#3 "I don't know if hope is white. But I do know that hope for me is like some knid of mythical creature."

On page 51, Arnold says "I don't know if hope is white. But I do know that hope for me is like some knid of mythical creature." By this, he means he doesn't have hope. He's never seen hope, just like he's never seen a unicorn or dragon flying over Spokane. He wants to go to Reardon because the white people there have hope. They have futures, and he doesn't as long as he stays on the rez, so he sort of becomes a white person.  He thinks of the kids at Reardon and the hope that they have as a mythical creature, and he's going to go find that mythical creature. By going to Reardon, he is finding hope.