Fishbowl Notes for Discussion by Wendy Reitz https://padlet.com/maine207/o1zlwrnl6r70 Don't forget to use text to help you! en-us 2019-09-02 15:18:59 UTC 2025-09-26 11:19:22 UTC hello@padlet.com P. 27 https://padlet.com/maine207/o1zlwrnl6r70/wish/379172411 Arnold's Drawing of his sister.  He is honest with her positive and negative qualities, but his sincerity is here. He admires her.  I can tell from his comments about her intelligence and how she is pretty and tough all at once.    He's kinder about her than he is about himself.  Isn't it funny that her name is Mary Runs Away (because she's so random) and that's what she does eventually in the novel?
One question to ask my classamates might be about why she never leaves the basement after high school? ]]> 2019-09-02 15:28:32 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/o1zlwrnl6r70/wish/379172411 p.89-91 https://padlet.com/maine207/o1zlwrnl6r70/wish/379173319 Mary elopes to Montana with a random man.  Wants "to have ten babies and live [there] forever" (90).  Junior blames himself a bit for this because he kind of shamed her into doing something outside the basement.  If he could go to Reardon, she could get out, too.  
Sadly, while she has the gift of intelligence like Armold, she doesn't have the motivation and has an addiction. She is actually part of the reason Mr. P comes to talk to Arnold. Mr. P can't watch the same thing happen to Arnold. Mary though represents ALL of the people with gifts though that don't make it because of other factors (addiction, no role models, no practical skills) What did she think she was doing? Question, was she being reckless or was that a good plan to leave?]]> 2019-09-02 15:36:51 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/o1zlwrnl6r70/wish/379173319 p. 91 https://padlet.com/maine207/o1zlwrnl6r70/wish/379174251 Arnold reflects that he and his sister are being warriors. That's a positive Native American quality/stereotype in this context. ]]> 2019-09-02 15:44:32 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/o1zlwrnl6r70/wish/379174251 Topic #9: What purpose does Mary Who Runs Away serve in the novel? https://padlet.com/maine207/o1zlwrnl6r70/wish/379174600 2019-09-02 15:47:29 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/o1zlwrnl6r70/wish/379174600 pg 51 https://padlet.com/maine207/o1zlwrnl6r70/wish/379450187 When Junior tells Rowdy that he is leaving to go to Reardan, Rowdy responds very bad. At first he does not believe him. Then, he gets aggressive, calls him slurs, and then punched him,

]]> 2019-09-03 13:53:46 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/o1zlwrnl6r70/wish/379450187 p. https://padlet.com/maine207/o1zlwrnl6r70/wish/379451971 2019-09-03 13:56:30 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/o1zlwrnl6r70/wish/379451971 p. 143,144 https://padlet.com/maine207/o1zlwrnl6r70/wish/379451981 "My fellow tribal members saw me and they all stopped cheering, talking, and moving. I think hey stopped breathing. And, then, as one, they all turned their backs on me. It was a fricking awesome display of contempt." This took place when Arnold was playing a basketball game against his old school. They were all mad at him because I guess they thought he betrayed them and left them to play on behalf of the rich white kids. I do not think that anger is justified because reservation schools were giving him nothing and he wanted a better life somewhere else. Arnold even said, if Indians had organized like this back when he actually went to school here, then maybe he would have stayed. ]]> 2019-09-03 13:56:31 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/o1zlwrnl6r70/wish/379451981 Topic #5 / p. 107 / p. 119-120 vpatel61 https://padlet.com/maine207/o1zlwrnl6r70/wish/379517339 Viraj Patel
Junior's understanding of poverty transcends race and class by actually making race an excuse to get out of situations which involve poverty. This situation can be addressed on a later time but for now, "My parents gave me just enough money so that I could pretend to have more money than I did. I lied about how poor I was." (119) What this quote is trying to say is that the class that he is in is restricts the many things he can have such as money and clothes or even food sometimes, and I marked this quote because  It shows that junior isn't proud of it and he wants to  hide it. On page 120 there is also an illustration which shows the different ways he finds  excuses to keep away and avoid from the fact that he is poor.

In the book there is also an  addiction that is addressed to be common among the Native Indians. This addiction falls under race unlike class which I address for poverty.
"There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away." (107) Maybe this quote relates back to the topic above about poverty, just maybe. So the alcohol is an addiction, and it says in the book that Junior's father is an alcoholic and so are his friends. Gambling is also an addiction commonly mentioned in the book, a lot of people on the reservation gambles. ]]> 2019-09-03 15:52:00 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/o1zlwrnl6r70/wish/379517339 Topic #2 jfernandez310 https://padlet.com/maine207/o1zlwrnl6r70/wish/379517569 Jenny Fernandez
Rowdy talks about his dream to become a NBA player but have no hopes for himself but Junior hypes and motivate him that he can do it. "Rowdy didn't believe in himself. Not much. So I tried to pump him up. 'You're the fastest, the strongest.'" (221) I used this quote because they both discuss about Rowdy's dream and  to finally afford a/c. 
Near the beginning, Junior talks about his dream to finally find hope by moving to Reardan. To settle the peace between the Indians and whites, "I was starting to understand. He was a math teacher. I had to add my hope to somebody else's hope. I had to multiply hope by hope." (43) He wanted to find the hope he was looking in Reardan so he can spread that to the Reservation doesn't have any.
Junior talks about 
his wish to not be in poverty, "Poverty doesn't give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor." (13) Referring back to his memory of his dog, he felt like he wanted to blame his parents for poverty because they didn't have enough to save their dog and wished they had a real job with real income.


]]> 2019-09-03 15:52:34 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/o1zlwrnl6r70/wish/379517569 Sayer Sakander https://padlet.com/maine207/o1zlwrnl6r70/wish/379583810 Topic #6: Gordy and Rowdy are foil characters? What purpose do they serve in the novel?
Rowdy and Gordy are seen as foil characters because of the role they play in the book. Both are very important to the protagonist (Junior). Gory was the first ever friend Junior made in reardan and Rowdy was his childhood best friend. Gordy wasn't always there but Rowdy was Junior has many memories with him in fact probably his best memories. A great example of ho much of a good friend Rowdy is was during the POWWOW celebration, "we hid near the Andruss brother's camp until three in the morning. They staggered back and passed out in their tent. Then Rowdy snuck in, shaved their eyebrows, and cut off their braids"Pg 22. The Andruss brothers kept making fun of Junior and punched him in the balls. To retaliate Rowdy cut off one of the most important things to the Indian tradition their braids. These braids are so long that they take years to grow and taking care of them is a grueling process. Rowdy didn't do this for self pleasure he did this because they bullied his friend Junior his only friend. This is not the only time since the two were little kids Rowdy would ]]> 2019-09-03 17:58:23 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/o1zlwrnl6r70/wish/379583810 Topic #5 amrozek https://padlet.com/maine207/o1zlwrnl6r70/wish/379700125 Adam Mrozek
Junior’s understanding of addiction and poverty transcend race and class because when he's always mentioning poverty and how so many Native Americans are alcoholics.
One example is when Rowdy asks Junior go to the Powwow with him."This was the 127th annual one, and there would be singing, war dancing, gambling,  laughter, fry bread, hamburgers, hot dogs, arts, and crafts, and plenty of alcoholic brawling." (Pg 17)When he say's this I feel that he's putting a lot of emphasis on the part about alcohol which translates to alcoholism is a widespread problem in their community.He also talks a lot about poverty which impacts him since he is in poverty along with most of the reservation."I wish I draw a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, or a fistful of twenty dollar bills."(Pg 7)This  shows that poverty is a problem for Junior because even though he wants to have those things his family in it's current state would never be able to afford stuff like that. Gambling also comes up because even though Rowdy and Junior are going to be freshman they still think about it.""Well watch for a little while,"I said. "And then go gamble or something.""(Pg 19)This brings up a major concern because they're thinking about gambling when they have close to nothing.]]> 2019-09-04 00:50:55 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/o1zlwrnl6r70/wish/379700125 Topic #1 https://padlet.com/maine207/o1zlwrnl6r70/wish/379894092
  • Comment on how arnold’s inspiration from his sister motivated him to talk to Gordy, as well as go on multiple endeavors out of the rez to “expand his horizons.”
    • “She was trying to live out her dream. We should have all been delirious that she'd moved out of the basement. We'd been trying to get her out of there for years. Of course, my mother and father would have been happy if she'd just gotten a part-time job at the post office or trading post, and maybe just moved into an upstairs bedroom in our house. But I just kept thinking that my sister's spirit hadn't been killed. She hadn't given up. This reservation had tried to suffocate her, had kept her trapped in a basement, and now she was out roaming the huge grassy fields of Montana. How cool! I felt inspired.”
    “"The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know."
    • Comment on how the tone of the book initially started with a negative tone but expanded by allowing Arnold to broaden his horizons despite such tragedies. 
    “But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten that reservations were meant to be death camps. I wept because I was the only one who was brave and crazy enough to leave the rez. I was the only one with enough arrogance"



    ]]>     2019-09-04 13:24:54 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/o1zlwrnl6r70/wish/379894092     Topic #7 Ashish Sreekumar https://padlet.com/maine207/o1zlwrnl6r70/wish/379901464 When Sherman Alexie is talking about tribes she means the Indian tribal groups. Tribes usually mean a group of people that stick together like family. In Junior reservation mostly everybody is against him for leaving the reservation. The influences they have in the tribe is really bad because they do drugs and they are drunk and a lot of them don't have jobs. " There are all kinds of addicts..."(107). Another influence is when Eugene was killed over some wine. " Way drunk, Eugene was shot and killed by one of his good friends, Bobby... The police think Eugene and Bobby fought over the last drink in a bottle of wine."(169). This shows that some tribal men are a bad influence to the kids because they are fighting over alcohol. ]]> 2019-09-04 13:36:55 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/o1zlwrnl6r70/wish/379901464 TOPIC 7 When Sherman Alexie talks about the word "tribe", he is referring to the Indian tribal groups. I believe Sherman Alexie's message was that you can stay in a group but if you leave to go do that might benefit you then you should leave the tribe and go do the thing that you want. There were no roles in this book but they have to stick together. The text said " 'Who has the most hope?' I asked. Mom and dad looked at each other. They studied each other's eyes, you know, like they had antennas and were sending radio signals to each other. And then they both looked back at me. 'Come on,' I said. 'Who has the most hope?' 'White people,' my parents said at the same time." Page 45. This proves he got influenced by white people to go to there school. Also, Mr.P influenced him as well because Mr.P wants Junior to do good. -Lazar lsimic https://padlet.com/maine207/o1zlwrnl6r70/wish/380721989 2019-09-06 01:58:23 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/o1zlwrnl6r70/wish/380721989