#4

          While reading chapters 8-10 of Reservation Blues, I realized this book actually connected to my life and a book I have read this year in English class. When Chess and Thomas felt like their was nothing left they could do to save Junior and Victor they decide to call it quits. "Forget them, its all over now, anyways. Cant you feel it?" (p. 231) This quote reminds me of myself in a way. When things get tough I was always the first one to give up. It may just be me, but once a situation is no longer able to be fixed or just doesn't go my way I lose all motivation to try and fix it. Chess and Thomas also quit looking for their friends when they realized how hard it was going to be. Even though you shouldn't give up on anything before you try, sometimes people just cant resist it.
          This section of the book also reminded me of the Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. "I can't marry you. Lynn had said. You're an Indian, (p. 240). Lynn, a women Junior dated, and was in love with, announced that she could no longer be with him because he was an Indian. She had this perfect picture painted in her head that society had influenced of a white women and a white male happily together. Therefore, she couldn't try to change the perfect societal picture by marrying an Indian man. This chapter reminds me of Daisy and Gatsby in the Great Gatsby. Daisy was truly in love with Gatsby, but couldn't marry him because he was from new money instead of old money. Society has complete control over someone's love for one another. Just because society tells you what the norm is doesn't mean you have to follow it, be a conformist and stick up for something you want to.