The first moment, in which Junior is presented as an outsider, is when he appears at Reardan with a black eye. This makes him a bigger outsider than he already is because as he is a Native American the white people wouldn’t be used to seeing them at there school. In addition to this he walked into Reardan with a black eye, which brought extra attention as it appeared that he had gotten into a fight. Another point that made him an outsider was the fact that Reardan’s school mascot was an Indian. This makes Junior an outsider because by using an Indian as their mascot they are indicating that they think less of Native Americans or that they are do not believe that Indians are equal to white people, so being in an environment which people think little of you would make you feel unwanted and different to everyone else. A quote that helps the point that Junior is an outsider is, “They stared at me.” The word ” stare” helps the point because by saying this, the author is implying that the white kids thought that junior wasn’t like them because when you stare at something you do it because you are not use to something or have never seen it.

Junior is introduced as an outsider in the third paragraph by the author making him take a journey through two towns. This makes him an outsider because he is travelling through two towns, which he did not know, so this made him feel like a stranger. In this paragraph Junior mentions that he feels like he is half Indian in one place and half white in the other. I think this means that Junior feels like he does not fully belong to a particular community and is outcast by most members from both communities. The phrase, “I felt like a stranger” implies that he did not feel like he belonged in the community or place he was currently in. The word stranger means a person who is unknown in a certain place, so saying that you felt like a stranger implies that you felt like nobody knew who you where in the certain place. This is how I think Junior was presented as an outsider.