Night of the Living Rez Themes & Motifs

Morgan Talty
This Study Guide consists of approximately 90 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Night of the Living Rez.
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Night of the Living Rez Themes & Motifs

Morgan Talty
This Study Guide consists of approximately 90 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Night of the Living Rez.
This section contains 2,244 words
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Race

Race plays a crucially important role in Night of the Living Rez, and is indeed baked into the very nature of the collection’s setting; its characters live on the Penobscot reservation in Maine, and are separated from Overtown, a predominantly white community across the river from the reservation, by nothing more than a bridge. Though the residents of the reservation and the residents of Overtown live in close proximity to each other, and frequently interact, there is still a stark divide between the two communities in terms of wealth, money, access, and privilege. That the structure of the setting incorporates a literal gulf between the two worlds is not insignificant; the separation the characters on the reservation feel from the community of Overtown informs a great deal about their actions and psychologies.

Race also plays an important part in the relationships that the characters of...

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