In Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story, Robertson and Henderson present the idea that fiction elements make the reader feel more interested in the story and are sympathetic for first nation people, also show for the reader what first nation people had to endure.
Let’s talk about flashback first. The main flashback is Kokum flashbacks to when she was a kid and tells of the residential school. She had already said “When I was very young, around the age of five” after that, she said, ” Looking back, I do not know what hurt more”. This is the most important fiction element of the story.
“Indian Problem”
Assimilation Laws, Practices &
Indian Residential Schools.” Omfrc, 06/2016,https://www.omfrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/specialedition8.pdf. Accessed 9 Feb. 2020.
Another fiction element is omniscient: This story is base on the real story. Betty is a victim of a residential school and she is a person who wants to share what has happened in the residential school. She is a survivor in this school but it also has a lot of different perspectives from other characters.
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