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Zheegwon
An overweight nine-year-old boy in Frenchie's family. Slopper exists in a space between child and adult—he heard Story at age seven and is therefore aware of the danger in the world, but he still clearly wants to remain a child. He's happy to play with RiRi and excuse himself from hearing Story, and he's not yet allowed to hunt with the rifle. He thrives on small comforts and loves food. Slopper begins to come into himself after Minerva's death, when the Council puts him in charge of forming a youth council to passing along all the cultural knowledge that the resistance group collectively possesses.
Slopper Quotes in The Marrow Thieves
The The Marrow Thieves quotes below are all either spoken by Slopper or refer to Slopper. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Rogarou Comes Hunting
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"But why? Aren't these supposed to make noise?" Slopper was confused. We'd been told over and over that silence was the only way to move out here, the only way to stay alive.
It was Chi-Boy who answered, out of character. "Sometimes you risk everything for a life worth living, even if you're not the one that'll be alive to live it."
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Kiiwen
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We were desperate to craft more keys, to give shape to the kind of Indians who could not be robbed. It was hard, desperate work. We had to be careful we weren't making things up, half remembered, half dreamed. We felt inadequate. We felt hollow in places and at certain hours we didn't have names for in our languages.
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Slopper Quotes in The Marrow Thieves
The The Marrow Thieves quotes below are all either spoken by Slopper or refer to Slopper. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Rogarou Comes Hunting
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"But why? Aren't these supposed to make noise?" Slopper was confused. We'd been told over and over that silence was the only way to move out here, the only way to stay alive.
It was Chi-Boy who answered, out of character. "Sometimes you risk everything for a life worth living, even if you're not the one that'll be alive to live it."
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Kiiwen
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We were desperate to craft more keys, to give shape to the kind of Indians who could not be robbed. It was hard, desperate work. We had to be careful we weren't making things up, half remembered, half dreamed. We felt inadequate. We felt hollow in places and at certain hours we didn't have names for in our languages.
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