The Outside Circle Pete Character Analysis

Have you ever wondered what some of the problems a young Indigenous man faces? During this book, The Outside Circle Pete (a troubled young Indigenous man) faces many defining moments (LaBoucane-Benson, The Outside Circle). Pete gets his girlfriend pregnant, His younger brother Joey gets beat up, and Pete becomes an Elder (LaBoucane-Benson, The Outside Circle). Pete changes in a very positive way from all that has happened throughout the novel.

In the beginning of the book, Pete gets his girlfriend Crystal pregnant (LaBoucane-Benson, The Outside Circle). Crystal tells Pete she’s pregnant and when she does he kicks her out of his car (LaBoucane-Benson, The Outside Circle). Pete is angry about this as seen by his masks in panels 4-5 at about 4 pages into the novel. He is angry because he thinks Crystal is sleeping around and it isn’t his kid she’s carrying (LaBoucane-Benson, The Outside Circle). This moment impacted Pete to change in a very mature way (LaBoucane-Benson, The Outside Circle). Pete gets his life together after he is put
Pete is involved in a gang of drug dealers before he gets sent away to the warrior program he is now when they call him up and ask him to continue Pete tells them to “Piss Off”(LaBoucane-Benson, The Outside Circle). When he does this they rebel and beat up Joey and hospitalize him (LaBoucane-Benson, The Outside Circle). Pete feels angry because Frank (the gang leader) did this to Joey in hopes to get Pete back into his old lifestyle (LaBoucane-Benson, The Outside Circle). Pete shows that he is upset by shedding his tears in panels 5-8 (LaBoucane-Benson, The Outside Circle). This moment impacts Pete to change by making him realize what his lifestyle was doing to his younger brother, and gets him to clean himself up to end that lifestyle and get out of the drug dealing business (LaBoucane-Benson, The Outside