Injun Joe is what everyone calls a "half-breed". He is half Native American and half American. He obviously wouldn't fit in anywhere because when he is with Americans, people think he is strange, and then when he goes to his tribe he wouldn't be able to completely blend in either. I think this is part of his motivation for being so harsh and unforgiving to others. No one ever fully accepts him because he is so different and foreign.
When Injun Joe goes with Muff Potter and the doctor to dig out the grave and steal the body I think his internal motivation was that he wanted money and revenge on the doctor. His external motivation was why he wanted revenge. When Injun Joe kills the doctor and tells Muff Potter that Muff was the one who did it, his internal motivation was that he knew he would be in trouble if people found out it was he who killed the doctor, and when he blames it on Muff Potter his external motivation was that Muff was drunk, and had been hit in the head so it was easy to convince Muff Potter that he was the murderer of the doctor. His external motivation for killing the doctor was how the doctor was rude to him when they were children by not giving him enough food and saying that he wasn't good enough for it.
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