Saul used the game of hockey to protect himself throughout most of the book, especially through his stay at St. Jerome's residential school. However, to many kids who were sent to residential schools in real-life, they didn't have anything to run to for protection. They were abandoned and abused with nothing to turn to. In the story, Saul's stay at the residential school didn't seem as bad compared to the other Indigenous kids. This leaves me to wonder how bad residential schools really were?

Indian Country Today. “6,000 Kids Died in Residential Schools:” IndianCountryToday.com, Indian Country Today, 2 June 2015, newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/archive/6-000-kids-died-in-residential-schools-G7hg1ruABE69s99UZxMiWA/.

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