I was supposed to make a connection between the Adichie Ted talk and the benefit of reading through black spruce. I have read this paragraph many times but I am not sure if it will make sense to others.
Adichie uses different stories to share the core message of her speech. In through black spruce, a series of stories were told by two characters, Will and Annie, to share their experiences. The purpose of the TED talk is to encourage individuals to research more about the story they consume about other people and cultures. The author of through black spruce, Joseph Boyden, in this case, held the power to tell the story of the Cree family. Many Indigenous people have been discarded and dismissed in the history of Canada, just like how Adichie didn’t know “girls with skin the color of chocolate whose kinky hair could not form ponytails” could exist in literatures. The novel allows the readers to gain a better understanding of the love, death, and emotions of Canada’s Indigenous people. For instance, Boyden explores the family’s pain of Suzanne being missing. This targets the families of the missing Indigenous women and the importance of not forgetting the women.
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