Alcoholism In Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Bravery
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Junior, a fourteen-year-old boy living on a Spokane reservation, leaves his disadvantaged situation to attend an all-white school and follow hope of a better education and life. The fellow Indians on his reservation are extremely poor, and many have forsaken their ambitions to enter into the vicious cycle of alcoholism. Bravery play a large role in this novel, as Junior fights poverty, discrimination, and grief. He has grown up in a life being expected to give up. Yet he rebels against this fate and risks everything for hope, even when the tribe turns against him and he loses a sense of belonging. At his new school, Reardan, Junior finds himself isolated. Even when he meets friends and becomes more accepted, he is still sticks out among his