Character Analysis of April RaintreeApril Raintree is the main protagonist of the book In Search of April Raintree by Beatrice Mosionier. Throughout her childhood, she was embarrassed about being mixed race, and because she was interested in her mother's pale Irish skin and could blend in with white society, she hid her Aboriginal ancestry. Through her first adoptive parents, the Dions, were very kind to April. , this continued to allow April to feel accepted in society and she continued to hide her native heritage. She wanted to feel like a white kid, and they made her feel like one. After Mrs. Dion falls ill, April is placed with the DeRosiers. The DeRosiers were physically and verbally abusive to April and Cheryl. Throughout this period, April will continue to attempt to suppress as much of her birth heritage as possible. The DeRosier children continued to harass April by starting rumors about her and leading her life at school, and she was called "Gramma Squaw". Mrs. DeRosiers would make the situation worse by giving her clothes that were considered very ugly, and she wouldn't let April alter them by sewing things into them. It continues. April needs to become rich and important, and she says, "If I became so rich and important, people wouldn't care that I had a mixed race prod for a sister." This quote shows how she does not consider herself a proud Métis, or even a Métis. After April writes the Christmas story, incorporating things into her life while living with the DeRosiers, she transfers to St. Bernadette's Academy. At Sainte-Bernadette, she tells a very big lie. She tells all her friends that her parents died in a plane crash, this shows how much she still despises her heritage. Once April and Cheryl are released from their foster home...... middle of paper..... After she opens up to April, she leaves and never returns. After April and Roger desperately search for Cheryl, they search for several weeks and have no idea where she has gone. One evening, Cheryl's friend Nancy calls April and explains that she was going with her, but that she had left suddenly and thinks she is going to do something bad. April remembers Cheryl telling her how their mother committed suicide by jumping off the Louis Bridge. When they arrived at the bridge, a group of people said they saw a woman jump and kill herself about five minutes before they arrived. April learns more about what Cheryl went through when April looks at her journal. She discovers that she has a nephew named Henry Liberty. For the first time, April doesn't despise her indigenous lineage; it took the death of her sister for April to rediscover her identity.