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The Moon of the Crusted Snow is a book about the community, society of first nation.” The setting of novel is winter, snowstorm of Northern Ontario “Anishinaabe”. The protagonist of the story is Evan Whitesky who is from Anishinaabe community. He has keeping the traditional exactly what they are, like haunting moose, conducting tobacco. Also, he always takes advice and honour from the ancestor. He is courageous, he and his friends had protected his community and their family, when their community encounters difficulties.He make sure the people will not be panic and be scared and life in stable life in. “Evan and Tyler line up 800 cans of ham and peas, ready to pass them out.” (Chapter 24) Until the antagonist Justin Scott has joined community. He was selfish, arrogance. He had seized power among a faction of the community after, he forces his followers to hunt for food but takes most of it for himself as the winter progresses.”Meghan blurts out that Scott is horrible, he orders them around and threatens them Megan’s husband, Brad has fallen under his spellHe seems to be getting bigger, while the rest of them are getting thinner.”(Chapter23). Ithas exposed the other side humanity of Scott. For the plot map I had chosen some image to represent the story. At the beginning, I choose the snowfall, power outage, and the sign of the Anishinaabe and people gathering picture. It symbolizes when the community people have reconnecting together, help each other. Second, I had chosen a picture that the store was empty. It symbolizes people start panic and scared, “inside the store: people are avoiding eye contact with one another grabbing everything they can. Most of the shelves are empty. Evan walks through the store, only few things left (Chapter) Third I choose a picture of a man and shaking hand it symbolizes Justin has joined to community, after he join, he was being selfish, and weird When “Evan asks if they stole a body. Scott replies that it’s a matter of survival. “(Chapter 30). Last, I had chosen a picture of something were moving out and a gun. It symbolizes Scott was killed by the community because of his selfish. also, most of the community people moving out because everything has change since the first day Scott has joined the community. They can’t really recovery or get back to their original lifestyle. The theme of the novel is Anishinaabe traditional, the community has reconnecting together, with their traditional knowledge. Still the community has ceased to exist because the members disconnected from own culture because of the technology. Second survival, the community people haunting moose. Last Society and Community people gathering and help each other, As more people join in responds to moments of strife or an outside threat or an internal threat. Also, I narrate two symbols. Sage and Tobacco it represents first nation people’s collective loss of their indigenous tradition, and the blackout symbolizes the oppression and trauma that first nation people have endured since European settlers colonized the America. Lastly, for the tone of the story it has move from light and humorous to serious and tragic.