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After reading this book, only thoughts and questions circle around my head. The way I saw this book could only be described as cold-blooded, vicious, and abusive. Progressing on with the story opened up new doors with more information containing the significance of aboriginal history in Canada. Saul, the main character in this story, is a young boy who wants nothing more in life but to be happy and have his family around him. The topic of family is very close to Saul because he grew up surrounded by the family until they had to be broken up when his brother was taken to a residential school. “I wondered what would become of us there. I wondered if the spirit, the monitous, of Gods Lake would look upon us with pity and compassion if we would flourish on this land that was ours alone.” This is what Saul has said, showing us that they vehemently despise the white people who had moved upon the Canadian land. I used different blood and barbed wire pictures to show how stuck, and depressed Saul was during his stay at the residential school.
During the middle of the story, Saul discovers his passion and talent in hockey, and he starts to play, as shown in the photo of the ice skates and hockey sticks. Photos of aboriginal carvings and a dream catcher are shown to represent Saul’s culture that is trying to be taken away from them. Indian Horse is a book about tragedy and hope; when there is darkness, there must always be light in the end. Pictures of sorrow would show how Saul felt. “Our people have rituals and ceremonies meant to bring us vision. I have never participated in any of them, but I have seen things. I have been lifted up and out of this physical world into a place where time and space have a different rhythm. I always remained within the borders of this world, yet I had the eyes of one born to a different plane. Our medicine people would call me a seer. But I was in the thrall of a power I never understood. It left me years ago, and the loss of that gift has been my greatest sorrow.” This quote shows us how the brutal world has taken an impact on saul, and this is just a start to his nightmare. Further along, the story goes, the worse Saul’s life goes on.