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Crazy Courage Quote Analysis

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Courage is exemplified in the novel by, “They wanted a better life for my sister and me. My sister is running away to get lost, but I am running away because I want to find something.” (page:46) “You’ll be the first one to ever leave the reservation this way,” Mom said. (page:47) Junior attending Reardan an all-white school even though, he know want he would be known as traitor on the reservation. “I felt brave all of a sudden. Yeah, maybe it was just a stupid fight. Or maybe it was the most important moment of my life. Maybe I was telling the world that I was no longer a human target.” (page:65) Stand up to his bully, Roger, for telling a racist joke and not becoming a human punching anymore. “I wanted to tell him that I thought I was being

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