Analysis Of Sherman Alexie's 'The Absolutely Time Of A Part-Time Indian'

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie shares many themes with young adults. The entire book is mainly about Arnold ( Junior ) and his “journey” about being half indian. Also shows his friendship with Rowdy his best friend. One of the themes is friendship has positive and negative sides of friendships. “ He knew he blown it.

In the book The Absolutely True Diaries of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie tells the story of Arnold, a boy who grows up on a reservation and changes schools to go to a school off the rez. He left the reservation to have a better chance at life. These are the similarities and differences between Arnolds life on the reservation and his life at reardan high school First there are many similarities between the rez and rearden. At both schools he was a basketball player.

When I was reading Sherman Alexie’s books, Blasphemy and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, I found that Alexie likes to adjust his way of writing dramatically based on his audience and the story(s) that he is trying to tell. For example, when he wrote Blasphemy he was writing to an audience that consisted more of adults that would’ve been in their early 20’s or older, based on the complexity of how this book is set up. Alexie made it so that this book was many stories of Indians, not just him or family, but a lot of people. There are some that don’t make any sense and you really have to pick it apart to understand his subtle references. His approach to writing The Absolutely True… is more for young adults, maybe 12-19 year olds,

He was quick to become irritable in situations and decided to use his anger to engage in delinquent acts such as committing robberies, and engaging in fights to feel

In comparison to the humour and separation of cultures, the relationship that is presented within both Wellpinit, and Reardan shows how the game brought together both communities. Within the passage the game is represented as a change of identity for Junior. Through Junior’s awareness of his intersecting characteristics, he was able to better acknowledge himself, and the differences between his indigenous culture and the dominant white culture. Through the overlapping of his race, class, and disability, this section of the passage focuses less on the similarities and differences but more upon the ‘connection that join them’ (Andersen & Collins 2013, p. 5).

Ups and down of friendships Friendships differ from one another. Some never end, lasting eternal and others close during childhood or adulthood, ending a chapter. In the novel of Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian observes the life of a teenage boy named Arnold J Sprite, known as Junior. Junior is a Native American who has been through alcohol abuse, poverty and stereotypes. Yet instead of surrendering, the friendship between two childhood friends kept him going.

Junior then gets an idea to go to Reardan high school so he can be with people with hope. Giving him a better future for him by a better education so he can have a good job and life when he is older. Going to Reardan will change Junior because he has a better chance he won’t turn out like his the other indians on the rez. Who had hope but got brought down because they thought they were to poor. The rez is also a setting that Sherman Alexie uses to help show us Junior’s development as a character.

Occasionally, he acts violently by attacking others. For example, while on the golf course, he and Beth get into an argument. He blames all of the family’s problems on Beth, raising his voice and

Given that the audience is teenagers who are struggling, it is an amazing book that promotes a relatable feel. Teenagers can find inspiration in following one’s dreams just like Junior does when he switches schools. They can find it helpful to see the true role of friendship being shown when Junior never gives up on Rowdy. Also, when Penelope and Roger find out that Junior is poor, and they don’t judge him. They can also find inspiration in Junior and his courage against everyday bullies on the reservation and at Rearden.

In the Holocaust, millions of people were killed due to their religious beliefs. Millions of others were killed based ethnic background, too. Ethnicity was the main factor and motivation for discrimination in all societies. When a person is discriminated against, especially in situations like the Holocaust, there is little to do to get out of this problem. Social injustice is the ignorance against or mistreatment of a certain group of people.

The narrator in the novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” is called Arnold Spirit, most people in Wellpinit called him Junior. He lived with his parents, grandmother and sister in Native American’s reservation. However, he left his hometown and study in white people’s school on Reardan in order to have a better life and reach his dream. Wellpinit and Reardon have different quality of life, future and friendship which impact Arnold’s life on vary ways. The most obvious difference between that two places are quality of life.

Sherman Alexie uses a wide variety of writing techniques to emphasize the points he tries to get across in his book, A True Diary of a Part Time Indian, about the world and his culture. Those techniques are hyperbole, parallelism, dark humor, imagery, analogies, repetition, dialogue, and improper use of language. These techniques contribute to the creative ways Alexie portrays his culture and life. In my pastiche I used repetition, analogies, and dialogue to portray my situation as if Alexie himself wrote it.

In his book the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie portrays a teenage boy, Arnold Spirit (junior) living in white man’s world, and he must struggle to overcome racism and stereotypes if he must achieve his dreams. In the book, Junior faces a myriad of misfortunes at his former school in ‘the rez’ (reservation), which occurs as he struggles to escape from racial and stereotypical expectations about Indians. For Junior he must weigh between accepting what is expected of him as an Indian or fight against those forces and proof his peers and teachers wrong. Therefore, from the time Junior is in school at reservation up to the time he decides to attend a neighboring school in Rearden, we see a teenager who is facing tough consequences for attempting to go against the racial stereotypes.

In his double life in Reardan and on the reservation, he feels “like a magician slicing himself in half, with Junior living on the north side of the river and Arnold living on the south,” (p. 60-61) “I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other. It was like being Indian was my job, but it was only part-time.” (p.118) Just as his absolutely true identity includes both Junior and Arnold, the divided extremes he describes often turn out to be hazy. Roger, the Reardan student who greets Junior in the schoolyard with a cruel racist joke, becomes a sympathetic friend and role model; Rowdy is both Junior’s greatest friend and his worst enemy, and hates him because he loves him so abundantly. Things like the basketball game Reardan wins against Wellpinit becomes both a glorious victory and a shameful moral loss for Junior.

The novel Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, By Sherman Alexie it show how Indians or African Americans struggle with who they are and who they want to be. Arnold learns how to live through and with his struggles because of how his friends accepted and helped him. In this book Alexie shows how all of Arnold’s friends helped him through different aspects in life. If he didn’t have those friends than his life would have been so much harder.