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Barry is a friend of Mick’s and Cookie’s brother. He and Mick met when both were activists in the A.I.M. Although Mick quit after Cookie’s death, Barry stayed on. He and Mick remain friends until after Mick’s death, and Barry comes to the funeral where he gives Lisa deeper insight into her uncle’s life.
Barry Quotes in Monkey Beach
The Monkey Beach quotes below are all either spoken by Barry or refer to Barry. 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 2: The Song of Your Breath Quotes
“Cookie got kicked out of three residential schools. At the last one—guess she was fourteen then—this nun kept picking on her, trying to make her act like a lady. Cookie finally got sick of it and started shouting, ‘You honkies want women to be like cookies, all sweet and dainty and easy to eat. But I’m fry bread, bitch, and I’m proud of it.’” He laughed and shook his head “She always had to be right. When I was losing an argument and wanted to piss her off, I’d call her Cookie and it stuck.”
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At her Uncle Mick’s funeral, Lisa asks his old friend Barry about how Mick’s wife, Cookie, died. In response, Barry tells Lisa the story of how Cookie—whose real name was Cathy—got her nickname, which he relates in this passage. In a way, although Lisa won’t realize it for years, this does explain how she died; the book implies that she was murdered for her work as an activist with the A.I.M., where she, Mick, and Barry joined many other people in fighting for the rights of Indigenous Peoples throughout North America. Like Mick and Aunt Trudy, Barry and Cookie survived Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit neque odit. Tenetur qui dignissimos. Qui et ut. Voluptate la
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Barry Character Timeline in Monkey Beach
The timeline below shows where the character Barry appears in Monkey Beach. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1: Love Like the Ocean
...day, when Dad dropped her and Jimmy off at Mick’s and Mick had a visitor. Barry is an old friend from Mick’s A.I.M. days, trying to convince him to join “another...
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Chapter 2: The Song of Your Breath
Barry, Mick’s old A.I.M. friend, attends the funeral and reception. He invites Lisa to join him...
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Lisa asks how Cookie died, but Barry launches into the story of how Cookie, whose real name was “Cathy,” got her name...
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Barry starts to tell Lisa about his and Mick’s experience at Washington and the Trail of...
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