PTI #8 - Quote to note: “I belonged to that tribe…”(217)

On page 217 Junior says the repetitive line "I belonged to that tribe..." (Alexie, 217) and continued the sentence with all of the things that are apart of himself. Junior is speaking to both himself and the reader as he is sitting in the cemetery realizing that he may feel alone, but he isn't the only one. "I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in my loneliness." (Alexie, 217) Each time after he says the beginning part of the line he says something that is a part of a group of. For example, he says that he belongs to the tribe of basketball players, cartoonist or even poverty. Junior realizes, he might feel like an outcast but he really isn't he has others that enjoy or are a part of the same things that he is. Junior finally after his whole life figures out that he isn't alone.