ELA 20- Toronto at Dreamers Rock

Yesterday we talked about how Rusty has changed over the course of the play.



In the beginning, Rusty knows little about his Aboriginal culture. He shows little pride for his culture and he is lost. Keesic, the teen from the past, teaches that Odawa culture is about heart and language. He shows Rusty and Michael that Odawa culture is passed on through the language as many meanings can not be truly expressed through English. Rusty realizes the importants of his culture towards the end of the play. He is able to work through some of his confusion by talking with the people from the past and the present, and he learns to value his Odawa/Ojibway roots. He ends the play by singing a song in Odawa and thanking the creator; Meegwetch he says.