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Keeper 'n Me: Plot, Characterization, and Overall Evaluation

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Hi, I have 5 assignments I need complete on the book, "Keeper'n Me" by Richard Wagamese, 4 of which are short essays. The book pdf will be provided here: https://cyber(dot)gscs(dot)ca/pluginfile.php/3710099/mod_resource/content/1/Keeper%20n%20Me%20-%20full%20novel.pdf
Please read the following instructions carefully, and if you don't understand the requirements of the assignment contact me. I have the rubrics for these assignments if wanted.
ASSIGNMENT 1 - Keeper'n Me PLOT:
Write a short plot summary using 3 to 4 well developed paragraphs of the novel, Keeper'n Me by Richard Wagamese. This plot summary should be about 350 words (1-1.5 pages typed, 1.5 spaced 12 font). Be sure to outline the basic plot including the exposition, complication, climax, denouement, and resolution. Include information such as where and when the story happens, who is telling the story and whether or not you enjoyed the plot and your reasons.
ASSIGNMENT 2 - Keeper'n Me CHARACTERIZATION
Create a literary sociogram (graphic organizer) using Garnet as the central character. Make sure to include Garnet's family. (This means a 6 character minimum).
You may use the following suggestions, but feel free to create your own.
- Place the central character in the center of the diagram
- Let the physical distance between the characters reflect the perceived psychological distance between the characters
- Let the size/shape of a symbol representing a character vary with the personality, importance, power, or lack of power, etc.
- Show the direction of the relationship with an arrow and its nature with a brief label.
- Represent substantiated relationships by a solid line and inferred relationships by a broken (----) line. What might a jagged or wavy line symbolize?
- Circle active characters with a solid line. Circle significantly absent characters with a broken line
- Place the characters who support the main character on one side of a dividing line, and antagonistic characters on the other (good vs bad)
The following is a youtube video tutorial on how to do this: https://www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=I8S9fyPZTHE&ab_channel=FindEasySolution
ASSIGNMENT 3 - Keeper'n Me OVERALL EVALUATION
Writing Prompt:
What are the best parts of the book? Why? What are the worst parts of the book? Why? What came as a surprise in the book? Why? Was the book believable or not? Why? Do you think the title suits the book? Why or why not? What is the author saying about life and living through this book? Provide some of the storylines in your reflections as well as direct quotes to support your ideas. What do you know now that you didn't know before as a result of reading this book? What would you rate this book out of 10? Why? Reflect upon how you relate to events in this book and provide a personal experience to explain this reflection.
Answer these questions using four to five well-developed paragraphs.
ASSIGNMENT 4 - Keeper'n me CULTURALLY UNACCEPTABLE QUOTES
The novel Keeper 'n Me focuses on the unacceptable treatment of First Nations people through the story of Garnet. While reading the novel, you would have encountered several racist and sterotype remarks of other cultures or lifestyles that were inappropriately represented. Please do not limit your selections to First Nations as other cultures were also improperly reflected in quotes. Find three examples of these racists or stereotypes in the novel. Provide the exact quotes from the novel and then share why each quote is inappropriate.
Provide your response using four to five well-developed paragraphs.
ASSIGNMENT 5 - Keeper'n Me FINAL PROJECT
Several aspects of the Ojibway (First Nations of Canada) culture are discussed in the novel. These aspects play a huge part in the culture and the identity of the people who identify as part of that culture. A lack of knowledge and understanding of people's culture often creates animosity and prejudice.
Please choose ONE of the following aspects of the Ojibway culture to research:
1. animal imagery (Ie: "bear thing", eagle feathers, etc.) (Introspection comes from behaviour of animals [Ie: the mole])
2. significance of tobacco and the offering of tobacco
3. "The land is a feeling" (pg. 223) and land claims
4. significance of the circle-balance
5. spirituality ("being a part of something that is bigger than everything" pg. 225)
6. ceremony (Ie: smudge, pow wow, sweat lodge, etc.)
Try to learn as much as you can about the aspect of the culture you chose and then use the information as well as the information you learned from the novel to write a newspaper article about how that particular aspect of culture influences the people of that culture and how understanding the culture can positively contribute to the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in our community. Share how this was revealed in the novel.
The article should be approximately 1-2 pages in length and include a bibliography and an image that accurately showcases the article's content. This assignment is worth 20 marks.

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Summary of "Keeper's Me"
Keeper'n Me by Richard Wagamese is a fictional novel that accentuates the importance of identity, culture, and background. The book revolves around Garnet, who was robbed by his parents in Ojibway Reserve by child services to send in foster care when he was 2-3 years old. After experiencing traumatic life in different foster homes, he escaped the system when he was 16 years old and started hitchhiking in search of identity. Getting involved in the black community, he takes an interest in drugs and is soon imprisoned while making a drug deal. In his five years imprisonment, his missing brother Stanley attempts to communicate with him through letters. He invites him to Qhite Dog Reserve after his discharge from the lockup, and Garnet does so. On coming home and meeting his people, he realizes that his indigenous ways of living were the way of life he was always connected to and searching for. The climax occurs when the protagonist's clothing is reformed into his native clothing to give him a more native look. On meeting Keeper, he discovers more about his cultural identity through the lake trip, providing him with spiritual relief and positivity (Wagamese 143). The story ends with a note of hope and happiness at the party organized by Garnet's mother for his son's return home.
The story is set in Ontario on a little primitive reserve on the verge of White Dog Lake. It is a lonely place where Garnet has much time to think and reflect on his life, discoveries and search for identity. The story references foster homes where the protagonist was taken as a child and the tribal life of American Africans he discovered in hitchhiking (Wagamese 14). The time set in the story was approximately the 1960s when the period of Sixties Scoop impacted the social life of Aboriginal Canadians along with colonization. It shows the First Nations at the hands of cultural exploitation by colonization and legal kidnapping of children with its social, physical, and psychological consequences in that era.
The story has two narrators, while Garnet remains the main narrator, telling things from his perspective. Keeper also explains many things from his point of view, but most of the story gives an adventurous and painful journey of Garnet to find his roots through his lens.
I enjoy the plot because it gives appropriate insight into Canada's social history during the country's historical period, the "Sixties Scoop." It unveils the worst intention of colonial imperialists to spread their culture and identity and the suppression of native traditions in the tribal life of Canada in the 1950s. Also, the story ends with an optimistic tone that makes it more enjoyable rather than distressing.
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