Marrow Thieves

“She unfolded it halfway to tuck RiRi’s soft blankie inside and then folded it back over, her grief inside grief like the blankets themselves.” (Metaphor, p. 235)

Dimaline uses the metaphor of blankets to illustrate Wab’s grief. Wab has suffered significant trauma during her life. Because of this, she is fragile and unstable. The group must keep moving and they hardly have time to process their incredible grief due to the loss of RiRi and Minerva. Wab handles this by neatly tucking her grief away deep inside her, just like she tucks the blanket of one lost person into the blanket of another lost person, so that she is able to carry on.