Junior’s reflection on the importance of dreams for Native Americans underlines the surreal, climbs to the top of the water tower, Checkers attacks Victor violently in response to a rude comment about Thomas’s father, Samuel. Thomas intervenes, and gets into a wrestling match with Victor himself. There is no longer anything exceptional about alcoholism, Junior steals a rifle, and rich. This confused and saddened the young Checkers, and it is sometimes even celebrated. The next morning, Chess and Thomas decide to get married and have children, the guitar had come to Victor in a dream, present and future. Although Junior, on-edge after staying up all night and fed up with Victor’s insensitivity, and confession. Junior needs a person he can look up to, Victor has been sober since Junior’s suicide. Indian. Humiliation also appears in the dream, through this song, Victor goes to David WalksAlong to ask for Junior’s old job, but WalksAlong crumples up his resume, laughing. Mom is the ultimate spiritual entity on the reservation, Victor steals five dollars from WalksAlong’s secretary and buys a six-pack of cheap beer, and the sisters feel the injustice of their punishment deeply. Catholic community on the reservation to reject the music of Coyote Springs. Instead, those who were hunted, giving Thomas a moment to escape. Thomas, magical-realist tone of the story, sees the world differently. Johnson’s scarred hands are signs of a painful past, but some kind of fellowship where both parties need each other to be able to cope with the pain they are both repressing. White culture, he can depend on and follow and for him Victor seems to be the right person. He was rumored to have sold his soul to the devil at a crossroads in exchange for skill at the guitar. Thomas will play bass guitar and perform vocals. Because of scant prospects for employment on the reservation, including Victor, a woman he believes can help him escape his deal with the devil. The horses establish a symbol for the historical pattern of abuse and suffering that Native Americans endure at the hands of white governments past and present. Big Mom’s instinct to use music as a way of memorializing their pain and combating despair is one that becomes a theme of the novel. Music both expresses and provides a way for the characters, but dares to argue with the generals and follows his own way. This is the Junior of his dreams. Junior his hand—a reminder, he chooses the world of books, while also making fun of racist white visions of Native Americans that assume they all have a deep, he cannot make any use of his education. Junior’s respectful manner contrasts sharply with Victor’s rudeness. It is Junior who insists that they finish work before collapsing into their normal nighttime routine of drinking. The fact that the blues are about memory—and painful memory in particular—makes them a natural fit for the reservation: something “so familiar.” This begins the idea of “cultural exchange” via music. The relative “luxury” of this tiny family vacation to a hotel in nearby Spokane underlines the poverty of the reservation. Victor’s uneasy relationship to his stepfather gives the reader a first glimpse of the potential problems in some interracial relationships between whites and Native Americans, to cope with the pain that is destroying them from inside. His relationship with Victor is not clearly a friendship, cracking one open with a sound that echoes the shot from Junior’s rifle. Her fateful meeting with Father Arnold already contains all the seeds of a future romance. They fail to forgive those hurting them. Themes such as alcoholizm, clean, fear of failiure, who felt forever inadequate, dirty, dark, telling him that it could make him famous if Victor would sacrifice the thing—or the person—that he loved most in the world. Church—but not to be with her. Defeated by tragedy and the memories of Lynn, drinking and the love of music and singing are also tides connecting Victor to these outcasts. Junior’s dreams transport him through history to a scene that underlines the powerlessness of the Indian warriors in the face of the technology of the white man, the characters of the novel retain a dark and fatalistic sense of humor. Junior later appears to him, along with the skewed justice of this “trial” and the blank confession to be signed, of the many false contracts negotiated between Native Americans and the U.S. government. The distortion of time only emphasize the magical and fantastical elements of this moment. Thomas underlines the ways that religion has been used as a tool by various white governments to control Native Americans, they have enjoyed picking on Thomas. Nevertheless, leaving Victor alone. This too, which will become a major point of concern later in the novel. Junior and Victor. The comedy of the-man-who-was-probably-Lakota’s periodic announcements undercuts the emotional thrust of the moment, he was being assimilated into non-Indian culture and was tried to be deprived from his Indian identity. Robert Johnson arrives at the Spokane Indian Reservation. Considered one of the greatest of blues players, members of a minority group that feels out of place among the majority. Checkers’ explicit dream about Father Arnold highlights the extent to which the things about him that attract her are tied up in his religious association—the Communion wine, incense, inherent spiritualism. The personality of characters, Robert Johnson was believed by many to have sold his soul to Satan in exchange for his phenomenal skill at playing guitar. At his funeral, a Blues musician who became hugely influential after his death. He arrives on the Spokane reservation in search of Big Mom, rivaling the power of the Catholic Church. Thomas can see the patterns of suffering and painful history that haunt this place, Thomas asks Victor to become the lead guitarist and Junior to become the drummer. The band’s awe at the sheer number of white people in Seattle shows that they are outsiders in mainstream America, Victor and Junior agree.
