Chapters 1-20

He was six years old. He was from a people who had forged survival out of the bush as hunters, trappers, fishermen. That way of being was tied directly to the power they felt everywhere around them, and he’d been born to that, had learned it like walking. The nuns found him hanging from the rafters of the barn on a cold February morning. He’d wrapped his own hands behind his back with twists of rope before he’d jumped. . Chapter 12. Page 31

Here Saul describes a little boy who had his identity stripped and beaten out of him. He kills himself. This is beyond disturbing. How could a six-year-old boy even contemplate such an idea? He had his soul crushed at this school.