Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
Colonel Sanders, Eat Your Heart Out
... especially because Junior can't eat his heart out. His family doesn't even have the cash necessary to eat regularly:
Okay, so now you know that I'm a cartoonist. And I think I'm pretty good at it, too. But no matter how good I am, my cartoons will never take the place of food or money. I wish I could draw a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, or a fist full of twenty dollar bills, and perform some magic trick and make it real. But I can't do that. Nobody can do that, not even the hungriest magician in the world.
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. (2.1-2.2)
But if he could, he'd eat KFC three times a day. Chicken is really important to Arnold, since he's almost always hungry. Food—and money—is scarce on the reservation. While KFC might seem like fast food to some, the treat amounts to a holy experience for Arnold. Check out Arnold's drawing of the shroud of Kentucky Fried Chicken (figure 2.1).