On What Does Junior Blame Their Poverty?

Junior has had a tough life growing up.  He's a poor child and has little to look forward to as he believes that he and his family don't have a bright future.  Junior blames his poverty on his parents and his family's past history.  Junior has been tightly wound family that has dreams but the dreams never come true.  When you live on a reservation you have no future.  Junior thinks this because of his parents.  His parents had huge dreams, his dad a jazz musician and his mom a professor.  But in the end they couldn't make them come true.  Junior's family has been stuck on the reservations for generations and from his eyes there is no way out.

Junior's whole life has been revolved around the dreams and failures so much that now he believes that there is no way out.  "We're just poor, that's how we are."  Junior has seen so many bad things go on on the reservation.  Dreams collapse and best friends loss.  Junior has so much depression going on in his life that he really has just given up.  He believes that an Indian isn't made like a white person.  He has accepted this as part of his identity.  He has adopted this thought as a part of himself.  He has given up simply because he is a poor Indian.