Who is the first game against? How is he treated by the crowd at the first game? How does the team (and coach) react/support him? How does this impact him?
In Arnold's first basketball game he is treated disrespectfully. Even though the coach tries to make him feel better, Arnold is still impacted by the bullying of the crowd and Rowdy, his best friend. Ever since Arnold changed schools, the reservation has treated him with disrespect. In his first basketball game against Wellpinit High School, everyone in the audience except Rowdy turned on him: “My fellow tribal members saw me and they stopped cheering, talking, moving… As one, they all turned their backs on me” (Alexie 143-144). As the game continued, someone threw a quarter at Arnold’s forehead and made him bleed. Then, after getting stitched up, he went back on to play just to get hurt again by Rowdy. Arnold realizes how much his team and coach cares for him. He is realizing how much people hate him for being an outsider.
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