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"And what more,our white dentist believed that Indians only felt half as much pain as white people did, he gave us half the novocain"(Alexie 2) . That is a  stereotype because it says indian  feel have  the pain as white people.

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"you've been fighting since you were born, you fought brain surgery. You fought off those seizures. You fought off all the drunks and drug addicts . You kept your hope. And now you have to take your hope and and go somewhere where other people have hope."(Alexie 43). This answers EQ 1 because it shows how keeping hope helped junior survive and get through all his hardships.

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"i knew that my best friend had became my worst enemy"(Alexie 53).
Junior was really upset that Rowdy didn't want to be his friend anymore since he was leaving.

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"He was watching me walk away. And I could see the sadness in his face." (Alexie 103)

Jr. and Rowdy still miss each other but rowdy is still mad at him.

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"My sister is running away to get lost, but I'm running away because I want to find something" (Alexie 46)

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"It was my dream, too and Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that and white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big either" (Alexie 112). It is showing how where they are from defines who they basically are and what they can and can't do so they think they're restricted to certain limits because of how they grow up and where they are from.

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"So I drew a cartoon of me and Rowdy like we used to be." (Alexie102)
This shows that Junior has hope that him and Rowdy will become friends again

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" I wanted to hate mom and dad for our poverty. I wanted to blame them for my sick dog and for all the other sickness in the world." (Alexie 11) He wanted to hate his parents for not having enough money to take Oscar to the vet.

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"I would have been pummeled, mutilalted, crucified. You can't just betray your tribe and then change your mind." Once you leave your group/community it is very unlikely that you will be welcomed back.

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"...that my sister's spirit hadn't been killed... This reservation had tried to suffocate her... and now she was out roaming the huge grassy fields of Montana" (Alexia 91). This relates to EQ 1 because it shows that Junior's sister had had hope, and it had helped her overcome the stereotype that Indians cannot follow their dreams, let alone have dreams

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"Your're going to find more and more hope the farther and farther you walk away from this sad, sad, sad reservation (Alexie 43)." This quote showed the father you go the more hope you'll find, saying that the reservation has near to no hope and the people that have hope should go and follow.

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"you kept your hope. And now, you have to take your hope and go somewhere where other people have hope."  (Alexie 43)

Mr.P encouraged Junior to leave so he could live his dream and still have hope in his life, Mr.P cares about Junior and only wants the best for him and thats why he wants Junior to leave, also he doesn't want Junior to die on the rez without hope

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"... three guys jumped me... mostly they just wanted to remind me that I was a traitor." (Alexie 11). This answers EQ 2 because the guys that jumped Junior have cultural identity towards being a Native American and feel delegated to their school/tribe and they believe Junior betrayed them.

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"We all have pain and we all look for ways to make the pain go away" (alexie 107). This shows how we  deal with a death (pain) from a loss of ourselves or a friendship that was betrayed. But as Junior was saying that we all have it and aren't immune to it, we just take it out and deal with it in our own ways

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"You just can't betray your tribe and then change your mind ten minutes later" (Alexie P55) since Junior decided to go to the "white people" everyone thought he was betraying his tribe/ community.