Question # 1 Why does Rowdy tell Arnold, “You killed her” (211)? Is there truth to this statement?
(Ryan Nepal)

Rowdy tells Arnold “you killed her” (211) because Rowdy feels as though Arnold’s choice to
leave the reservation, impacted his sister to also became brave and leave to go to Montana. After
Rowdy accuses Junior of killing his sister, Junior starts to believe it too, “Rowdy was right. I had
killed my sister… she only got married so quickly and left the rez because I had left the rez first”
(211). There isn’t any truth to this statement because  Junior didn’t physically kill his sister, and
Junior’s sister might have been affected by Arnold’s bravery to leave the reservation, but she wasn’t
inspired to throw a house party in her trailer, and get so heavily intoxicated with her friends, that
someone would burn the trailer down. Rowdy doesn’t believe that Junior physically killed her,
but he does believe that his choice influenced and led up to what happened. In a way, all of the
events that took place linked, and Although Junior’s sister might of followed her little brother’s
footsteps, her death was not his fault in any way.