#42 Explain the significance of "Every white person on this rez should get smashed in the face. But let me tell you this. All Indians should get smashed in the face, too"

  Mr. P thinks that the Native Americans on the reservation has given up hope and everything that mattered in their lives. People have no dreams, or goals, or ambitions, or anything that keeps a person going and not being turned into a walking dead. Though there are still some who had dreams, like Juniors mother, father and sister, their hope, or any chance of achieving their goals, is ripped away from them. Like what Junior said "but they never got the chance... (Alexie 11)", their dreams are not being noticed, and finally they give up on themselves and give in to alcohol, poverty, and the chance of ever being "alive" again. In the books  that are about Nazi concentration camps, the survivors tells of a kind of people they call "Zombies", who is being worked and worked until they have no dreams of things getting better, no hope of ever escaping this hell on Earth, and most sadly, no souls. They just sat in a corner and moaned for all day long. The Native Americas on the reservation may not be like the "Zombies", but they are close, really close. In conclusion, the Native Americans are being taught and influenced into knowing only to give up and not to be resilient. However one Spokane might prove me wrong, and that is Arnold Spirit Jr., who will eventually escape the reservation prison and find his hopes and dreams, which may be closer to him than he thinks.