P reveals, used to want to be a romance writer, but now spends all her time alone in the family’s basement-and the other adults in his life have done.īecause of Mr. Otherwise, the culture of defeat, depression, and alcoholism on the reservation will force him to give up his dreams, just as his older sister Mary-who, Mr. P comes to visit him and tells Junior he forgives him, but advises him that he must leave the reservation.
As a result, Junior is suspended from school. Suddenly furious that the reservation school is so poorly funded that it must use old and outdated books, Junior throws the textbook across the room-accidentally hitting Mr. P, passes out textbooks, Junior realizes that the books are at least thirty years old. On his first day of high school at Wellpinit (the school on the reservation), Junior is particularly excited for geometry class. Rowdy always protects Junior, though, and the two boys share a special bond, telling each other their secrets and dreams. He also loves spending time with his best friend, Rowdy, whose violent temper makes the other kids afraid of him. He loves to draw, and thinks his cartoons pose his best chance of getting off the reservation and out of the poverty that has held his family and his tribe back for generations. As a result, Junior has spent a lot of his time alone, reading or drawing cartoons.
This condition gave him a stutter, seizures, and a number of physical differences, such as a large head, that make him a frequent target for bullies on the reservation where he lives. Fourteen-year-old Junior, a Spokane Indian boy, was “born with water on the brain” or hydrocephalus.
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