“Miig stood, pacing his Story pace, waving his arms like a slow-motion conductor to place emphasis and tone over us all. We needed to remember Story. It was his job to set the memory in perpetuity…But every week we spoke, because it was imperative that we

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know. He said it was the only way to make the kinds of changes that were necessary to really survive” (25). This tradition of oral-storytelling has a long history, when all stories were passed down through generations. Why might these stories be particularly important to the characters in The Marrow Thieves? Do you have any stories passed down from your elders? Why might telling these stories be important to them?

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