The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian By Sherman Alexie

Mr. p was one of the biggest inspirations to juniors actions. If it weren't for him Junior would be stuck at the rez forever and most likely become like all the other adults, drunk and angry. When junior began his journey to achieve his goals at Reardan it was very difficult. He was the only “different” kid there. Different meaning he was the only Indian in a school of white kids.

In the late 1800 's into the 1900 's and beyond Native American Indians, fought in pursuit of protecting their land. However, years passed and Native Americans were stripped away from their homes and forced to be in reservation camps where many face problems related to health, poverty and alcoholism. The reservations served as a way to segregate Native Americans and today, there are approximately 560 federally recognized Native American Tribes in the United States. (Rose,”The history of Native American Indians”) The Absolute True Diary of A Part-Time Indian written by Sherman Alexie, tells the story of Arnold, a Native American teenage boy who struggles with life and takes it day by day.

Analytical Reader Response In the book “The Absolute True Dairy of a Part Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie the reader can see Junior’s Grandmother Spirit representing the past and the old Indian Traditions. On the other hand, the author Alexie allows us to connect Junior’s character to the title of why Junior calls himself a part-time Indian. Most importantly when Junior leaves Wellprinit to go to Reardan to become better his reservation see him as a “traitor”. Ironically while Junior thinks he is becoming a part-time Indian the reality is that he learning in becoming the old kind of a traditional Indian.

In the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Native American author Sherman Alexie covers the struggles of Indians living in poverty on the Spokane Indian Reservation. This story tells about Junior’s upbringing on the reservation and informs people about his family's struggles with poverty and the hardships they had to face because of it. Alexie uses conflict, irony, and symbolism. To help people understand the idea of poverty on the rez, and how it affected him, his freinds, and family. Alexie uses symbolism to represent poverty on the Spokane reservation.

Bang!My nose bled like a firework.” on page 52, Rowdy hit Junior because he was moving schools and Rowdy got mad at him because he wasn’t going to have a best friend at school. This evidence clearly shows that he was a bully since he almost seemed to demoralize Junior and his decisions about going to a better school that would benefit him, he discourage Junior by hurting him physically at times when he felt like he would never stop stomping; he was very

Alexie uses this setting to show how one’s environment and community can affect their behavior. Another source that backs up these claims is The Science of Adolescence Risk-Taking; according to the chapter the influence of Environment a person’s living condition has an effect on their attitude. The text states that people who are poverty stricken tend to have “negative attitudes such as: despondency, depression, anger, or aggression” (Institute of Medicine (US) and National Research Council (US) Committee on the Science of Adolescence). According to both Tama Leventhal and Deborah Gorman-Smith, livings in a more “affluent neighborhood” children are given more advantages which are associated with academic success. Leventhal states that “living in a poor neighborhood places adolescents in terms of a host of behavioral, social, and sexual risk behaviors.

Lyric Sinan Sinanian Mr. Rodriguez Academic Literacy 21 April 2023 The Issue of Poverty The damaging consequences of poverty are a big issue in America, and have raised in severity over the years. In the realistic fiction novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, the life of a poor Native American exhibits the terrors of poverty and how it can affect families within the poor communities in the country. The economically unfortunate have seen the worse come over them and their family.

The Part- Time Indian The book, The Part- Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, is a book that school should keep encouraging students to read this because students should learn about American-Indians, the student can relate to it, and it shows how to help people to work together. Sometimes students are not aware of what American-Indians have gone through in American history. Indians were exposed to horrible fighting and were kicked out of their reservations because new settlers wanted to take over. Many were killed and taken from their settlements. An example from the book is when Junior punched Roger in the face.

Junior loses a lot of friends and family at the young age of fourteen. He gets bullied because he was born with too much cerebral spinal fluid inside his skull, but he has his best friend Rowdy there to help him. Junior realizes that he needs to leave the reservation to get a better life for himself. He goes to a new school off the

Anna Theune Instructor: Young English 102 9 June 2023 The Unspoken Truth In “Indian Education,” Sherman Alexie provides many elements with underlying meanings that play a major role in the daily life of the narrator. One of these underlying elements is the lack of stability and marginalized existence. The narrator says, “I was always falling down” (Alexie).

Antonio Huie-Pasigan Mr. Rodriguez Academic Literature 21, April 2023 The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Essay Imagine being poor with barely enough money for basic necessities like food, gas, and clothing. This is the daily life of Arnold “Junior” Spirit, a native american who goes to a white school, and is the protagonist of The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Coming from a Native American reservation in Spokane Washington, his social status conflicts with his school, but that doesn’t stop him.

In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, the author discusses the theme

Austin Jehle Ms. Mulvaney ELA 4 10 January 2023 Analysis Essay Depending on how an author goes about writing a story it can develop their themes in different ways based on the interactions of their characters and the conflicts that they have along the way. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie one of the many themes that are developed in the story is Hope. The theme of hope plays a big part in the story since Junior, who is the main character, is constantly moving forward in order to find hope in spite of his bleak circumstances. Throughout the novel the themes Hope and dreams are developed by the multiple conflicts that Junior is faced with on the reservation and at Reardan.

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.

Throughout the novel the reader can see that Junior and Rowdy’s friendship slowly grows apart, which is what causes tensions between the two during the game. When the coach tells Junior he is guarding Rowdy that night, he says, “ I don’t think I can do this,”(188) which shows Junior’s lack of self-confidence. He starts the game and as Rowdy steals the ball, Junior chases after him. Junior says to the reader his calculations of what he needs to do in order to stop Rowdy. “I couldn’t foul him.