Razor's story is a revelation partly of the constant physical risk he faced as an orphan and partly of the abuse he suffered from being "Injun" at a time when discrimination against Native Americans was practiced openly by many. Combining those two ideas I believe Peter Razor's central idea was to unmask the unfairness that the children in the program were drowning in to deal with. His past and present connected the reader to conclude a cause and effect throughout the story. Telling throughout the story how many mistakes the State government had made with a living, breathing human life. At the end of the story the reader finds out of his mental disorders from years of physical and emotional abuse, and if only the legal records were written
