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

It relates to the EQ because mr.p has hope in junior to go to another school.

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At school today I went dressed as a homeless dude it was pretty easy for me because there is not much differance from my good and bad clothes
CULTURAL IDENTITY

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"Where is hope? I asked. Who has hope" (Alexie 43).

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"My all time record is five wins and one hundred and twelve losses" (Alexie 62).
This shows how he is brave and has hope that he will sometime become good at fighting and start to win them more. EQ #1

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"But that money and the idea of giving it to the poor people had made me feel pretty good about my self. I was a a poor kid  raising money for poor people

This shows that Junior helps people and feels good about that and he didn't us the money for himself but for others

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"Those white kids couldn't believe their eyes. They stared at me like I was bigfoot or a UFO." (Alexie 56) His skin will restrict him from making friends and getting along with people who don't like him because of his skin.

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"Those white kids couldn't believe their eyes. They stared at me like I was bigfoot or a UFO." (Alexie 56) His skin will restrict him from making friends and getting along with people who don't like him because of his skin.

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EQ #2

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EQ 1- "I realized how much of my  self worth, my sense of safety was based on Rowdy's fists."

This shows hope for Junior because he is becomming less dependent on others and realizing he is important one way or another.

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"I am a zero on the rez and if you subtract zero from zero, you still have zero."(Alexie 16)

This quote shows that Junior doesn't have much hope for himself or his future because he thinks so lowly of himself.

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"...thought I was a brave little dude for going to a white school... People who just called me names and slammed the door in my face" (Alexie, 79). People assume Junior is bad news because he's Native American so they wouldn't give him money for homeless people.

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"reardan was the opposite of the rez. It was the opposite of my family . It was the opposite of me."

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"You're going to find more and more hope the farther you walk away from this sad, sad, sad reservation" (Alexie 43).

Mr. P is giving Junior hope and making him more confident in himself. Mr. P wants Junior to have a better education

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I don´t know if hope is white. But I do know that hope for me is like some mythical creature (Alexie 51). For Junior hope is really rare but for white people hope is pretty common.

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"But Rowdy still respected  my cartoons. And so maybe he still respected me a little bit" (Alexie 103).

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"All these kids have given up...All your friends. All the  bullies. And their mothers and fathers have given up...We're all defeated." (Alexie 42)

The people who give up hope stay in a place where they don't want to be. (EQ #1)

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"Feeling almost like a human being..." (Alexie, 72)
Once Junior has a little moment of appreciation from others, he gains hope into feeling he's "like a human being", as if he wasn't before.

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"you cant betray your tribe and then change your mind " (Alexie  55 )

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"We were supposeed to be happy with our limitations. But there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope." (Alexie Sherman 112) This shows that Junior and Penelope want to succeed in life and get a good job even because of there limitations of cultural identity

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"And then you start believing that you're stupid and ugly because you're Indian. And because you're Indian you start to believe you're destined to be poor" (Alexie 13).
When Junior lists all these characteristics about himself in which he thinks these characteristics defy him by, he doesn't want to overcome his problems and change who he is as a person. He lacks hope in who he is as a person and what he wants to do with his life. EQ #1

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"And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that" (Alexie 112)
Junior wants to be big & concur his big dreams he has but he says Indian boys aren't suppose to be like that, he's trying to overcome his stereotype.

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I knew it: all of those kids knew it. Indians don't deserve shit. (Alexie 56)

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"Then I put on my coat and shoes, and then walked over to Rowdy's house." This is EQ #4 because he missed his best friend.

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" Son, you're going to find more hope the farther you walk away from this sad reservation"(Alexie 43)

This gives junior hope by Mr P. telling junior he has ha chance to get a good education if he leaves the reservation

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"I was so depressed that I thought about crawling into a hole and disappearing."
(Alexie 15)
It relates to hope grief because he was grieving for his dead dog.

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"You start believing you are poor because you are stupid and ugly, and then you start believing you are stupid and ugly because you are indian, then you start believing you are destined to be poor"  (Alexie, 13)

This quote represents eq 3 because that's the way junior believes he became apart of his community

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You won't give up. You threw that book in my face because somewhere inside you refuse to give up

This quote shows that Mr.P wants to give hope to Junior so he can leave the rez

Angel Hernandez