analysis

1. Junior draws cartoons because words are too unpredictable and words are too limited.  The first cartoon depicts what he thinks of himself. It also depicts how he thinks he looks in all his glory.  The second cartoon depicts him trying to show off with all the random stuff he knows or has.  It depicts him telling people to love him and how people probably see him through their eyes.  This tells us that junior likes to draw and express himself through drawing and sharing how he feels about life.  It also tells us that he may be insecure about his feelings and has to draw to tell them.

Quickwrite

1. Junior’s family has poverty as a cycle because his family has be poor since he has ever known.  His family is poor and he wonders if they were not Indians they could have been a rich family and his parents would have good jobs.  His family, his parent’s family, his grandparent’s family and the families before that were poor.  They can barely afford to take junior to his new school because they can’t afford gas for the car. Junior’s father had to put their dog down because they could not afford vet bills.  Junior wants to change this by going to a different school because at the schools on the reservation because they teach the students to “give up”.