![]() As his cartoons and his optimism would suggest, Junior’s narrative voice is funny, upbeat, and frank, if a little prone to a teenager’s extreme statements. He also loves playing basketball, discovering he has unexpected talent when he joins the Reardan team and receives the support of his coach and teammates. ![]() Junior keeps up his hope by drawing cartoons, which to him represent both a chance to leave the reservation and a potential for universal understanding. Though he is often lonely and thinks of himself as weak, invisible, and unable to fight back physically, other characters recognize him as a “warrior,” a smart, brave, and highly committed person who has been “fighting since born” to keep his hope despite the oppressive, depressing atmosphere of the reservation. Junior is frequently bullied because of his “weird” physical attributes, the result of the hydrocephalus he was born with. The fourteen-year-old narrator and protagonist of the novel. ![]()
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