Keeper N Me Garnet Character Analysis

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The book Keeper ‘N Me by Richard Wagamese has a main character, Garnet Raven. He is from White Dog First Nation (pg.5). Garnet is in his his twenties tall, slim not too thin, or not to big. His personality seems like he want it to be a mystery, doesn’t talk about his past too much. The biggest challenge that Garnet faces is that he doesn’t want anything to do with his past and, also he doesn’t want to be an Indian. “Mostly on accounta the indians I saw those years were pretty much the same kind my foster dad showed me in in the car that day. Scary looking dirty, drunk, fighting in the street and passed out in the the alley, and I’m sure I didn’t want to be connected to them in any way”(pg.22). Garnets foster dad told him that if you don’t listen

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