The advice Mr. P gives to Junior (on page 42) is that he should leave the reservation. I believe this is very good advice to give to an Indian child living in this environment because of all of the people he sees give up around him every day just because they were born into the circle of poverty. A quote given by Mr. P says "The only thing you kids are being taught is how to give up. Your friend Rowdy, he's given up. That's why he likes to hurt people. He wants them to feel as bad as he does."
The reason he gave Junior this advice is because he is one of the only people on the reservation who has not given up hope. There is a quote on page 43 where Mr. P is explaining this to Junior "'But not you' Mr. P said. 'You can't give up. You won't give up. You threw that book in my face because somewhere inside you refused to give up.'" Mr. P also says that Junior is one of the smartest kids on the reservation and that he's the only one who has a chance. Mr. P mainly gave Junior the advice because he does not want him to turn into the rest of the people on the reservation. He wants Junior to make it in life.
Question: Do you think Junior should leave the reservation to find hope?
Yes, I think Junior should definitely leave the reservation. The only thing that is holding him back is Rowdy since they are best friends and how his family can't afford a rich school. Leaving the reservation will help Junior escape the cycle that he's stuck in. Mr. P is right that everyone in the rez has given up and because he believes in Junior he's telling him to leave. Junior should take the advice and try to get into Reardan. Going to a rich school out of the rez will make him better educated and he can have a bright future. The thing is how will his family be able to get the money for Junior to go to Reardan if they're in poverty? What do you think Junior has to do to be able to pay for tuition?
ReplyDeleteJunior should leave the reservation because as Junior's parents said white people have the most hope, and this is a way for Junior to get opportunities with his creative mind and drawings. However, the other Indian kids in the rez will be very mad, and even possibly Rowdy could get mad. If Junior loses Rowdy, Junior will have no help when he is at the rez. But, if Rowdy is no longer Junior's friend will Junior lose hope? Also, Reardan is a rich white school with races police officers, and will being at a all white school affect Junior's opportunities and hope? Is it even worth getting beat up even more? The outcome of Reardan will give Junior hope, but will the rez make the situtation worse?
ReplyDeleteI think that Junior should leave the rez so that he can find hope. Junior needs hope in his life and nobody around him, even his parentes have any hope.Going to Reardan is the only chance that he has of hope. Even if that means getting beaten up at the Rez. Also I think that Mr. P is 100% right when he says that the only place to find hope is outside of the Rez. The Rez is a bad place where everyone has given up. Junior is a special kid who has real potential. By going to the new school, and by leaving that Rez, he will be able to live up to his potential and actually be somebody. Even though Rowdy is holding him back, I think that he should still go with or without him. I say this because Rowdy might actually hold Junior back a bit. Do you think that it would be better or worse if Rowdy came with Junior to his new school outside of the Rez?
ReplyDeleteI think it is a "no-brainer" for Junior to leave the rez (if he wants to find hope, that is). Everyone on the rez has given up, so they want him to give up as well so that he knows how they feel. I actually think it would be worse if Rowdy came with him. Rowdy is the epitome of another drunk, given-up Indian in the making. Rowdy is friends with Junior because he tries to hold on to his last shred of hope. But he is already too far gone to help Junior in Reardan. He would just drag him down and prevent him from accomplishing his already difficult enough goal of gaining someething in life.
DeleteI think that this would be a great opportunity for Junior to get a start on life. I feel like this change would more mentally open up opportunities instead of physically changing his life and where he stands. What is really stopping him from doing amazing things is himself. He's hiding his talents behind a theory that has been keeping indians cooped up in reservations for years. I think this would really help change Junior's opportunities but i dont know if he could leave. He has grown up in the rez. for his whole life and will he really just leave it now? And what about his best friend Rowdy, he needs Rowdy and Rowdy needs him. Could he actually leave his best friend and his childhood behind?
ReplyDeleteI think Junior should leave the Rez to find hope. In the Rez, many poor kids go to a low education school with old books and low life's who beat up young children. Mr.P gives him the advice to leave because he has seen every wise student of his fail and give up. Mr.P explains to him that he can't watch that again. Hope is in a stronger education in a poor town. Will it be a struggle to switch schools?
ReplyDeleteI believe that for Junior to leave the reservation is an obvious choice, but not to find hope. I think Junior has hope more than he would in a white school. For him to leave would be to accomplish his hope or at least start to. Mr. P says he would find white kids with hope but I feel as if white kids would have less hope because they have less to gain. It will be a struggle to leave but when he does he won't need hope. Do you think Junior can leave it all behind before he losses all hope?
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