Month: June 2016

What I found most interesting thing in the book is that Junior isn’t accepted in neither Reardan nor Wellpinit. It interests me that he left his birthplace to explore the open world buy he isn’t accepted there even though he made a small group of friends in Reardan he wasn’t accepted by the community. However, the author used this occurrence to bring in a teaching about birthplaces and that if you leave them, they will almost always accept you back because you belong there and they know that really they can’t exile you from your birthplace because it will always be where you belong.

In this chapter Junior’s sister dies in a fire. And his dad picks him up from school after he runs from the teacher and he can’t stop laughing because he thought his dad had died as well on the icy roads. They have a wake where all of his cousin’s get drunk to honor a drunk couples death. And a funeral where Junior runs away into the forest to hide but he runs into rowdy and he’s crying because he thinks that by Junior leaving the rez he caused his sister to run off and end up dead.

“If you’d given me a room full of sober Indians crying and laughing and telling stories about my sister then I would of gladly stayed and joined them in ceremony.”I think this quote is important because it shows that Junior despises them being hypocritical and he’s showing that they don’t really care because so many people have died but he still does care.

Yes, but it is also about realising what white people have and what native Americans have, and that white people are so much better off with everything they need but native Americans struggle with simply getting to the next day.

I knew that none of them was going to college. Not one of them.

All of the guys on our team has iPods and cell phones and PSPs and three pairs of blue jeans and ten shirts and mothers and fathers who went to church and had good jobs.

The writer presents poverty in line a lion through repetition. This can be seen when he writes, “I knew that none of them was going to college. Not one of them. And he repeats “I know that.” He repeated I know to get across the point that Indians are less fortunate than white people in America.

In this chapter junior and his team play against wellpinnit and junior is interviewed by a sports guy. He reveals his feelings about the game and goes into it happy. Junior guards rowdy and mocks him do demoralize him. They win the game because of this, but Junior realises that Reardan gets everything and wellpinnit gets nothing in our and gives up hope.

This chapter is about how Reardan played wellpinnit for the second time.

Yes, but it is also about Junior realising what white people have and why native Americans have. And that white people are so much better off with everything they need but native Americans struggle with simply getting by to the next day.

Yes but it is also about beating the team they aimed for

Yes but it is also about Junior not being scared of rowdy

Yes but it is also about Junior believing in himself and overcoming personal difficulties

Yes but it is also about Junior inspiring other people

Wake is when people, after a funeral, celebrate the life of the dead.

1* I think Junior meant that Ted collecting their things is showcasing their lives to the rest of the public by saying ” Indians feel like insects pinned to a display board.”

2* It’s ironic that the old man got the origin of the powwow wrong because he’s collecting evidence to find out all about it but he still knows nothing about Native American culture.