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How do the students react to Junior at Reardan in the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian<\/em>? Does he fit in, or does he face difficulties at his new school?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The question of “how do the students react to Junior at Reardan” is marked by struggle. Junior faces racism, bullying, and more when he starts at his new school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So how do the students react to Junior at Reardan? Keep reading to find out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Junior\u2019s First Days at Reardan<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Junior shows up for his first day at Reardan with a black eye and a swollen nose from Rowdy\u2019s \u201cgood-bye punch.\u201d Before Junior\u2019s dad drops him off, he tells Junior to remember that the white kids are no better than he is. But they both know that\u2019s not true. Junior knows that they both understand they\u2019re Indians losers \u201cliving in a world built for winners.\u201d How do the students react to Junior at Reardan?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Junior waits for the building to open, the other kids stare at him\u2014he\u2019s the only Indian at Reardan, aside from the school mascot.<\/strong> Once in class, Junior meets blonde, blue-eyed Penelope, the most beautiful girl he\u2019s ever seen. As the teacher calls roll, Penelope asks Junior what his name is. When he tells her, she starts laughing<\/a> and telling her friends, and Junior realizes that they\u2019re laughing at his name. It\u2019s never occurred to him that he has an unusual name. On the rez, if you walk into a store and call out for \u201cJunior,\u201d seventeen guys and three women will answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do the students react to Junior at Reardan in his class? Things get worse for Junior when the teacher, still calling roll, calls him by his \u201cname <\/em>name,\u201d Arnold Spirit<\/a>. Penelope angrily turns back to him and accuses him of giving her a fake name. He tries to explain that his name is both Junior and<\/em> Arnold, feeling, as he does, like two different people: On the rez, he\u2019s Junior; in Reardan, he\u2019s Arnold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting by at Reardan<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: This section includes a quote from the book that uses the N-word. We\u2019re using the word itself because this is a significant moment in Junior\u2019s Reardan experience.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Junior\u2019s first days at Reardan are lonely. Most of his classmates ignore him. However, a few of the jocks pick on him. They never try to fight him\u2014Junior suspects that even though he\u2019s nerdy, he\u2019s an Indian and, therefore, viewed as a \u201cpotential killer.\u201d Instead of fighting him, they call him names like \u201cChief,\u201d \u201cTonto,\u201d and \u201cSquaw Boy.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initially, Junior ignores them. He\u2019s afraid that if he does<\/em> get into a fight with these boys who are much bigger than he is, they\u2019ll literally kill him. But this nonviolent attitude ceases when, one day, an older jock named Roger asks Junior if he wants to hear a joke: \u201cDid you know that Indians are living proof that n*ggers fuck buffalo?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Junior has never heard anything so racist. He feels the need to defend not only himself, but also black people, his fellow Indians, and<\/em> buffalo. He punches Roger in the face. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Junior backs away and gets into position to continue the fight, but the group of jocks just stares at him, shocked. All Roger can say as the blood comes out of his nose is that he can\u2019t believe that Junior has punched him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Junior suddenly feels brave. He thinks maybe this is the pivotal moment in his life when he tells the world that he\u2019s no longer willing to be a human punching bag.<\/strong> He tells Roger to meet him at the same spot after school so they can finish the fight, as per the fisticuff protocol on the rez, but Roger tells him he\u2019s crazy, gets up, and walks away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Junior\u2019s bravery turns into confusion. He\u2019s followed all the Spokane rules of fighting. So why are these boys ignoring him rather than defending their honor? Maybe the rules are different at Reardan? As Roger walks off, Junior calls after him and asks what the rules are. Roger, perplexed, responds, \u201cWhat rules?\u201d and continues to walk away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Junior is now confused and<\/em> terrified. He realizes that Reardan is like a different planet and he doesn\u2019t know how to get back home.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next morning, Junior\u2019s dad\u2019s best friend, Eugene, sees Junior walking to school and gives him a ride to school on his motorcycle. Roger sees them and approaches Junior after he gets off the bike. Junior\u2019s scared, but to his surprise, Roger just compliments the bike and tells Junior that he\u2019ll see him around. Junior realizes that he\u2019s earned Roger\u2019s respect by punching him<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hoping to ride the wave of this good luck, Junior sees popular Penelope and says hello. She ignores him. When he says hello again, she sniffs, pretends she doesn\u2019t know him, and then refers to him as the kid who doesn\u2019t know his own name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Students React to Junior at Reardan: Penelope<\/strong> Helps<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One day, Junior\u2019s bored in class and asks to go to the bathroom. While he\u2019s washing his hands, he hears the sound of someone retching in the girl\u2019s bathroom next door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do the students react to Junior at Reardan when he shows he cares? He waits outside the bathroom to make sure the student is ok, and Penelope soon walks out chewing cinnamon gum, trying to cover the smell of vomit. When she asks him what he\u2019s looking at, he tells her, \u201cI\u2019m looking at an anorexic.\u201d She corrects him: She\u2019s bulimic,<\/em> not <\/em>anorexic. There\u2019s a difference. \u201cAnorexics are anorexics all the time,\u201d but bulimics are only bulimic when they\u2019re throwing up.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This reminds Junior of the way his father always insists that he\u2019s only an alcoholic when he\u2019s drunk. He tells Penelope the same thing he tells his father when his father is drunk: \u201cDon\u2019t give up.\u201d<\/strong> Junior thinks this advice is kind of corny, but it hits a nerve with Penelope, and she starts to cry. She tells Junior that she\u2019s scared and unhappy but no one allows her to be scared and unhappy because she\u2019s so beautiful and smart. As she tells Junior this, Junior contemplates the size of her ego, but he finds her self-confidence attractive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After this incident, Junior and Penelope start hanging out and become \u201cfriends with potential.\u201d How do the students react to Junior at Reardan after he hangs out with Penelope? Junior knows that she\u2019s only \u201csemi-dating\u201d him because she\u2019s tired of being perfect and dating an Indian gives her a blemish, with the added benefit that it pisses off her racist dad.<\/strong> Junior doesn\u2019t mind that Penelope is using him because, as he sees it, he\u2019s using her, too. Penelope is his way into the social scene at Reardan. Once he starts dating Penelope, he becomes relatively popular.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Penelope and Junior also have things in common: They\u2019re both dreamers who feel trapped in their small towns.<\/strong> Penelope\u2019s dream is to study architecture at Stanford; Junior\u2019s dream is to become a famous artist. They both want to create beautiful things, and they bond over that dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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