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Legend of The Sugar Girl

This document provides instructions for an assignment analyzing Joseph Boyden's novel "Legend of the Sugar Girl". Students are asked to select at least 8 important quotes from the story and illustrate them in a sequential art format such as comics or storyboards. For each quote, students must write an explanation of why the quote is important, its context within the plot, and an analysis of its significance. The example provided analyzes a quote where the Sugar Girl learns from a doctor that she is pregnant and has diabetes, and the quote is used to illustrate the intergenerational trauma inflicted on Indigenous communities through the residential school system and reliance on an unhealthy diet.

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Legend of The Sugar Girl

This document provides instructions for an assignment analyzing Joseph Boyden's novel "Legend of the Sugar Girl". Students are asked to select at least 8 important quotes from the story and illustrate them in a sequential art format such as comics or storyboards. For each quote, students must write an explanation of why the quote is important, its context within the plot, and an analysis of its significance. The example provided analyzes a quote where the Sugar Girl learns from a doctor that she is pregnant and has diabetes, and the quote is used to illustrate the intergenerational trauma inflicted on Indigenous communities through the residential school system and reliance on an unhealthy diet.

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Legend of the Sugar Girl

First thing we acknowledge is misrepresentation. Joseph


Boyden has claimed Indigenous roots, but those roots have
been called into question. It is part of that delineation
between art and person. Between authenticity and
creativity.

Either way, “Legend of the Sugar Girl” is an important story


to tell, and how we utilize it is going to be a bit different.

We are going to create visual and textual representations


of the story. It can be in a variety of formats: illustrated quotes, comic book, graphic
novel style, storyboard, etc., things that use sequential art.

You will select (at least) 8 quotes from the story. They must be important to the story.

The quote will then be illustrated somehow. I know this is not art class and it will not be
treated as such. If they look nice, that’s a bonus, but
the bulk of mark is based on quotes. On a separate
sheet, not the back, you will list the quotes used,
explaining why the quote is important, its context
within the story, and an analysis of the quote.

Stick figures are okay, but if you use stick figures,


they must have hands and feet and faces. Remember
to be creative.

Ex. : “The white doctor informed her that not only was
she to have a baby but she had a disease…’Many of your people have this problem.
Your bodies can’t deal with the awful diet you subject it to. If you’re not careful, if you
don’t change your ways, it will kill you’” (170). This quote is a conversation between the
doctor and the Sugar Girl where she finds out about her pregnancy and her diabetes.
The doctor blames the awful diet ‘your people’ have, but fails to understand that diet is a
direct result of forcing children into the residential school. Sugar Girl’s family must move
to the reservation once the kids are gone and as a result become reliant on the
Hudson’s Bay Co and government for provisions, which in turn creates an unhealthy
diet. This is important in the grand scheme, because Sugar Girl believes a baby will ‘fix
her’ but it doesn’t and she falls back into old ways, and her is sent to residential school,
creating a cycle of abuse, reliance, and pain. This exists to this day, poor diet and a
reliance on processed, high sugar food, goes hand in hand with poverty.

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