Emily Dingman
9/3/2014 10:36:12 am
"Rowdy and I played one-on-one for hours. We played until dark. We played until lit up the court. We played until bats swooped at our heads. We played until the moon was huge and golden and perfect in the dark sky.
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Mikayla Kricfalusi
9/3/2014 11:15:40 am
I feel the same way. Arnold has gone through a lot in a short period of time, and seeing that friendship rekindled brings a sense of completion.
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Morgan King
9/3/2014 11:05:29 am
"What do you say to people when they ask you how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?
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Mikayla Kricfalusi
9/3/2014 11:13:44 am
I love your insight on how the best learning experiences come from hard times. I was talking with my teammates before the school year about this, how the best practices in retrospect, are the ones that hurt the most in the moment.
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Mikayla Kricfalusi
9/3/2014 11:10:28 am
“Ninety percent of me wanted to take that break. But I knew if I took that break I would never make the team.”
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Christian Klosterman
9/3/2014 11:29:40 am
I loved this part of the chapter, it really shows how Junior has changed since leaving the Rez, from being the person on the bench not wanting to play, to giving it his 110% and putting himself out there.
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Kaeli Leoni
9/3/2014 11:33:29 am
I really like how you related this quote so much to real life and the struggles that come with it and how you related this to your own life.
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TJ Accardi
9/3/2014 12:30:32 pm
I think that with this you just effectively summed up everything big accomplishment. Every time we want to sit down and give up on a hard task we really have to say no unless we want to give up and set ourselves into a state of mind that is really hard to escape from. I also felt like your analysis was very insightful.
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Jenna Welsh
9/3/2014 12:53:22 pm
My favorite part of your analysis was how you connected his refusal to give into his body to his refusal to give into his circumstances. I also agree that the feeling of success comes from knowing that you could have given up, but you didn't.
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Julia Serna
9/3/2014 02:55:24 pm
I love how you related this to your life.
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Kaeli Leoni
9/3/2014 11:22:20 am
"They needed me to be good. They expected me to be good. And so I became good."
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Christian Klosterman
9/3/2014 11:25:59 am
I totally agree, as soon as Junior changed is state of mind, the sky was the limit for him.
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Piper Tompkins
9/3/2014 11:28:30 am
I agree with what you said "Your surroundings/mind can change you and how you act." I think that speaks to everyone, and every body can relate to that.
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TJ Accardi
9/3/2014 12:28:14 pm
I entirely agree with this mostly for the same reasons christian did. I felt that his (the author's) state of mind and character really propelled him to do more than sit in the basement all his life.
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Lucas LeVieux
9/3/2014 12:52:03 pm
This is part of the tipping point of the story for Junior. He figures out that he can have a real, fun and important life. Because when he had people who believed in him, he believed in himself. And that led to success.
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Matt Rose
9/3/2014 02:13:28 pm
I agree and I really wished becoming good at things was that easy, it would make life so much funner.
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Justin Reyes
9/3/2014 03:02:57 pm
I agree with what you said,"positive change in thought". Junior was able to develop that amazing mindset which changed the way he played basketball.
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Jackson
9/3/2014 03:26:01 pm
I feel having others believe in you can make you believe in yourself and it seemed to work for junior. Great quote chose!
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mikey
9/4/2014 02:07:54 pm
i think that your right and if people choose to focus on the bigger picture there really isn't any limit.
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Christian Klosterman
9/3/2014 11:24:44 am
"Yeah, that Eugene, he was a positive dude even as an alcoholic who ended up getting shot in the face and killed." page 188
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Kaeli Leoni
9/3/2014 11:30:01 am
I agree with what you said about how the Wellpinit team had gone through so many more struggles than the kids on the Reardan team and how sad it was for Junior to realize what he had done.
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Justin Reyes
9/3/2014 02:45:27 pm
I agree with you lots and lots Christian. I also would like to point out that when you said "a small kid with lots of courage" it honestly gave me the chills. Good job.
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Kayla Feather
9/3/2014 12:19:06 pm
"My grandmother's last act on this earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance" page 157
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Alexis Habib
9/3/2014 12:45:28 pm
As much as I would like to see more tolerance in the world, I just don't think it will happen with as many stuck-up-and-full-of-themselves people that are in our generation.
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Jenna Welsh
9/3/2014 12:48:50 pm
I loved this quote as well. I hope that I can one day be even half as incredible as Junior's grandmother! Love how you connected this to our world today/future generations.
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Emily Hayashida
9/3/2014 01:05:53 pm
Wow this is an amazing quote, and I really enjoy your analysis. While this is a made up story you hope that more people from our generations will follow suit.
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Jack Campbell
9/3/2014 01:52:15 pm
I like how you looked at how our generation and you yourself felt about tolerance and forgiveness.
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Zeke
9/3/2014 02:50:56 pm
I think I see what your saying, and I agree. I think its really an issue with maturity, and as children grow they are introduced to great joys, as well as depressions. I think that as we mature there is no doubt that we all shall have the mind set of Arnie's grandmother
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9/3/2014 04:33:35 pm
I also agree I thought this part was so touching,I think it related to that essay we read in class of the innocent man who was put to jail because of a mistake and how he forgave her anyways. So when I read this I thought f how angry I would have been but like you said it was just very inspirational.
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Hunter Birk
9/4/2014 08:26:54 am
I think that Junior could have taken this really bad but he came out stronger, and I agree with you that it made him more tolerant.
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TJ Accardi
9/3/2014 12:26:46 pm
"You're an old time nomad" Rowdy said. "You're going to keep moving all over the world in search of food and water and grazing land. That's pretty cool."
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Piper Tompkins
9/3/2014 12:34:39 pm
I agree I am glad that their relationship got the closure it needed, and I think this quote really sums it up well how they are going different places in their lifes.
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Isaac fernandez
9/3/2014 11:38:17 pm
Yes! I think that it sucks for him to have to end his friendship, but it was just one of the things that he had to say bye to or end if he wanted to get out of the Rez.
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mikey
9/4/2014 02:09:04 pm
I think that its good that they both got closer to one another. I think that itl help them immensely for the future and will bring the both great things!
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Piper Tompkins
9/3/2014 12:30:16 pm
“‘Dont leave me,’ She said. ‘Dont ever leave me’”
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Emily Hayashida
9/3/2014 01:08:38 pm
I think that this is an extremely moving quote, and I'm glad that you did an excellent job on the analysis. I think that living though death of a loved one is one of the most challenging things the human can do and you do a great job of explaining that.
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Camila Antonorsi
9/3/2014 01:33:59 pm
i agree with emily this is a very strong quote and i like how you pointed out that he means so much to her that she is going to be a billion times more protective of him.
Noah Parr
9/3/2014 12:36:34 pm
"I used to think that the world was broken down by tribes,"I said. By black and white. By Indian and white. But I know that isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: The people who are assholes, and the people who are not." Page 176
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Alexis Habib
9/3/2014 12:42:29 pm
I almost forgot about this quote while I was posting my own response! I have to say, when I read over it in the book, I like to think of the face that teacher made!
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Eddie Herrera
9/3/2014 02:42:05 pm
Yeahh Noah Preach it," we shouldn't be judged by the color of our skin or how we look because the truth lies within." -Eddie 2k14
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Michele Moua
9/3/2014 03:15:28 pm
Junior clearly has earned his place in his high school through kindness and standing his ground. People can hate all they want, but the fact that Junior can take all of the negativity, prove to everyone that he's better, then feel an extreme deep sense of remorse shows a lot of character.
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Jackson sjogren
9/3/2014 03:30:06 pm
interesting quote! I think it's funny thats the way these kids view people. But it makes me wonder what happened to them to make them think this?
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Alexis Habib
9/3/2014 12:40:18 pm
"They call me an apple because they think i'm red on the outside and white on the inside." -p. 132
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Tristan Elghoroury
9/3/2014 02:07:43 pm
yea that is really true that you act differently in front of different people.And I think that junior had to totally live that out when he had to try to fit in at Rearden.
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Eli Murguia
9/3/2014 03:00:07 pm
I really like how you connected people's personalities and how they have different versions of the way that they act with this quote. It really is true how you act differently when around different people, yet the versions of you sum up who you really are inside. Haha I also like your quote because I can relate to being called a coconut, brown on the outside and white on the inside. But hey thats just who I am, people just gotta deal with it :)
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Benjamin Rose
9/4/2014 12:55:15 am
I like your analysis and I agree that people act differently with everyone around them, and that it's a natural thing that happens in everyone.
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Jenna Welsh
9/3/2014 12:46:18 pm
"I was suddenly ashamed that I'd wanted so badly to take revenge on them. I was suddenly ashamed of my anger, my rage, my pain."
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Morgan King
9/3/2014 01:48:43 pm
I sincerely understood your analogy to the book and history. It is so easy to never think about the horrible things that we have done throughout history. However, I think that with more and more people sharing their stories, people are starting to develop a more evolved sense of forgiveness.
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Lucas LeVieux
9/3/2014 01:49:49 pm
I used the exact same quote!
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Chenoa Levy
9/3/2014 06:33:04 pm
I agree, when a person is blinded by anger they don't think of the consequences of their actions and the effect it has on others
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Emily Hayashida
9/3/2014 01:03:55 pm
"I prayed to God that my father would come driving up in his old car." Pg. 203
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"Not tonight," I said. "Tonights my night."
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Matt Rose
9/3/2014 01:29:50 pm
"For about two minutes, we all sat quiet. Who knew what to say? And then my mother started laughing. And that set us off all laughing." pg.166
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Abby Elliott
9/3/2014 02:09:14 pm
I agree. I am always grateful for comic relief in a book.
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Nicole Matteson
9/3/2014 03:05:27 pm
I loved the change in atmosphere in this part too! it lightens the mood which always makes it easier to read
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Eddie Herrera
9/3/2014 03:08:10 pm
I have to disagree, the book stated that laughter was just the same as exchanging tears, I also don't think they're intention was to make it funny, because death isn't funny at all. I think the author was trying to show that joy and laughter is the only light or hope that we have. Pain is universal, but so is hope. Eddie 2k14
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Camila Antonorsi
9/3/2014 01:31:22 pm
"Like she'd baptized me with her pain."
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Matt Rose
9/3/2014 01:58:29 pm
I agree its quite sad to see a family go through so much pain that all they can think about is when will it stop.
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Ryan Cormack
9/3/2014 03:42:17 pm
I agree that it made him a stronger person and built his character more.
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Lucas LeVieux
9/3/2014 01:44:39 pm
"I suddenly wanted to apologize to Rowdy, to all of the other Spokanes. I was suddenly ashamed that I'd wanted so badly to take revenge on them. I was suddenly ashamed of my anger, my rage, and my pain."
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Tristan Elghoroury
9/3/2014 02:03:45 pm
yea,that part was really emotional for me.I was so happy for Junior that I had forgotten all the problems that were still there.The author seems to know that you would be feeling that and he/she really smacks the reality in your face when Junior realizes that.
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Rena Dillenbeck
9/3/2014 02:23:24 pm
I totally agree, often times people don't realize that every win for them is a loss for someone else. I think people should step back and realize that before they go celebrate a big win.
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Kendall Tally
9/3/2014 01:45:21 pm
"Grandparents are supposed to die first, but they're supposed to die of old age. They're supposed to die of a heart attack or a stroke or of cancer or of Alzheimer's. THEY ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO GET RUN OVER AND KILLED BY A DRUNK DRIVER!"
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Morgan King
9/3/2014 01:52:08 pm
Okay, I really like how you were the first to comment on this quote. I really do understand where you are going with the analogy, and it reminds me of people who were taken unfairly throughout the last twenty years. Even though they are gone, they have left some kind of legacy, as the grandmother had done.
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Jack Campbell
9/3/2014 01:53:55 pm
I like how you compared it to oscars death, I had not made that connection
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Anonymustard
9/3/2014 02:26:31 pm
deep.
Rena Dillenbeck
9/3/2014 02:27:42 pm
I really like how you made the connection to Oscar's death, but if you think about it, most deaths are preventable, like if someone dies of cancer, it isn't always preventable but there are things you can do to try to prevent it. Or like if someone dies from drinking too much, that is completely preventable.
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Zeke
9/3/2014 02:45:32 pm
I feel like the pain and grief of a death, leads us to think that maybe the death was preventable that maybe we could have done something. but in reality it was far beyond our reach. Maybe a morning strategy, a way of saying that it is my fault, and that's why I feel so bad.
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Hunter Birk
9/4/2014 08:28:52 am
I think that Junior is really angry and rightfully so, but I disagree, I think aside from the etmtional effects it hasnt done a great deal physicslly.
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Jack Campbell
9/3/2014 01:50:08 pm
"Of course, ever since white people showed up and brought along their Christianity and their fears of eccentricity, Indians of gradually lost all of their tolerance.”
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Abby Elliott
9/3/2014 02:05:46 pm
So true and so sad that the white man stripped the Natives of their way of life believing that their way of life was superior to that of the Natives.
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Benjamin Rose
9/4/2014 12:57:29 am
I like this analysis because I think it's true, I think that after being persecuted for many years, you begin to lose your own tolerance. That's why some groups that were persecuted for many years have turned their prejudices around back to who persecuted them today.
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Tristan Elghoroury
9/3/2014 01:55:42 pm
"I wasn't expected to be good,so I wasn't"
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Nicole Matteson
9/3/2014 03:10:58 pm
I totally agree!! John Steinbeck is one of my favorite authors
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Abby Elliott
9/3/2014 02:00:45 pm
"I'm not nomadic," Rowdy said. "hardly anybody on this rez is nomadic. Except for you. You're the nomadic one." (p. 229)
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Rena Dillenbeck
9/3/2014 02:11:12 pm
"Drunk for a week, my father must have really wanted to spend that five dollars. Shoot, you can a bottle of the worst whiskey for five dollars. He could have spent that five bucks and been drunk for another day or two. But he saved it for me. It was a beautiful and ugly thing." (Page 151)
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Eli Murguia
9/3/2014 03:11:28 pm
Dang Rena, you were really able to connect with Arnold. I like how you also kind of added as to what Junior would have said since you knew a lot about the things that he talked about. And I agree with how you felt about your dad/Juniors dad going out to drink. If they wanted to just go and spend all of their money on alcohol then they should have either thought twice about having a family or should receive three times as much crap as they are giving to their families because they aren't the ones who deserve it.
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Kane McGrath
9/3/2014 02:26:48 pm
“she went searching for her dreams, and she didn't find them. But she made the attempt.”
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Grant
9/3/2014 04:10:35 pm
I really liked how you incorporated your own story to go along with the quote.
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Shea Saulino
9/4/2014 01:43:38 am
I absolutely agree that this was such a turning point in the book- Junior learned that it's okay to reach for the stars but only touch the sky. I loved this quote and this passage.
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Eddie Herrera
9/3/2014 02:27:33 pm
"I was crying tears of shame" pg 196
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Julia Serna
9/3/2014 02:58:05 pm
I agree with your statement we often forget to help each other because of greed.
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Alexis Miranda
9/4/2014 01:58:46 am
Hello, yes I do agree with this statement as well. I love how you explained both teams situations
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Ezekiel Mortensen
9/3/2014 02:39:09 pm
"If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing."
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Justin Reyes
9/3/2014 02:41:56 pm
"Its pretty," Rowdy said. "I've never seen anything so pretty." It was the only time I'd ever hear him talk like that.
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Grant
9/3/2014 04:12:48 pm
I liked your quote and your analysts on it.
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Shea Saulino
9/4/2014 01:45:41 am
I loved this quote! It made me smile as well!
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Alexis Miranda
9/4/2014 02:25:26 am
Your right, this was probably the most surprising part of the book. I never pictured Rowdy saying anything like that.
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Nicole Matteson
9/3/2014 02:53:08 pm
"I mean, you have to love somebody that much, to hate somebody that much"
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Sarah Lockhart
9/4/2014 02:06:40 pm
The quote is great and the connection to your own life was amazing!
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Eli Murguia
9/3/2014 02:53:23 pm
"It all gave me hope. It gave me a little bit of joy. That's the only way I managed to make it through all of that death and change."
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Jonathan R
9/3/2014 04:52:06 pm
I agree that friends are people who can bring you out of the worst of funks a better person.
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Julia Serna
9/3/2014 02:54:08 pm
"I've come to realize that every single moment of my life is important"pg 184
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Michele Moua
9/3/2014 03:09:26 pm
"Forgive him"
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Dylan L
9/3/2014 03:29:36 pm
Ichy- you make some really good points. It is really saddening to see how pampered we are compared to the folks on the reservation. I was so surprised at how blatant Arnold was when he was covering Grandmother's death. It seemed like he was so "hardened" and it didn't seem emotional; his lack of emotional did make the story very heart-wrenching for me.
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Kane McGrath
9/3/2014 03:30:44 pm
I liked your quote and Your analysis on it.
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Srdja
9/3/2014 03:21:50 pm
In fact, last week, she was walking back home from a mini powwow at the Spokane Tribal Community Center, when she struck and killed by a drunk driver. (grandmother)
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Dylan L
9/3/2014 03:24:30 pm
I did the exact same thing, Srdja. I read that sentence probably 5 times. I couldn't believe what I was reading. You do seem to be correct, though- Junior is completely out of luck.
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Dylan L
9/3/2014 03:22:25 pm
"I mean, you have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too."
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Kane McGrath
9/3/2014 03:34:44 pm
Your Quote made a lot of sense, it gave me new perspective on the quote
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Jackson
9/3/2014 03:23:35 pm
"Ninety percent of me wanted to take that break. But I knew if I took that break I would never make the team.”
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Ryan Cormack
9/3/2014 03:40:54 pm
"Well, life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community"
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Jonathan R
9/3/2014 04:49:44 pm
I like how you talked about what happened to him when he started to move from one of the two to the other.
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Dillon
9/3/2014 03:57:57 pm
"And somebody tried to cool some soup on a hot plate. And they forgot about it and left. And a curtain drifted in on the wind and caught the hot plate, and the trailer burned down quick."
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Grant
9/3/2014 04:06:02 pm
"I shouldn't be in the school at all"
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Kane McGrath
9/3/2014 04:09:09 pm
I liked your analysis, it gave me a new perspective on the quote.
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Jonathan Richeson
9/3/2014 04:46:32 pm
"We had defeated the enemy! We defeated the champions! We were David who'd thrown the stone into the brain of Goliath!
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9/3/2014 05:05:03 pm
"I have to prove that I am stronger than everybody else, I have to prove that I will never give up I will never quite playing hard, And I don't just mean in basketball. I'm never going to quite living life this hard. you know?" ( pg 187)
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Chenoa Levy
9/3/2014 06:34:44 pm
Junior really has grown from the beginning. If he was in the sam situation earlier I think he would have quit or shy away, but instead he's starting to stand up for himself.
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Alexis Miranda
9/3/2014 05:32:05 pm
"I felt helpless and stupid. I needed books. I wanted books. And I drew and drew and drew cartoons."
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Isaac Fernandez
9/3/2014 11:35:41 pm
Yeah! I think its always good to have something like how he has drawing to keep you happy during something like that.
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Kevin Stiemke
9/7/2014 04:51:48 am
Yeah. I agree. I think it is always good to do things you like after you've been feeling really bad.
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Chenoa Levy
9/3/2014 06:26:38 pm
"My grandmother last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love , and tolerance."pg. 157
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Isaac Fernandez
9/3/2014 11:33:47 pm
"It was like the coffin was settling down for a long, long nap, for a forever nap. That was it."
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Benjamin Rose
9/4/2014 12:53:01 am
“We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly.”
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Hesham
9/4/2014 02:11:04 pm
This quote stood out to me as well because there is no limit of what you can achieve. Good job analyzing this quote.
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Allison Hopkins
9/4/2014 01:22:49 am
"Okay, so maybe my white teammates had problems, serious problems, but none of their problems was life threatening. But I looked over at the Wellpinit Redskins, at Rowdy. I knew that two or three of those Indians might not have eaten breakfast that morning." Pg 195
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Shea Saulino
9/4/2014 01:41:09 am
"They needed me to be good. They expected me to be good. And so I became good."
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Hunter Birk
9/4/2014 08:25:08 am
Quote: " I spit on my hands, rubbed them together and reached up for the first branch. I pulled myself up to the second branch. And then the next and next."
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Mikey Saunders
9/4/2014 08:29:52 am
"forgive him."
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Sarah Lockhart
9/4/2014 01:41:21 pm
I really liked this quote too and I love your connection to the This I Believe essay; I didn't think of that!
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Kevin
9/7/2014 04:46:48 am
I like this quote too, and I liked the way you compared this to one of the This I Believes.
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Sarah Lockhart
9/4/2014 01:39:50 pm
"My grandmother's last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance." 157
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Hesham
9/4/2014 02:09:08 pm
This quote is really touching, and I like the way you reflected on this quote.
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Hesham Hamed
9/4/2014 02:07:26 pm
"I used to think that the world was broken down by tribes,"I said. By black and white. By Indian and white. But I know that isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: The people who are assholes, and the people who are not."
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Kevin Stiemke
9/7/2014 04:43:45 am
''I mean, yeah my dad would sometimes go on a binge and be gone for a week, but those white dads can completely disappear without leaving the living room.''
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