“I refused to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant. I was lucky.” The impact of this quote tells us how he knew he was smart, and lucky. The young indians were thought of to be dumb, and were treated differently, but he stood up, he knew he was smart, he knew that being able to read and being able to have an education made him lucky. The meaning of the quote is very similar to the explanation, because what the quote is saying is that he knew that he was all those things. No one had to tell him that he was, and if someone told him that he wasn’t then they were wrong.
He wants the readers to know about how they were treated, and were suppose to be dumb, and that the majority of them just gave up. He wants us, the readers, to know that he was one
He wants the readers to know about how they were treated, and were suppose to be dumb, and that the majority of them just gave up. He wants us, the readers, to know that he was one