Memory is a living, changing, inclusive creature that informs the present – and can connect all communities
a moving memoir of his life in the Northern Ontario Garnier Residential School. Ten years later,in which two boys fly away to a residential school from their loving home in Eemanapiteepitat.
Johnston offsets the harshness of the boys’ lives in the residential school with deft personality sketches and their funny acts of resistance. He shows how the students’ jokes and pranks made bearable their hunger and physical suffering and psychological abandonment in that institutional life. Basil left the school after six years. In the scene in which he is sent home, the other boys whisper, “When you get home tell everybody what it’s like here. Tell the other boys never to come here.
Language is essential in this storytelling too. Basil, who was punished for speaking Ojibway, is recruited by a priest to go with him to a student runaway’s household to interpret from Ojibway to English. The mission ends when they are driven off with a shotgun. Basil returns to school and is forbidden again to speak his language.
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