A scene I chose to close read is the scene where Saul’s brother is being taken by his family to go be buried in a catholic church and cemetery instead of being buried in the land of their family. In this scene, Saul’s older brother after being in the residential schools has seemed to have contracted tuberculosis, and has died out in their family’s land in the forest up north. There is a major conflict within the family as Saul’s parents wanted to take his brother to be buried by a catholic priest in a catholic cemetery, while his grandmother wanted him to be buried in the lands of their family, and in the ways of their culture and community. This scene can be extremely important to the text as a whole as this represents inner family conflict and intergenerational trauma, and abuse that follows from the residential school system towards Indigenous people. It first starts by demonstrating the lasting effects of abuse that are still within the Indigenous peoples who went to a residential school, and how relevant and persisting the eradication of their culture is. Saul’s parents won’t even consider having their son buried in the lands of their people because in their minds that’s not what’s right, that’s not what was taught to them. The Holy Spirit would be disappointed in them if their son did not have the proper catholic way of saying goodbye. Their Indigenous heritage, way of life, and culture has been erased from their brains, and is now starting to be implemented into their children, like Saul’s brother. This is significant to the text as it’s just one example of the intergenerational trauma that has happened to Saul’s family, and all Indigenous families, and we can later see it with Saul’s life as the abuse that he receives from the residential school system, and from his hockey career.