Through Black Spruce Summary

Through Black Spruce The book, Through Black Spruce, begins with Will explaining who he is and that he is a famous bush pilot from the town of Moosonee. In the second chapter, it explains he is telling the story of his past, meanwhile in the present he is in a coma. This book focuses on one major event that his niece Susan ran away and has disappeared with a Netmaker boy, Gus. While walking home from his friend Joe's house he is stopped by Marius Netmaker and two others. Marius and his friends are drunk and start yelling at him and asking where his niece went to with Gus. They beat up Will to the near point of death, threatening to kill him. While this is all happening, Annie went south in search of her sister Susanne. Turns out Her sister became a model and was last seen in Toronto. When Susan goes to Toronto she gets attacked by a man and almost gets raped, but luckily another person comes out of nowhere came to fight the rapist off and stabs him too …show more content…
This Canadian novelist and short story writer has written four novels Three Day Road (2005), Through Black Spruce (2008), The Orenda in (2013), and his most resent Wenjack in (2016), three Non-fiction books, From Mushkegowuk to New Orleans: A Mixed Blood Highway (2008), Extraordinary Canadians: Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont (2010), and Kwe: Standing With Our Sisters (2014), and one short story “Born With a Tooth” (2001). Joseph Boyden’s writing style in Through Black Spruce is very different as it is told by two different narrators who alternate telling their side of the story each chapter. Using this way of story telling the author has many instances of foreshadowing between both stories. He uses mostly informal language through out this story, and is definitely not afraid of throwing out a few swears every so often. The main influences of the story were the Ojibwe people and native people in