4. At his new school, Reardan, Arnold gets to know a book-lover named Gordy, who says that “life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.” How does this idea relate to Arnold’s life? (132)
The quote that comes from Gordy, explains what is happening to Arnold through the end of the book. When Arnold talks to his old teacher Mr. P, he learns that there is hope, you just have to make it yourself. With the knowledge that staying at the school in Wellpinit will lead to an alcoholism life, he decides that leaving and interring a new school would be better for him. The decision was not meant to insult the people leaving on the reservation with him, but it did anyways because he was leaving his “family” behind. Even though the people bullied him, and made him feel unwelcomed, Arnold was in the wrong for leaving. Quite crazy that Arnold trying to better himself, is in turn insulting them for even thinking about having a better life than what they had to give. That’s what Arnold had to deal with, the anger of his fellow tribal members for trying to find himself. To live in his community, he had to be like them, alcoholic, depresses and hopeless.
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