In the first chapter, it seems to me that junior suffered from all sorts of medical conditions from a young age more than other ordinary kids. Junior is a down-to-earth person. He doesn’t mind speaking about the embarrassing moments that he had gone through yet he makes fun of it. Drawing is another way he likes to express himself and he believes that drawings have no communication barrier unlike languages. And by drawing, he hopes that he can escape the reservation that he lives in right now. 

I can feel that junior is determined from escaping the reservation, but if he is happy in the reservation why does he want to leave the reservation?  What is so bad living in a reservation? Besides no one is really locked at a reservation, he can always go pass the reservation if he feels melancholy.

I’m guessing that Maybe junior is actually a kind of person who hides the true feeling and expresses the opposite of how he/she really feels because he was always been teased when he was young, so to overcome the anger and pain he would just comfort himself by behaving the opposite.