In chapter 5 “Hope Against Hope” the math teacher Mr. P visits his student Arnold in his home when Arnold is suspended from school. Arnold is surprised about the visit and also about what Mr. P talks to him. He is not angry about the fact that he threw a book into Mr. P’s face and that his nose is broken now. Instaed, Mr. P forgives Junior and even apologizes. He makes visible that he believes in Junior because he is very smart, how his big sister Mary. But she just stopped to follow her dream of becoming a romance novel writer and is now an underground dweller. So, Mr. P wants Junior to leave the reservation forever. He means that all the poeple in the reservation have given up yet but Junior still has hope. He will find more hope and more chances for his life outside the reservation, in another school.