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Compare And Contrast Keeper N Me And The Secret Lost In The Water
Keeper N me and The Secret lost in the water are two books about aboriginal children. They are both a bit different but equally interesting. In these books the characters struggle to accept who they are and sometimes in the end they don’t.

Keeper N me is a story about a young boy garnet who at the age of two gets taken away by social services. Later in life he gets into trouble by dealing drugs and this lands him in jail. While in jail his cousin starts sending him letters and when Garnet gets out he returns to his home White Dog. Garnet spent his whole life pretending to be anything but aboriginal and when he returned he was still unsure. Then Keeper came and helped Garnet accept who he was and get rid of the anger he held.

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