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How Did Junior Grow Up Into The Wild
Violence, poverty, and overcoming adversity as an Indian who grow up in a reservation and goes to a school 22 miles away from the reservation. This story is about a 14 year old boy who was born with too much hydrocephalus. Junior grow up on a reservation in Wellpinit. Junior has been beat up, made fun of, and has been even called a traitor because he left the reservation to go to a white school called Rearden high school outside of the rez. Even at Rearden junior was bullied because he was an Indian and the people at Rearden considered him dangerous so they verbally made fun of him. Junior has learned a lot throughout the novel like: standing up for himself, and that the people in the rez have given up, and that if you let people in to your

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