In the following I am going to analyze Junior´s emotions and feelings.
The first stylistic device can be found on page 17, ,,I wish I were magical,but I am really just a poor-ass reservation kid living with his poor-ass family on the poor-ass Spokane Indian Reservation´´,ll.8 ,this example is an enumeration.This enumeration shows how sad Junior really feels.The reader becomes impressions of Junior´s daily life situation and about how poor he is.It seems like he feels like something that isn´t important for everyone.From line 14-15 the reader becomes impressions about junior´s empty stomach and what he would give to have a real meal again.He is sad and helpless.Furthermore the author uses a climax page 17 ,ll. 6 and 7 , ,,But I can’t do that.Nobody can do that,not even the hungriest magician in the world.In this example the author uses the climax to show,that Junior only wants to live a good life and not the life he is living.He just wants to be in a normal family and living in a family where food is something normal.On page 19 the author uses an enumeration to show that Oscar his dog really feels bad and that it makes him really sad,too.Junior is scared about losing Oscar,because it is the only one who truly understands him.He is really sad about Oscars situation and how he feels ,,I figured he´d be okay with some rest,but then he started vomiting, and diarrhea blasted out of him, and he had these seizures where his little legs just kicked and kicked and kicked. ´´ Moreover there is a repetition ,,There was nothing I could do to save Oscar.Nothing.Nothing.Nothing´´,ll.14. By using this repetition the author gives the impression to the reader that Junior can’t do nothing at all.He is helpless.helpless and Sad by thinking about how Oscar has to die ,because of the family´s poorness,who can’t pay oscars medicines.On page 21 there is an alliteration ,,I wanted to punch my dad in the face.I wanted to punch him in the nose and make him bleed.I wanted to punch him in the eye and make him blind.I wanted to kick him in the balls and make him pass out.´´,ll.1. By using this stylistic device the reader really understands how important Junior to Oscar is.Junior is completely alone and there i really nobody who understands him.It becomes clear,that junior feels really aggressive by the thought of his dad. Another stylistic device is on page 21 in line 5 , ,,I was hot mad.Volcano mad.tsunami mad.´´, by using this climax the reader can see how aggressive,sad and lonely junior is. Nobody understands him and he only feels aggressive and disappointed by the thought what his parents are able to do with his dog oscar.The other alliteration is on page 21,too ,,I wanted to hate him for weakness.I wanted to hate Dad and Mom for our poverty.I wanted to blame them for my sick dog and for all the other sickness in the world.´´ll.8. By using this alliteration , the reader becomes part of Junior´s feelings about his parents and how much he hates the poorness.
In conclusion it can be said that Junior really feels sad.He feels lonely and he feels like nobody understands him.The lost of Oscar makes him feel lonelier than everything. Junior has nobody.