How did Junior make the basketball team? In what ways was this related to his conversation with his dad earlier?
Junior makes the basketball team not by his skill, but with his determination to not give up. Junior gets knocked over many times during tryouts, but he keeps getting up and trying again, instead of taking a break from getting beaten up and not making the team. “Ninety percent of me wanted to take the break. But I knew that if I took that break I would never make the team,” (Alexie, 140). Earlier, Junior’s dad tells him that in order to make the basketball team, he had to believe in himself, to believe that he could make the team. “You have to dream big to get big,” (Alexie, 136). Junior makes the basketball team by believing in himself and not giving up, making him one of the best players on the team.
For Junior to accomplish his goals and to get someone to pay attention to his dreams he has to be consistent. He can't give up when thing get to hard because that is just the way life works. Because he is native american living on the reservation he has to work twice as hard. Like his sister, when thing gets hard or to complicated she runs away.
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