Summarize the cartoon on 182. What is the significance? What does it show about Junior? What is his dilemma?

(Post for 179-198)

              The significance of the cartoon on page 182 is that he is two different people living in two different worlds. As shown in the Wellpinit gym, the fans hate and despise him for "being a traitor". He has a thought bubble thinking "who am I?" (182).  But when he is at the Rearden gym, the fans cheer for him like he is "some kind of crusading warrior" (182).  The crowds love him like all the other players on the team. But one similarity is that he is wondering who he is. In one gym he is a traitor, but he is at his home, but at the other gym, he is a warrior and the majority of the fans love him, but it isn't his home, he is still partly an outsider. 

              This cartoon shows Junior that he is a traitor. He feels like "one of those Indian scouts who led the U.S. cavalry against other Indians"(182). He is betraying his Indian to become white. This cartoon relates to the title "The absolute true story of a part-time Indian". Now that he is at Rearden, he can not call himself a true Indian, after all, he switched to an all white high school. This cartoon shows that. 

              Do you think that his "relationship" with the Rez or Rearden will change? If Arnold had to pick one side of him, his Indian side or his white side, even though he is not technically white at all, which one do you think he would pick? What if you were in his shoes, what would you pick? If the fans at the Wellpinit gym treated him just like at the Rearden gym, which gym do you think he would rather want to play at?