Assignment 10

• Why did Mr. P say, "Son, you're going to find more hope the farther and farther you walk away from this sad, sad, sad reservation"?

 The only thing the Indians got taught is to give up. He heas to take his hope and go somewhere other people have hope. So he doesn't lost his hope.

• Give 2 examples of "black comedy" in the book. Give quotes and page numbers.

 "Our dentist believed that Indians only felt half as much pain as white people did." Chapter 1

"And because you're Indian you start believing you're destined to be poor." Chapter 2

 

• Explain the significance of the use of drawings in the book.

He draws because words are too unpredictable and too limited, if you draw a picture everybody can understand it. He also draws because he wants to talk to the world and he wants the world to pay attention to him. So it is for the reader more easily to understand the book and imagine how it is.

 

• Explain how Arnold is caught between two worlds and how this is connected to the title of the book.

 He goes to school outside the reservation and lives in the reservation. This makes him believe he's a part-time Indian.

 

• How would you characterize the relationship between Rowdy and Junior at the end of the novel? Can the two ever really be best friends again? Are they part-time friends or real friends?

 Because of a fight the relationship was getting less more important but at the end the are friends but Junior is leaving them all so they will be part-time friends.

 

• While the Pow-wow sounds like fun, Arnold wants nothing to do with it. Why?

 He is afraid that they will hurt them, because maybe they get drunk when they dance and have fun.

 

• "Ever since the Spokane Indian Reservation was founded back in 1881, nobody in my family ever lived anywhere else. We Spirits stay in one place. We are absolutely tribal. For good or bad, we don't leave one another. And now my mother and father had lost two kids to the outside world."
  
  Explain how Arnold's parents had lost two children to the outside world.

 Arnold goes to a school outside the reservation and Arnold's sister, Mary, also leaves the reservation. For their parents is outside the reservation, outside the world. So they lost two kids out the outside world. 

 

• Mary describes her experience eating fry bread at a restaurant in an email to Arnold. Why is it significant that Mary can still get fry bread even though she's no longer on the Spokane Reservation?

 Because their grandmother always made fry bread.

• What does it mean to "kill the Indian to save the child"? [5.40]

You're supposed to make you give up being Indian. Your songs and stories and language and dancing. Everything you weren't trying to kill Indian people. You were trying to kill Indian culture.

 

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