The song “I Got the Juice” by Dream Junkies in formatted by tricky wordplay and incredible use of these fire spitting rappers to convey a certain message. A message of hope and inspiration. One showing how these men who were lost have now found their own way and are running with it. Their way doesn’t exactly line up with what the culture today says about them but it shows how they have raised above the challenge of stereotypes and limits due to their race and social class and are now setting the way things work in the world. This reminds me of Arnold from the book “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian” by Sherman Alexie. He is forced right out of his mother’s womb to conquer the challenge of having “water on the brain” or to much
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This discovery caused the realization that the book belonged to his mother putting the book at the age of thirty at least. He started to connect the dots and noticed how poor the reservation was. So he smashed his teacher’s face with the book by accident and ended up getting suspended from school. During his suspension the same teacher who he had thrown the book at had asked if he could talk to him. This seemed very unusual to Arnold as all he thought was that this teacher wanted to kill him. But instead he wanted to actually confess that he had killed indians,but not literally. He says as teachers, “We were supposed to kill the indian to save the child”(Alexie pg.35) or in other words he had to make the students forget about their culture. Mr.P (the teach) had felt so bad for what he had done and knew it was too late to apologize to everyone he hurt so he apologized to Arnold instead. After that he had promoted him to change schools or he would die. Mr.P had told Arnold that he had hope and had to take his hope to other places that had hope as well. Arnold the next day had told his parents that he wanted to switch schools and go to Reardan as one of the first Indians to go to Reardan. This reminds of the line, “Graduated from a rebel to a revolutionary,” from the song “I got the Juice.” This line in its short text demonstrates how Arnold went from hitting teachers with books to going to a rich mainly white populated school which is very
This discovery caused the realization that the book belonged to his mother putting the book at the age of thirty at least. He started to connect the dots and noticed how poor the reservation was. So he smashed his teacher’s face with the book by accident and ended up getting suspended from school. During his suspension the same teacher who he had thrown the book at had asked if he could talk to him. This seemed very unusual to Arnold as all he thought was that this teacher wanted to kill him. But instead he wanted to actually confess that he had killed indians,but not literally. He says as teachers, “We were supposed to kill the indian to save the child”(Alexie pg.35) or in other words he had to make the students forget about their culture. Mr.P (the teach) had felt so bad for what he had done and knew it was too late to apologize to everyone he hurt so he apologized to Arnold instead. After that he had promoted him to change schools or he would die. Mr.P had told Arnold that he had hope and had to take his hope to other places that had hope as well. Arnold the next day had told his parents that he wanted to switch schools and go to Reardan as one of the first Indians to go to Reardan. This reminds of the line, “Graduated from a rebel to a revolutionary,” from the song “I got the Juice.” This line in its short text demonstrates how Arnold went from hitting teachers with books to going to a rich mainly white populated school which is very