Lecture 7.2.3 - Chapter 12: Prep and Partial Reading
Lecture Overview
In this lecture, we will begin with revisiting Chapter 11 before we continue to read Chapter 12.
Review: Chapter 11 - St. Jerome’s school is a nightmarish place.
With its grim atmosphere and no privacy. It stands in contrast to almost everything Saul loved about his old home. The teachers at St. Jerome’s school are supposedly pious Christians, but as Saul describes them they don’t seem interested in the Christian virtues of charity, mercy, or compassion. Rather, they’re focused on one thing: teaching small Indigenous children that their culture is worthless and evil. The treatment of the boy Lonnie is an example. The significance of hair. One could easily argue (and plenty of people have) that the Canadian government’s policy of sending Indigenous children to schools like this constituted cultural genocide.