Monday, November 14, 2016
#7 3. Summarize the outcome of their game. Why does Junior cry at the end? What does he realize?
Junior's varsity team beat the Wellpinit team by many points, humiliating them and making them feel angry and mad. Junior's team, Reardon, consists of well-off people who don't have to worry as much about the money that they spend. On the other hand, the Wellpinit team members have to worry about how they are going to get breakfast in the morning. The Wellpinit team walks into the Reardon gym being booed and being made fun of even though they already feel embarrassed because they are not as rich at all as the Reardon students. At the end of the game they get more embarrassed because of their loss. Junior starts crying at the end of the game because he knows that he and his team just made the Wellpinit team feel more bad. He realizes that the Wellpinit team takes pride in their basketball success, one of the only things they feel good about and he just ruined their feeling of pride. Junior says, "I was suddenly ashamed that I'd wanted so badly to take revenge on them," (196 Alexie) because he knows that his team is more privileged than theirs and he should try to help them think more highly of themselves.
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I agree with Jacob because for a split second Junior was happy about their triumphant win. Then he started having winners remorse and thought deeply about his old friends. He realized that even though it was a hard fought win Reardan had an advantage even going into the game because all of them had eaten breakfast that morning unlike some Wellpinit kids. "I knew that two or three of those Indians might not have eaten breakfast that morning" (195) This made him think back and feel how hard it was not to have the privileges of the Rearden kids like food on the table every day. So Junior cries tears of shame because he knows he has just embarrassed his entire reservation.
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