Read the following quotation from the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part –Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. In a complete and well supported paragraph express what the excerpt means in the context of the independent reading you have completed in class. Use specific evidence from both the book and one independent reading article to support your response.
Quote #1
Due on Monday, October 13, 2014
"If you stay on this rez," Mr. P said, "they're going to kill you. I'm going to kill you. We're all going to kill you. You can't fight us forever."
"I don't want to fight anybody," I said.
"You've been fighting since you were born," he said. "You fought off that brain surgery. You fought off those seizures. You fought off all the drunks and drug addicts. You kept your hope. And now, you have to take your hope and go somewhere where other people have hope."
I was starting to understand. He was a math teacher. I had to add my hope to somebody else's hope. I had to multiply my hope.
"Where is hope?" I asked. "Who has hope?"
"Son," Mr. P said. "You're going to find more and more hope the farther and farther you walk away from this sad, sad, sad reservation." (p. 43)
