my first impression of junior is he is a little insacure but also blunt, strong minded when he needs to be, and a realist. Junior sees him self as a poor ass reservation kid. People on the rez see him as a retard/punching bag. I have never kept a diarie so i have no experiences with them. I think junior keeps one because he really does not have any one to talk to about this stuff. If he talked to his only friend Rowdy about it he would get the crap beat out of him. I think Junior emphasizes that it is "absolutely true" because he is so strait forward and out spoken he does not need to lie.
For negotiating hard times i use skatboarding and photography as lifeboats. Skatboarding simply keeps my mind off what ever subject i am dealing with and photography relaxes me.
A quote that i find interesting is "Dont get me wrong. I dont have anything against my mothers womb. I was built in there, after all. So i have to say that i am pro-womb. But i have zero interest in moving back home, so to speak" (Alexie 27). I like that this is a example of how Junior is out spoken. I have never heard any one talk about moving back home to their mothers womb.
