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It is 1970, and Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield and Jacquie Red Feather are half-sisters, sharing their mother, Vicky. Opal’s name sits uncomfortably: it confuses her, and her classmates mock her. When Vicky comes home with a swollen face to another eviction notice, she announces they will move to Alcatraz. Opal packs only two outfits and her teddy bear, Two Shoes. On the bus, she asks Vicky why they are moving to the island, and Vicky explains about the Indians of All Tribes movement and reoccupation. Opal is used to Vicky’s mysterious, jumbled declarations.
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The first day, everyone eats beef stew around a bonfire, and Jacquie and Opal happily joke that they “could live like this” (49). Opal is shocked when they sleep on blankets in the old jail cells, however; no matter how unstable their lives were, they always stayed..
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Tommy Orange doesn’t make clear delineations between heroes and villains, good guys and bad guys—everyone in his story has a complicated past, and the traumas therein often lead them to make poor decisions. Get the entire There There LitChart as a printable PDF. 200 quotes from Tommy Orange: 'If you were fortunate enough to be born into a family whose ancestors directly benefited from genocide and/or slavery, maybe you think the more you don’t know, the more innocent you can stay, which is a good incentive to not find out, to not look too deep, to walk carefully around the sleeping tiger. Look no further than your last name.