1. Characters
   1. Arnold Spirit Junior
      1. Born with water on the brain
      2. Stutters and lisps
      3. Huge head, hands and feet
      4. Had 42 teeth instead of 32
      5. Used to have seizures
      6. Nearsighted in one eye, farsighted in the other, wears glasses
      7. Skinny
      8. Poor
      9. Got beaten up and called a retard
      10. Friends with Rowdy
      11. Transferred to Reardan
      12. Plays basketball
      13. Loves to draw
   2. Mum
      1. Maiden name Agnes Adams
      2. Would have gone to college
      3. Reads books
      4. Has a good memory
      5. Drinks
   3. Dad
      1. Drinks
      2. Would have been a musician
   4. Sister
      1. Mary Runs Away
      2. Wanted to write romance novels
      3. Got married
      4. Passed away when trailer caught fire
   5. Rowdy
      1. Gets beat up by his drunk dad
      2. 'Toughest kid on the rez'
      3. Reads comics
   6. Subtopic 4
   7. Subtopic 5
2. Plot
3. Themes
   1. Racism
      1. "So what was I doing in racist Reardan..." pg.56
   2. Alcoholism
      1. Most Indians on the rez are alcoholics
   3. Friendship
      1. Junior and Rowdy
         1. These two were friends on the rez, until Junior decided he wanted to go to Reardan. This friendship revolved around Junior being protected, so Rowdy could have someone to talk to.
         2. "He (Rowdy) doesn't hurt you because you're the only good thing in his life. He doesn't want to give that up" pg. 42
         3. "I realised how much of my self-worth, my sense of safety, was based on Rowdy's fists." pg.68
      2. Junior and Gordy
         1. Junior first encounters Gordy in Science class, when Arnold
      3. Junior and Penelope
      4. Junior and Roger
   4. Bullying
   5. Culture
   6. Socioeconomic status
      1. Indians on the reservation
         1. "... I am really just a poor-ass reservation kid living with his poor-ass family on the poor-ass Spokane Indian Reservation." pg. 7
      2. White people
4. Settings
   1. Reardan
      1. School
         1. A white school filled with racist students
         2. "But Reardan has one of the best small schools in the state, with a computer room and huge chemistry lab and a drama club and two basketball gyms." pg 46
      2. Town
   2. The rez
      1. Spokane Indian Reservation
      2. In the Northern Eastern portion of the US state of Washington
      3. Subtopic 3
   3. Subtopic 3
5. Author