The Marrow Thieves
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The Marrow Thieves
Chapters 16-17 (Page 138-153)
Plot Summary
Chapter 17
Chapter 16
Plot Summary
-The group are left to cope after RiRi's death
-Mig tells Frenchie the rest of his coming to story
-Frenchie is reminded that we will have to make hard decisions however in this world if the intention is good, nothing else matters
-While on the run, they find a barn
-The group decides to stay overnight there
-Minerva knew the recruiters were coming and sacrificed herself
-Frenchie makes the decision to go after Minerva
Conflicts
Conflicts
Chapter 16,
Person vs Self
-Frenchie has suicide in mind because he had killed someone and due to Riri's death
Person vs Person
-The group is running from recruiters
Chapter 17,
Person vs Person
-Minerva and the recruiters
Important Passage
"Minerva wont come up... Sure enough, Minerva stood far back from the ladder, arms across her chest, kerchief tight around her fat face".
Significance
Minor Characters
The Recruiters play a minor role in chapter 16
Slopper play's a minor role in chapter 17
Minor Characters
Setting
-The setting for chapter 16 is mostly in the past
Settings
-The setting for chapter 17 is a barn in the woods.
Symbols
The vial that Migg kept from Issac is a symbol of the his love for him.
Important Symbols
Important Passage
Frenchie said "Whether it was this second huge loss or the life i'd taken with all the speed of vengeance back at the cliff, I wasnt sure. But there was no more nortth in my heart. And I wasnt sure what I meant to do untill i said it out loud. Im going after Minerva".
Significance
Character traits
Main Characters
Frenchie's character traits
Bravery-end of chapter seventeen he decides to go after Minerva.
Unsure- he's unsure of himself because he killed a man and is suffering from guilt.
Sad- Frenchie is because of the recent loss of RiRi.
Minerva
Selfless- near the end of the chapter she sacrafices herself to save the rest of the group from recruiters.
Sadness-she just the same as Frenchie is greiving over the loss of the youngest in the group RiRi
Migg
anger- during his story he finds out that Isaac is dead so he takes this anger out on the truck driver
sadness- RiRi was killed and minerva was taken
Theme
Grief-The main theme of these two chapters is grief due to the loss of the youngest and the elder of the group
Themes
Significance
Significance
"then they dragged out Minerva, who stayed silent, whose smile was the last thing we saw as they turned through the door way, whom we were sure we would never see again"(Pg.151).
this passage is significant because its the point in which Minerva was taken.
Figurative Language
Page 139,
"It was like a color had ceased to exist and how the world seemed dull"
-Simile
Page 146,
"He chopped the air with his arms directing us to scatter left into the trees"
-Personification
Page 148,
"... not even the leftover scent of manure greeted us"
-Personification
Figurative Language
Part Two
Page: 140
"...knowing only that your people could be strapped into some kind a machine that chews them up and spits out bone mush and sticky sap"
-Personification
Page: 143
"Gun clattering against my skull"
-Hyperbole
Page: 138
"Chi-boy and Miig taking turns carrying Minvera like a child on their back..."
-Simile
Figurative language
Part Three
1."Then i heard them. Sharp, short blasts of fatid breath pushed down through a metal cylinder through the scruff of a combed down mustache"(Pg.146.personification).
2."A harrow gorge and a crossing a clover filled clearing like gazzels with pack sacks(Pg.157.simile).
3.Sharp metal: angular aditory jabs:cold, dry, biting alarm.(Pg.150.personification).