Junior's Conflicts

Junior faces many conflicts, Junior was stuck between two different groups of people. Junior lives in the Indian reservation, yet goes to school in an all white town. His friends at the reservation abandoned him and he's forced to make new relationships at school. He joins the basketball team that plays against the reservation. During a game, “The rez basketball fans were chanting ‘Arnold sucks! Arnold Sucks! Arnold Sucks!’” By this he becomes stronger and overcomes and beats the reservatioin. He finds his place in the reservation and at school, by knowing that he can be part of both. As he says “I realized that, sure, I was a Spokane Indian. I belonged to that tribe. But I also belonged to the tribe of American immigrants. And to the tribe of basketball players…” …show more content…
“I realized that, sure, I was a Spokane Indian. I belonged to that tribe. But I also belonged to the tribe of American immigrants. And to the tribe of basketball players…”
He doesn't only live in a Indian reservation, or go to school in a white town, but he also plays basketball and draws cartoons, is a son, a teenager, and misses people. It just says how you are never alone and that there are other people like