Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Class #4

Why, despite the obvious danger, does the narrator decide to fight Junior?
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  1. wayneDecember 9, 2009 at 3:30 PM

    Edgar wants to be in the group (Class) of Indian. In his opinion, most of Indians like to fight and speak F-word, so he decides to fight Junior. As the result of fighting with Junior, his nose is broken, one of his braids is missing, and his left eye is swelling shut. It seems he is a member of the class of Sissy, but Sissy doesn’t agree. She says “We’re not your people” and then, she explains that Junior and her belong to the group which has to suffer hunger, and Edgar is in the other group which doesn’t need to worry about foods, but anything else, such as identity, love, or mortgage.

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  2. dtwelve89December 9, 2009 at 7:58 PM

    I agree with Wayne, despite the obvious danger, the narrator decides to fight Junior in hopes of rekindling his Indian heritage. He thought maybe if he entered battle he would be able to draw the ancestral warrior spirit, the "Crazy Horse" out of himself. He had lived in the other upper-class world for so long that he had completely lost connection with his roots. Now that he was tired of playing pretend in his world of White people and lawyers, he wanted to see what the other world was like.

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  3. raisinsklDecember 10, 2009 at 12:54 AM

    I agree with Wayne and dtwelve89， despite the obvious danger, Edgar decided to fight Junior because he wanted other people, like Junior, to treat/view him like the other Indian despite how he had lived long in the upper-class world. He still inherited his roots and connected with his culture

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  4. Benson O.oDecember 10, 2009 at 10:14 AM

    Eventhough it's very dangerous that fight with Junior, but narrator decided to do so because he wants to come closer to the Indian party. He wants to use "Indian" ways to solve the problems.On the other hand, he wants to show that he is not a "white boy" working in the office, but he has Indian blood. However, because of his dressing, his job, his position, he is still in the upper-class world from Junior and Sissy.

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  5. xiao-liDecember 10, 2009 at 8:16 PM

    • As what Wayne said, Edgar just wanted to fit in the group that he feel belong to (Indian) and it may easily way to do. At the bar with Junior and sissy, Edgar didn’t think about the danger of fighting with Junior although Sissy told him not to. He just wanted to get a change to fit in the group/class he wanted. Edgar married with a white woman and live in a high social class; he is a lawyer and he don’t have to worry about the financial problem like Junior and Sissy but he‘s not happy about that. He didn’t feel he belong to the white community.

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  6. AndcliuDecember 11, 2009 at 2:16 PM

    Despite the danger, the narrator decided to fight Junior because I think he felt like he neglected him true and real self for too long. He probably felt guilty for lying to himself for so long throughout his life. He wanted to prove himself that he is who he really is by fighting junior. Since I think most Inidians have a long ancestral past of human sacrifice and violence he wanted to prove to everyone and himself that he is actually Inidian.

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  7. kalDecember 13, 2009 at 7:28 PM

    Part of his motives are because Edgar told him every this that he is but put it in a way that made the narrator hate who he has become after working so hard to get there is. His other motive is to impress Sissy so she would sleep with him. I say this because he wanted to sleep with her in the first place and after the fight, when he wakes up, he makes a move on her thinking that she took him to the back to have sex with him.

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