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Karaoke (Adelaine Jones)
Aunt Kate is Ma-ma-oo’s and Ba-ba-oo’s oldest daughter; sister to Uncle Mick, Aunt Trudy, and Dad; and mother to J.J. and Erica. Unlike Trudy and Mick, she missed residential school because she was already independent at the time they went. She judges Aunt Trudy harshly for her poor mothering skills and her maladaptive response to the traumas she suffered.
Aunt Kate Quotes in Monkey Beach
The Monkey Beach quotes below are all either spoken by Aunt Kate or refer to Aunt Kate . 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 1: Love Like the Ocean
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Ba-ba-oo had lost his arm in the Second World War, at Verrières Ridge. When he came home, he couldn’t get the money he thought he should get form Veterans Affairs because they said Indian Affairs were taking care of him. Indian Affairs said if he wanted the same benefits as a white vet, he should move off reserve and give up his status. If he did that, they’d lose their house and by this time, they had three children and my dad, Albert, was on the way.
“Geordie and Edith helped as much as they could,” Mick had told me […] “But they had their own family. My father worked hard all his life, and now he would say things like, ‘Agnes, I’m useless.’ She didn’t know what to do.”
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Aunt Kate Quotes in Monkey Beach
The Monkey Beach quotes below are all either spoken by Aunt Kate or refer to Aunt Kate . 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 1: Love Like the Ocean
Quotes
Ba-ba-oo had lost his arm in the Second World War, at Verrières Ridge. When he came home, he couldn’t get the money he thought he should get form Veterans Affairs because they said Indian Affairs were taking care of him. Indian Affairs said if he wanted the same benefits as a white vet, he should move off reserve and give up his status. If he did that, they’d lose their house and by this time, they had three children and my dad, Albert, was on the way.
“Geordie and Edith helped as much as they could,” Mick had told me […] “But they had their own family. My father worked hard all his life, and now he would say things like, ‘Agnes, I’m useless.’ She didn’t know what to do.”
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