This was our second literature circle rotation. I am Vishesh and I was the summariser whose job as the title may suggest is to summarize the section read. This was my summary of the section I read.
This time the section started off with Junior lazy because he had no friend at the beginning of the section. He eventually made a friend possibly the nerdiest kid at school and also the weirdest kid at school, Gordy. Soon enough he met Penny once again and one thing had led them to another and then they ended up dating.
There was a dance in the school gym where Junior had to show up wearing his father’s suit from the 70’s with bell bottoms. He wasn’t a good dancer but people still got jealous because he was dating Penny. After the dance the group Junior, Penny, Arnold and his friends went to have dinner in a restaurant, when they find out that Junior is poor. Despite such a big secret being revealed Penny and Arnold did not tell anyone else, they gave Junior a ride home instead of being cross with him showing their true friendship.
On the other hand Junior receives several emails from his sister informing him that she was in Montana and she was safe etc.
A few days upon finding out about the poverty Junior tries out for the basketball team. He gets chosen and his first game was against his own old school Wellpint, even worse the match was in Wellpint’s gym in the rez almost everyone despised Junior. This showed when it was his turn to play but even before he had contact of the ball he was knocked out by a quarter that was thrown by one of the audience members, which drew blood. His team lost because Rowdy scored a lot of points. They played against Wellpint some other time as well. This time the whole team had the determination to win and the anger from losing last time. What made it even better is that this game was not in Wellpint, it was in Reardan with a white audience, this audience was a very calm one unlike the last one. This game they won, the main reason for them winning was because this time Junior was guarding Rowdy. He got lucky and blocked one of Rowdy’s dunks. This left him dumbstruck and unable to concentrate on the game properly. Since he was the team’s best player and he had lost concentration the team lost. When they defeated Wellpint Juniour couldn’t help but feel guilty because he knew that Rowdy would probably get beaten up because of him but even worse some of them had just this game to make them happy because they are going through the roughest of times.
All the Karma and god believer now could say that karma hit Junior hard. Later in the book we found out that Junior’s grandmother died and so did his sister. His grandmother died in an accident prior to his sister. The grandma was hit by a drunk driver. Grandma’s last wish was for him to be excused for his mistake. His sister died due to drinking which was a very common cause of death in the rez. She was in a party where she passed out. Her trailer where the party took place had caught fire but Mary was so heavily passed out that she sleep through her own death.
Rowdy had blamed Junior for his sister’s death. After all this some memories of Rowdy and Junior were shared with the reader, at the end of the book we found out that Rowdy and Junior became friends again when they were playing basketball 1 v 1.
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