I think that this is right for Arnold but for me I think are books even if I like mangas more important because you can be much more spellbounded to a book.

I think you can´t read to many books and this quote was meant ironically because there is basicly nothing bad at reading books so you can´t read to many books. And every book makes you a bit smarter.

That´s again wright for Arnold because he draws himself and he can impress himself with the cartoons but for me I think they aren´t so important.

That can be real. Sometimes you can´t as much as a picture or cartoon says. Sometimes you must see it to understand. E.g. a war- you can describe it and say what happened but when you see a picture of the battlefield or of wounded and dead people that would say much more.

I like that. I´m a fan of always scribbling somthing. Mr. P. says that about Mary and i can understand it. It´s the best activity for school or so because it´s creativ and makes (me) a lot of fun.

Is the 14 years protagonist of the story. He is a smart but also wicky and crazy little indian who livs in a rez. He likes to draw cartoons and is also a good basketballplayer.

He is an alcoholic but a alcoholic which does the best that he can for his children and trys to support them. He also helps Junior to get a bit courage for playing basketball.

Once she was a drunk but only was. She is smart and a very good reader and can memory information for a long time. After the grandma dies she gets scared and depressed but still wants the best for her children. She wants that Junior never drinks alcohol.

She is Junior´s older sister and a talented writer who runs away everytime. She is also a bit crazy like Arnold. And she died at the end because of a fire.

In Junior´s opinion she one of the best people on World. She also lives in the rez and gives Arnold advice. She never drinked in her live and is very tolerant. She is famous from powwows and everyone likes her. After she gets killed 2000 people come to her funeral. 

Is the best friend of Junior´s dad. He drinks constantly but is a very nice person. He helps Arnold and takes him once to school on his motorcycle. He is shot and killed by one of his best friends what´s is really terrible for Junior and his family.

Is Junior´s best friend who also lives in the rez. He is like Arnold a very good baskteballplayer. He is really tough and strong but also a grim because he has a very bad dad.

She is Junior`s beautiful and popular girlfriend and in his mind very hot. She is one of the first persons which speak to Arnold at Reardan. 
Penelope and Arnold get friends after he discovers her bulimic and later they get also a couple. She supports and helps Arnold ans is one of the reasons why Junior ist accepted. 
One of her best friends is Roger.

He is Junior`s best white friend and extremly smart but also weird. 
Gordy helps Arnold sometimes a bit and they talk about many different things. 
Gordy loves books and also computers. 

It`s the coach of the highschool basketball team and so the coach of Arnold and also Roger. 
He is very important for him and a bit like a father. 
He tries to help and understand his team so also Arnold. The coach accepts Arnold and his charecteristics and tries to support the things at that Junior is good in basketball.

He is one of the teachers at the rez and Junior`s geometry teacher. 
After Arnold threw a book in his face he comes to talk with Arnold but gives hin advice for example that he should change the school.

I think the song "heavy" by Linkin Park fits very good with the thoughts and problems of Arnold. The song is about the own thoughts and the mind when you have problems with yourself. The song is about the question why is everything so heavy so why do you have such thoughts when you have made somthing wrong or when you can´t get along in live with yourself. 
So I think it matchs with Arnold. Because he somtimes doesn´t knows the reason why he is like he is or why (his) people(s) die and gives himself the fault and is joyless and want´s to do nothing or asks himself why he is alive. So the live of somtimes or even often very heavy and complicated and that even burdens him.

Another song by Linkin Park is "one more light". This song is about loosing people and that this can be very damning. It also matches very good with the live of Arnold because he looses often a person of his live and is then in most cases very sad and joyless and asks himself why he looses so much of persons which are significant for him. 
Another point of the song caring about the deaths or better about who cares? 
And that´s a special thing about the indians. It´s not like and the song that nobody or just the family cares rather the whole rez is caring of a dead person. It´s becomes clear when you think of the funeral of the grandma. There were about 2000 people who want to say goodbye so 2000 people who care. 
Junior says that he was at many more funerals as the white kids because at the rez everybody cares about the others not like the white people who care just about the family or the best friends. 
So that´s a point of the song which fits probably with white people but the good thing about the indians is that they are a bit different.

I think he is more unrealistic and problematic than convincing. He has so much physical attributes, a bad life and hardly no luck that I don´t think he could exist. Sure there are people which have a live that´similar (I think) but I can´t get along with him.

In my opinion she is plausible and convincing. There aren´t much of such persons on the world. A person which is so tolerant and drinks no alcohol too is very rare on this world. a pity that she dies.

The Coach is also a character which I like. He is also very plausible and convincing. He helps and supports very good, he is talented in that point. There aren´t also much guys like him but it´s good that there are some persons which such a character.