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Vera is George’s wife and Clara’s friend. She’s also a spiritual daughter of Mariah, and it’s through her work that Clara finds her way to Mariah’s cabin. Along with George, Vera represents the kind of life that Lucy, Clara, Maisie, and others should have been able to have—happy, stable, grounded—but were denied by the abuse they suffered in the residential school system.
Vera Quotes in Five Little Indians
The Five Little Indians quotes below are all either spoken by Vera or refer to Vera. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 8: Clara
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She didn’t have to call [John Lennon] this time. With the car back in order after the border pillaging, Clara walked around toward the driver’s door and that was enough for him to know. He ran to her through the purple flowering weeds, tongue lolling and happy. Weeds. She remembered George telling her once that Indians were like weeds to the white people. Something to be wiped out so their idea of a garden could grow. He told her weeds were indigenous flowers. “Clara, you’re an indigenous flower. Don’t ever think of yourself as a weed.” That’s what he said to her.
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Vera Quotes in Five Little Indians
The Five Little Indians quotes below are all either spoken by Vera or refer to Vera. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 8: Clara
Quotes
She didn’t have to call [John Lennon] this time. With the car back in order after the border pillaging, Clara walked around toward the driver’s door and that was enough for him to know. He ran to her through the purple flowering weeds, tongue lolling and happy. Weeds. She remembered George telling her once that Indians were like weeds to the white people. Something to be wiped out so their idea of a garden could grow. He told her weeds were indigenous flowers. “Clara, you’re an indigenous flower. Don’t ever think of yourself as a weed.” That’s what he said to her.
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