In the book "Ten Little Indians." by Sherman Alexie, there is a story called “Whatever Happened to Frank Snake Church.” Frank Snake Church went through so much from losing his mom at the age of 18 because of cancer, from having a vision that his father was dead, then his father passing, and Frank losing his basketball career. Frank loved basketball so much that he sacrificed it and gave it up because his mom passed away. Before he has given up basketball it was his dream to become someone big. He loved basketball so much, and even his parents played it in his school. In “Whatever Happened to Frank Snake Church” Frank used basketball to avoid the normal challenges, joys, and disappointments of everyday life. It started off with a memory when Frank was 11 years old; he found out that his mother played basketball as well. They were at a picnic and Frank wanted to play but his father didn’t want to play with him. His father told him to play with his mother, but Frank wanted to play with someone that was good in basketball and his father said, “ Our dear Helen was a cannibal on the basketball court” (218), but Frank thought he was lying to him. He couldn’t believe that his mother played basketball as well. He loved his mother even more since that day. When his mother passed away of cancer he decided that he wanted to give up something valuable to him and bury it with his mother, and it was basketball that he buried. “ He left the ball at the park, helped bury his mother that afternoon, and had not played the game since.” (202) He has given something up that was so valuable to him, so he basically had lost two important things in his life in one day His father passes and now he unburies basketball because he needed something to do. He wanted basketball to make him whole again so he started to play again. He played to honor his father, “He’d given up this game to honor his mother, and now he was reclaiming it to hono