Where is hope?

Hello everybody, so in this entry I will talk about some things that called my attention of the book “The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian”.


It's interesting because, it could be like a cliché story, it’s the kind of literature that sometimes we are tired of reading, but this one is narrated in a very funny and ironic way that makes it so different and it feels so real and near to us. The story is told by the main carácter, Junior, he suffered all kinds of struggles in his life, being born with “water on the brain”, being bullied because of the physical consequences he suffered from his brain damage, social and economic problems, and the most important thing he was Indian. So what’s the deal here, being poor for being Indian?  Being set apart from society for being INDIAN?
There is this special character at the beginning of the story, Mr. P, whose speech and talking with Junior after he hits him, is very interesting, which makes the kid take a big decision.


“You have to leave this reservation"
"I’m going to Spokane with my dad later”
“No I mean you have to leave the rez forever (…) All these kids had given up,” he said. “All your friends.  All the bullies and everybody here have given up. We’re all defeated”
“But not you,” Mr. P said. “You can’t give up. You won’t give up. You threw that book in my face because somewhere inside you refuse to give up.”(…) “You kept your hope. And now, you have totake your hope and go somewhere where other people have hope.”  


                             

So this speech is full of things you can reflect on, is very deep and it makes us think sometimes where is hope? Do we really have to go somewhere to find it? The thing is that we live in a society where things like this happen everyday, discrimination, racism and so on.
Hope keeps us up, but where is it really?