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Page 48: The character feels this way because this is what he has been taught all his life, that India don”t deserve jack. All he’s know are than Indians are meant to be poor drunks, so it's hard for him to think differently. Feeling poor and worthless while going to a school of white happy middle class kids makes Arnold feel like dirt. Not only does he have to use a garbage bag as some sort of book bag, he now has to go somewhere that is the opposite of what's he’s used to.
Page 7: The character feels this way because the economic struggles he and his family are going through leaves Arnold in a depressed state. Being poor has limit Arnold's choices, he cannot do what a normal teenage boy can. Arnold tries many creative ways to get out of
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