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What is the chapter “In Like a Lion” in the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian<\/em> about? What happens in this chapter and what does Junior learn?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In Like a Lion” is a chapter in the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. <\/em>It is about Junior’s time on the Reardan basketball team. Junior becomes a star player on the team, and forms a rivalry with the Wellpinit<\/a> team and his former best friend Rowdy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep reading for a summary of the chapter “In Like a Lion.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

In Like a Lion: Basketball Tryouts<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In the chapter “In Like a Lion” Junior joins the basketball team. Although Junior doesn\u2019t think he\u2019ll make either the varsity or junior varsity team, he tries out for basketball anyway. There are 40 students competing for 24 varsity and junior varsity spots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After running 100 laps around the gym, the team hopefuls play full-court one-on-one games so the coach can assess their skills. Junior is paired with Roger. Predictably, Roger easily steals the ball from Junior as he starts to dribble, then knocks Junior over when it\u2019s Junior\u2019s turn to play defense. The coach acknowledges that Roger\u2019s much bigger than Junior and asks if Junior needs a break. Junior really wants a break, but knows that if he takes it, he\u2019ll lose his shot at making the team. <\/strong>He has to prove his tenacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next time Roger knocks Junior down, he jumps up and chases the ball, which has bounced into the stands. He grabs it and sprints back to the court, not even bothering to dribble, running like a fullback. By the time he gets 15 feet away from Roger, who\u2019s ready to tackle him like a linebacker, both boys are screaming. Junior nails a jump shot, then Roger grabs the ball and takes it to the opposite end of the court. Junior stays with him and fouls him to keep him from making a layup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having seen enough, the coach calls them off the court, but he doesn\u2019t seem bothered by their untraditional strategies on the court. Roger offers Junior his fist for a fist bump, and Junior knows at this moment that he\u2019s going to make the team. He doesn\u2019t just make the team\u2014he makes varsity. The chapter “In Like a Lion” marks a successful moment for Junior at Reardan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First Game Against Wellpinit<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The next section of “In Like a Lion” explains the game against Wellpinit, Junior’s old school. The first game of the season is against Junior\u2019s old school, Wellpinit High. Junior is so nervous about the game that he vomits four times before it starts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not long before, Junior had told Gordy about how people on the reservation call him an apple: \u201cred on the outside and white on the inside.\u201d He says that many Indians think you become as good as white if you aspire to a better life.<\/strong> Junior has had to deal with people on the rez calling him a traitor or ignoring him since he started school at Reardan, but now he faces the unappetizing prospect of returning to the rez in the company of the very people he left them for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the Reardan bus pulls up to Wellpinit High, little kids throw rock-filled snowballs at them. As the Reardan team walks toward the gym, Junior can hear the Wellpinit fans chanting. It takes him a moment to realize they\u2019re chanting \u201cAr-nold sucks! Ar-nold sucks!\u201d They\u2019re making a point of calling him by his Reardan name, Arnold, rather than his reservation name, Junior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Junior\u2019s coach asks Junior if he\u2019s okay. When Junior says he\u2019s not, his coach tells him he can sit this game out, but Junior refuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the team walks into the gym, the fans go silent. Then, all at the same time, all the spectators in the stands turn their backs on Junior.<\/strong> Junior\u2019s angry, in part because he thinks that if his community had been this organized when it came to educating its children, he might still be there. Thinking about this irony makes him laugh, the sole sound in the gym.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rowdy, on Wellpinit\u2019s basketball team,  is the only Indian who hasn\u2019t turned his back on Junior, but it\u2019s not out of kindness. Rowdy is glaring at Junior as he passes a ball around his body. He looks like he wants to kill Junior and is tired of waiting. This makes Junior laugh even harder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Junior\u2019s coach starts to laugh with him, and then the entire Reardan team starts to laugh, and they laugh their way to the locker room. Once in the locker room, Junior starts to cry. The coach tells the team that crying is ok. It means you care. He advises the team, especially Junior, to use that pain to get mad and go out fighting.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Game<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Junior does get mad and he\u2019s ready to play, but as he runs onto the court, someone from the stands throws a quarter that hits him on the forehead. Because he\u2019s bleeding, he can\u2019t play and has to go back to the locker room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His dad\u2019s friend Eugene, a newly-certified EMT, meets Junior in the locker room and tells him he\u2019ll need stitches. Junior asks Eugene to stitch him up so that he can go back out and play. Eugene finishes in time for Junior to join the second half of the game. Almost as soon as he\u2019s on the court, Junior steals the ball and runs for a layup, with Rowdy close behind him. Mid-air, Rowdy elbows Junior in the head and knocks him unconscious. As the ambulance takes Junior to the ER, the cops at the game try to restrain the Indian adults who have flooded the court to join the two teams, whose players are shoving each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The white referees are scared of the Indians<\/strong>, so to please them, they give Rowdy a technical foul for elbowing Junior, but they give the Reardan team four <\/em>fouls for unsportsmanlike conduct. Wellpinit wins by thirty points, and the doctors say Junior is fine. The chapter “In Like a Lion” details this game, but it won’t be the last one against Wellpinit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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