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" My feet were a size eleven in third grade! With my big feet and pencil body, I looked like a capital L waking down the road. "

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"my thinking and breathing and living engine slowed down and flooded

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" You'd be wondering why you're reading a story written by a retard "
(Alexie, pg 4).

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" and whats more, our white dentist believed that indians only felt half as much pain as white people did,"  (Alexie 2).

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"after that, your stutter and lisp turn you into a retard. And if your're fourteen years old ,like me and your're still stuttering and lisping ,then you become the biggest retard in the world". (Alexie 4)

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" I Draw because words are too unpredictable "
" I Draw because words are too limited "
" quote from book" ( Alexie #5)

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pg 5 "still stuttering and lisping then you become the biggest retard in the world

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"our white dentist belived that indians only felt half as much pain as white people did"(alexie pg.2)

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i looked goofy on the outside but it was the inside stuff that was the worst.(alexie3)

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"so i draw because i want to talk to the world  an i want the world to pay attention to me" Pg 6

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" I draw all the time..
draw because words are unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited." ( Alexie 5 )

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"And then you start  believing that your stupid and ugly because you're Indian.""And because you're Indian you start believing you're destined to be poor."[Alexie 13]

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"It sucks to be poor and to feel that somehow you deserve to be poor." (13)

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"And then you start believing that you're poor because you're stupid and ugly because you're Indian." (Alexie 13)

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" a cartoonist" Alexie (7

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"...I am really just a poor-ass reservation kid living with his poor-ass family on the poor-ass Spokane Indian Reservation" (Alexie 7).

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he calls himself stupid,ugly

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"you'd be wondering why you're reading a story written by a retard"(Alexie 4).

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i know how it feels to be poor because i was poor when i was very little. quote from book(alexie13)

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"I am really just a poor-ass reservation kid living with his poor-ass family on the poor-ass Spokane Indian Reservation"  Pg 7

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"i wish i was magical,but im really just a poor ass reservation kid " pg9

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"It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor."[Alexie 13]

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" my parents came from poor people who came from poor people who came from poor people all the way back to the very first poor people" Pg 11

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..."i'm sorry, but we don't have any money for Oscar pg (alexie) 10

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"I looked like a giant uppercase L walking down the street." (3)

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" you start believing that you're poor because you're stupid and ugly." elexis PG 13

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"our white dentist believed that Indians only felt half as much pain as white people did, so he only gave us half the Novocain." (alexie 2)

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Some times in your life you will get knocked down and you just have to get back up and just deal with it.(alexie11)

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"A retarded person like me gets beat up at least once a month."

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"A retarded person like me gets beat up at least once a month."

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Richard

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"It's an ugly circle and there's nothing you can do about it" (Alexie 13)

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"It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you some- how deserve to be poor" ( Alexie 13).

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"So I draw because I want to talk to the world. And I want the world to pay attention to me. I feel important with a pen in my hand. I feel like I might grow up to be somebody important. An artist. Maybe a famous artist. Maybe a rich artist" (Alexie 6).

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"when you are poor you start to believe that you are stupid and ugly"

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""an artist, maybe a famous artist" (pg6)

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"And then you start believing that you're stupid and ugly because you're Indian." alexis PG 13

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"i wish i were magical, but i am very poor-ass family on the poor-ass spokane indian reservation"(alexie pg.7)

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"i think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats."#(Alexie#6)

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"It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor." (Alexie 13)

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"And whats more, our white dentist believed that Indians only felt half as much pain as white people did, so he only gave us half the Novocain" (2)

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And then you start believing that your're stupid and ugly because you're Indian" (Alexie 13).

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"every kid wants to go outside, but its safer to stay inside " pg(4)

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"Maybe a rich artist.""Thats  the only the only way i can become rich and famous." (Alexie 6)

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" Everybody on the rez calls me retard about twice a day" Pg 4

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" My head was so big that little Indian skulls orbited around it some of the kids called me orbit and other kids just called me globe " pg. 3

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"I heard the boom from my Fathers rifle as he shot my Best friend" 

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"I heard the boom from my Fathers rifle as he shot my Best friend" 

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Richard (pg #14)

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"Poverty = empty refrigerator + empty stomach" (Alexie 8)

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"I feel like I might grow up to be somebody important. An artist. Maybe a famous artist. Maybe a rich artist." (Alexie 6)

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"pg 8 soemtimes my family misses a meal and sleep is the only thing we have for dinner"

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"do you know the worst thing about being poor? oh, maybe you've done the math in your head and you figure: Poverty= empty refrigerator+ empty stomach." (Alexie 8)  

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"do you know the worst thing about being poor? oh, maybe you've done the math in your head and you figure: Poverty= empty refrigerator+ empty stomach." (Alexie 8)  

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brooke

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10 MORE THAN USUAL
10 MORE THAN NORMAL
10 MORE PAST HUMAN (alexie2)

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" My feet were a size eleven in third grade! With my big feet and pencil body, I looked like a capital L waking down the road. " Pg 3

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"Poverty doesn't give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance" (Alexie 13).

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"with my big feet and pencil body" alexie 3

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"Junior, sweetheart," Mom said. "I'm sorry, but we don't have any money for Oscar."  (Alexie 8).

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"My brain was drowning in grease." (Alexie 2)

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"i draw because words are to unpredictible"(pg5)

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"I was born with water on the brain." (Alexie 1)

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" Maybe a famous artist. Maybe a rich artist." ( page 6)

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" everybody on the rez calls me retarted at least twice a day" (alexie 4).

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"Given the chance, my father would have been a musician"(Alexie13).

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" I wish  i were magical but i am really just a poor ass reservation kid living with his poor ass family on the poor ass spokane indian reservation" quote from book
" ( Alexie #7)"

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..."muddy and disgusting and it only mucked up my works Alexie 1

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"My feet were a size eleven in third grade!"(Alexie 3)

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"I also had a stutter and a lisp." (Alexie 4)

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"i feel stupid and ugly"

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He wants to see correctly not lopsided quote from book(alexie 4 and 5)

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"That's the only way I can become rich and famous. Just take a look at the world. Almost all of the rich and famous brown people are artists". (Alexie 6)

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" i draw cartoons of my mother and father; my sister and grandmother; my best friend, Rowdy; and everybody else on the rez." (alexie #5)

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"you starting believing that you're poor because you're stupid and ugly." (alexie 13)

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57 "a vanishing past"

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"I get headaches because my eyes are, like enemies, you know, like they used to be married to each other but now hate each other's guts." (page 3)

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" And sure, sometimes, my family misses a meal, and sleep is the only thing we have for dinner" (Alexie 6).

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"or maybe i should say i had a st-st-st-stutter and a lissssssththththp"

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" i was born with too much cerebral spinal fluid inside my skull Alexie" 1

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" my head was so big that little Indian skulls orbited around it" pg(3)

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"There is nothing better then a chicken leg when you havent eaten for approximately eight and a half hours" ( Alexie 8 )

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"my brain was drowning in grease" (Alexie 2)

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"I want to talk to the world" (6)

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" I wish I were magical" (Alexi 7 ).

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"i want the world to pay attention to me"
pg.6

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"poverty = empty refrigerator + empty stomach" (alexie 8).

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"But we reservation Indians don't get to realize our dreams" (Alexie 13)

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"if your 14 like me and your still stuttering and lisping then you become the biggest retard in the world"(Alexie 4)

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"So obviously, I looked goofy on the outside, but it was the inside stuff that was the worst." (Alexie 4)

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"And I started wearing glasses when i was 3, so i ran around the rez looking like a three-year old Indian grandpa" (Alexie 3)

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"but i know sooner or later my parents will burst through the door with a bucktr of fried chicken." (alexie 8).

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"it sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor." (Alexie 13)

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"My brain was born with water on the brain" ( Alexie 2).

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"I wanted to hate him for his weakness" (Alexie 9).

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"It's an ugly circle and there's nothing you can do about it" ( Alexie 13).

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"sometimes, my family misses a meal, and sleep is the only thing we have for dinner" (alexie 8)

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"We indians really should be better liars, considering how often weve been lied to" ( Alexie

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"But we reservation Indians don't get to realize our dream" (Alexie 13).

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"You start believing that your poor because your dtupid and ugly."(13)

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"and because your Indian you start believing that you're destined to be poor"(Alexie 13)

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"And I am always the most available loser" ( Alexie 17).

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''it was like some kind of prison work farm for or liberal, white, vegetarian do-gooders and conservative, white missionary saviors''(Alexie 30)

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''Every kid wants to go outside. But it's safer to stay at home'' (pg 14)

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"it sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor. you start believing that you're poor because you're stupid and ugly." (Alexie #13)