The story starts with the main protagonist Arnold Spirit who lives in a reservation. Arnold talks about some of his birth defects such as inability to talk properly having to stutter and have lisp every time he speaks, having a giant head and feet, water on his brain, having 43 teeth which 10 were pulled out one day, and he is forced to wear glasses “ugly, thick, plastic ones”. Due to his appearance Arnold is often the attraction for bullying and at least once a month he would get beat up, he is part of the "Black-Eye-of-the-Month-Club". With his communication problem he likes to draw which he believes that unlike words people can understand pictures, he also feels that his only way out of the reservation is through
