#5 2. Summarize the cartoon on 182. What is the significance? What does this show about Junior? What is his dilemma? - Saffy P

Junior draws a cartoon demonstrating what people say to him and how he feels when he plays basketball in Reardan versus when he is playing at Wellpinit. The cartoon has been placed when Junior is bragging about how amazing his team has become. The cartoon shows that when he is in the Wellpinit gym, he is criticized for betrayal, and being a "White lover" (Alexie 182). Meanwhile, when Junior is in the Reardan gym, he is encouraged, and supported by the crowds. A question that Junior asks that can be seen throughout the cartoon is "Who am I?" (Alexie 182). Junior asks this question because at Wellpinit, he no longer feels like he fits in because he has betrayed the school to go to Reardan. Junoir's tribe call him an "Apple" (Alexie 131,)  because he looks Indian, but they think that really, he is white on the inside. At Reardan, Junior can never really fit in because he is the only Indian kid in the school, he may feel like he fits in, but someone will always hate him for being Indian. Junoir says, " I wasn't from the town ... so I would always be an outsider." The question that Junoir ponders represents the title of the book "A Part-Time Indian," because Junoir is partially an Indian, but also a white person on the inside. Junior illustrates the two sides of his personality in this cartoon.