Answer:
it changes the relationship between the narrator and his brother.
it prevents the narrator from making friends on the reservation , forcing him to befriend his teammates
Explanation:
Mary and her husband died in a trailer-house fire less than three months after Big Mom. Alexie notes, “In six months, my mother had lost her mother, daughter, and brother. I was not a superstitious kid but I worried that I had jinxed our family when I’d left the rez school. But then I reasoned, “Hey, I still live on the rez. I just go to a different school. There’s no reason for our family to be cursed. "Today, as a nonsuperstitious adult, I still worry that I’m at fault. It’s a ridiculous narcissistic worry, but real nonetheless.” (pgs 203-204)
