In this section of the novel, Rowdy and Junior reconcile over a discussion on how most Native American’s are no longer nomadic as their ancestors used to be, and the only nomadic person on the entire reservation was Junior. Knowing that he and Rowdy would part ways someday or another, Junior started tearing up. Rowdy tells him to stop crying and throws him a basket ball, and the two play until the sun sets. This illustrates the emotional side of Junior by showing that he often can’t control his feelings and emotions. Junior realizes himself that he can get emotional at times, and this can be seen on page (FILL IN THE PAGE WHEN YOU HAVE THE BOOK), where he says,” And that made me cry. Man, I’ve always cried too easily. I cry when I’m happy or sad. I cry when I’m angry. I cry because I’m crying. It’s weak. It’s the opposite of warrior”. The…
Nobody thought that it would be possible for an Indian to bring back a victory for Rearden, one of the many all white schools. Junior decided to transfer to Rearden and this decision turned many heads. Most of the Indians in the Reservation were extremely dishonoured by his choice and decided to seclude him from their community. Not only did he lose his community but, he also lost his only best friend Rowdy. Despite all that, Junior knew that it was best for him to leave all of this behind so that he can have a better future. Fighting through the verbal abuse that he faced at Rearden he decided to showcase his skills after joining their varsity basketball team. He travelled back to his hometown of Wellpinit to play his first game of the season…
First, the development of knowledge of a collective identity based exclusively on Reardan fosters Junior’s sense of insight of unity and purpose. As seen when Junior states, “We beat Wellpinit by forty points. Absolutely destroyed them.” (194) Junior identifies himself as a student who attends Reardan, who plays on the basketball team and not as a hopeless child on the reservation with the declaration of “we”. Junior’s insight of purpose was to defeat a part of himself (Wellpinit) in order to hope (Reardan). The loss of individual…
He is very sentimental and sensitive. He is afraid of being by himself in a new world. Not having Rowdy in Reardon High School, makes it a little bit harder for Junior because people will make fun of him and could also hurt him. On page 54 Junior says, “I’m scared dad.” Dad replied, “You can always go back to the Rez School.” Junior does not want to go back to the Rez School because he could get hurt and he also won’t be able to get a good education. Junior already made the decision of going to a different school and he was not going to give it up just because he was scared. Junior has conquered some of his weakness. An example in which show us that Junior has overcome one of his fears is when Roger made a racist comment about Indians. He said, “Did you know that Indians are living proof that niggers fuck buffalo?” Junior punched Roger in the face and then challenged him to fight but instead Roger walked away from Junior. This is a big achievement for Junior because this time he didn’t have to depend on Rowdy to help him out. Little by little, Junior is defeating his…
First of all, Rowdy and Junior have a complicated friendship. The reason they have a complicated friendship is because Junior tells Rowdy how he is going to transfer schools, from the rez school to Reardan. In that moment Junior doesn’t think that it is a very…
It happens to be a very hard task due to the fact that Rearden’s first basketball game happened to be against Wellpinit, the school on the rez. When Junior’s team arrives, he is booed and attacked. With a quarter splitting open his forehead, and then his old best friend, Rowdy, elbowing him in his very fragile head and giving him a concussion. Junior also tries his hardest to separate Arnold’s life from Junior’s life. As Arnold, he lies to his friends, claiming he is not poor and he has a normal life. Which could not be farther from the truth because Junior happens to be very poor and his life far from normal. When the truth rears its ugly head, Roger and Penelope do not turn away, but like him even more, and help him through his crisis. In the end, his two personalities come back to one, because his friends at Rearden know the truth about him, and Rowdy befriends Junior again.…
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In the beginning of the book Junior says, “Everybody on the rez calls me retard about twice a day. They call me retard when they are pantsing me or stuffing my head in the toilet or just smacking me upside the head.” (Alexie 4). All the people on the rez have a hard life most are really poor and hate white people. They take that hatred of what other people have done to them out on people or kids like Junior. When Junior leaves to go to a white school Rowdy starts to hate him too. He hates him for leaving. When Junior tries to comfort him Rowdy yells, “Don’t touch me, you retarded fag!” (Alexie 52). Rowdy has a hard life and he takes all his anger and hate out by beating other people up. He has always stuck up for Junior, but when Junior decides to leave he has nobody to be there for him. At the end of that chapter Junior says that Rowdy had become his worst enemy. Rowdy isn’t the only one who hates Junior for leaving, everybody on the reservation who already hated him now calls him a traitor and hates him more. Later in the book when Junior’s basketball team plays against the reservation’s team the whole crowd is yelling, “Ar-nold sucks! Ar-nold sucks! Ar-nold sucks!” (Alexie 143). By the end of the book Rowdy learns to love Junior again. He doesn’t outwardly express it, but he shows in in his own…
d. These men and women come back from war and hope there country will be there to help them, but instead they turning away from vets leaving them on their own with no medicical help.…
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PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a psychiatric disorder that can occur following the experience or witnessing of life-threatening events such as the military combat, natural disasters, terrorism incidents, or any major tragedy. This is common in the life of veterans and is the leading cause of suicide among veterans. A VA patient who survived in Baghdad shares his experience with PTSD and explains how he knew he had this disability. Many veterans speak out about this issue and describe their continuous anger, alcohol addiction, and constantly wanted to fight. They usually feel very isolated and distant from their loved ones. One patient states, “PTSD involves rocketing into extreme states of stress re-activity; in the form of terror, rage, and uncontrollable impulses, and plunging into equally extreme states of being shut-down—exhaustion, emotional numbing, despair, and dissociation”. PTSD is about having fear and anxiety, allowing veterans to rage with anger and different emotion. There are many factors to PTSD, which affects others in different ways; or example, using video games to keep them occupied, spending money due to the lack of impulse control because of changes in their brain, and even not obtaining another job.…
Attention Getter: I would like to start my presentation off by telling you all to ask yourselves a series of fairly straight forward questions. I want you to take a look at you’re, any hand and ask your selves “Who’s hand is this?” Do the same with your other hand, and now both legs and your arms if you would like. If I am not mistaking the answer to all your questions are mine right. They are your hands, legs, and arms. What I am trying to get through to you all today is that your body is your body and that a person should be able to profit of his or her own body if done in a safe and controlled way.…
iii. Head start - Finally many times upper level foreign language classes, such as some of the ones here at Kickapoo, can be dual-credit. A lot of colleges require a foreign language to graduate so this means not only can it help get you through the door.....but also out. You could fulfill your language requirement for your COLLEGE degree, before you even are in your freshman year.…