This reading was about an Indian named Victor, who was on a journey to collect the ashes of his deceased father, who had moved from the reservation where he and his family resided and moved to Phoenix.
Victor didn't have all of the money to make the trip to bring the ashes back, so he got 100 dollars from the council and his childhood friend Thomas volunteered to give him the rest as long as he could come along.
Thomas was someone who no one wanted to be bothered with because he told stories and acted weird. Really it seemed like he had a spiritual gift that no one understood. He was able to feel things before they happened. I think that the people were afraid of knowing the truth or about themselves and the world that they lived in.
But Thomas and victor collected the ashes and his father's money and truck and went back to the reservation.
Victor stated that he couldn't be friends with Thomas because of who he was. I was kind of sad for Thomas because even though he showed himself to be a genuine good friend but that didn't count because of how he acted and his status in the reservation.
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I thought that Thomas' character was tragic. Had he been born when Indians still lived in the wild, he most likely would have been a respected member of the tribe as their Shaman, but, because he was born in the wrong time, he was instead ostracized.
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