Apple: Skin to the Core

Nonfiction | Memoir in Verse | YA | Published in 2020

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Part 1-Part 2, Poem 24

Part 2, Poems 25-44

Part 2, Poems 45-60

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Eric Gansworth details the impact of ongoing white colonialism against Indigenous groups in the US and Canada. Research the history of colonialism, focusing particularly on the residential school system and the reservation system. Write an essay detailing your findings, citing your references.

Apple draws heavily from the discography of The Beatles. Does this choice enrich the text? Why or why not? Reference the book’s themes when developing your answer.

Several poems in this memoir discuss names and nicknames. Develop this motif further in an essay. Why are names significant for Gansworth? How does the motif of names contribute to the memoir’s themes?