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Explain the meaning and implications of this quote. "When your innocence is stripped from you, when your people are denigrated, when your family is denounced and your tribal ways and rituals are pronounced backward, primitive, savage, you come to see your

Explain the meaning and implications of this quote. "When your innocence is stripped from you, when your people are denigrated, when your family is denounced and your tribal ways and rituals are pronounced backward, primitive, savage, you come to see yourself as less than human" (81).

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Much of the narrative is evidence for your quote. . From Saul's brother Benjamin dying from disease caught at St. Jerome’s school to Saul's own denigrating experiences there to Saul's humiliation in the white world of hockey, this theme haunts the narrative.