Thursday, November 12, 2015
Interpret/explore/explain the context and the significance of the quote “I don’t know if hope is white. But I do know that hope for me is like some mythical creature” (51) (Siena)
Junior says “I don’t know if hope is white. But I do know that hope for me is like some mythical creature” (Alexie 51) because he has no experience with hope. He has no idea whether native americans have hope, but he knows that hope is not something he has in his life at the moment, so he has to find it. The reason it's like a mythical creature to him is because it almost seems like something out of a fairytale. When Junior is contemplating hope and going to Reardan he says "Where is hope?...Who has hope?" (Alexie 43). He says this because he has no idea what hope feels like, and wants an example of it so he can understand the concept. He doesn't know whether hope is strictly white either, and needs to figure out if the natives have hope also. Junior has never experienced hope, and is having trouble finding it.
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I totally agree with you. I found a quote that shows how the white kids at Reardan have hope unlike Junior and the rest at the reservation. "They were beautiful and smart. They were filled with hope" (Alexie 50). They, was referring to the studetns at Reardan and Junior was talking to himself about how Wellpinit always loosing against Reardan at all of the games they played. This gives and example of how Junior thinks of the students there and how they are filled with hope and how they have so many privileges and seem to have it much better than the reservation. Junior is just putting himself down with thinking they are better than him which is lowering his chance for hope.
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