Rose's Run Chapter Summary

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Rose’s Run by Dawn Dumont is an excellent book that is about a character named Rose Okanese who has to tackle many life problems after her husband cheats on her as well as leaves her and her two daughters. This book takes place in a reserve located in Saskatchewan in modern day Canada. The author did a fantastic job at describing every little detail in the scenes which really helps the reader imagine what was in the setting. One good example of a description is “Rose stood on her front steps looking at the moody sky. Nightfall was coming on and she was dreading it.... But she could feel this. A dark humidity, spreading through the reserve, clogging the air and making it hard to take full breaths...” This description helped build a spooky mood …show more content…

One trait is that she is irresponsible which was shown when she got fired from her job at the pig farm for being late way too many times. Furthermore, she was depressed because her husband has cheated and left her alone with her two daughters with no job and car. Moreover, she is very strong, she has gotten into multiple fights throughout the story and she has always won them. Rose has a very good relationship with people she is close with such as her best friend Winter but she also has bad ones too such as Michelle, the girl that her husband cheated with. I would like to be friend as well as be her because she is an interesting and compelling …show more content…

The most used style was colloquial diction. The main slang word that was used throughout the story was rez which meant reserve and was mostly said by Rose. This shows that Rose was not well educated which is understandable due to the poor education in reserves. One example of imagery used in the story is, “Fast walking transitioned into a jog that kept picking up speed until she was racing down her approach. The house was growing in front of her and in less than a minute she’d be on the stairs.... Rose didn’t want to look but had to. She turned her head and saw a shape standing on the gravel road behind her. She found another gear and kept going.” This helped the reader imagine what was going on as Rose was training and had her first encounter with the

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