The motivation of others can drive of forward to achieve our goals. It can also boost our self confidence and give us something to believe in. But that doesn’t always happen. People bring themselves down because they think they’re not good enough. They think that nobody will believe in them, that nobody with stand by them in the line of fire. But that’s not necessarily true. People always motivate their friends, teammates, even people they might not know. And that’s what keeps them going, and going, and going, until they’re reaching the stars. Someone believing in you and calling your name and hollering for you, is the best feeling in the world. It’s something that everyone needs. It might not always be what we want to hear, but we need it to shape us into the confident people we are. And who we are is what we want to be. …show more content…
In this novel, Junior is continuously tortured by anger, hate, sorrow, and pain. It follows him everywhere he goes. However with new opportunities at his new white school, Reardan, he gets way more motivation than he did at his home school on the the reservation, WellPinit. Wellpinit’s crowd ‘attacked” Junior with hurtful comments while he was walking into the gym. While in Reardan’s gym the crowd whooped and hollered for junior. That’s more than he’s ever gotten from anyone. His coach told him that he was going to be a starter, and he had to guard Rowdy. But Junior thought that he could never stop Rowdy. And his coach told him over and over again ti’ll Junior finally told him that he was going to do it. So that gave him the courage to go out and dominate the Redskins. This shows that you need people to believe in you so that you can believe in