My novel's protagonist is Arnold (Junior) Spirit. Arnold's main characteristics are self-doubt, ambition, perseverance and bravery. He's pretty doubtful of himself but not in an obvious way, he thinks he's not good enough but he goes ahead and tries anyway. It's kinda like his flaws aren't a bit deal to him because he's always focusing on the good in other people. "But I don't think I'll be a very good high school player. Rowdy is probably going to start varsity as a freshman, but I figure the bigger and better kids will crush me." then there's some stuff in between and he says, "But I'm more happy than scared." (Alexie, S. 28) In my opinion he's saying he's happy for Rowdy.
Arnold is pretty ambitious and courageous, he does things that seem kind of insane or impossible because he does want a better future for himself. A really good example of that would be the fact that he went to Reardan (a white school) for a better education and stood up to the people who tried to stop him. ""I want to go the Reardan," I said again. I couldn't believe I was saying it. For me, it seemed as real as saying, "I want to fly to the moon."" (Alexie S. 46) "I was defending Indians, black people and buffalo. So I punched Roger in the face." (Alexie, S. 65) Roger's one of the biggest guys in the school but despite that Arnold punched him anyway because he was standing up for himself. Finally he definitely is someone who perseveres because when things take a turn for the worst he's always trying to piece it back together and get on with whatever it was he was doing, he's very optimistic in a weird, neutral kind of way. "Ninety percent of me wanted to take the break. But I knew if I took that break I'd never make the team." (Alexie, S. 140) So in that quote Arnold's trying out for the basketball team and he ends up playing one on one against Roger (who's now his kinda sorta friend but still very big and good at basketball) and he keeps messing up but eventually he manages to win and I think that his perseverance is what got him on the team.
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