The reading strategy that I am going to use is evaluation. At this point in the story, the narrorator says that he is just a “poor-ass reservation kid living with his poor-ass family on the poor-ass Spokane Indian Reservation” [Alexie 14]. He then talks about his parents. He wants to blame them for their poverty, but he can’t. He loves them way to much. He says that it is not their fault because their parents were born into poverty, and their parents were born into poverty, and so on. Junior continues to explain his parents and what they could have been. His father could have been a succesful musician, and his mother could have been a teacher. I can evaluate from all of this that Junior’s life will be a major struggle due to his poverty.