The book we were reading is called The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, and was written by Sherman Alexie. The main characters in the story are Junior, Rowdy,Mr. P, Mary, and his family. I enjoyed the book because it was was interesting to me and was different compared to the other books I have read. My favorite moment in the book was when Junior punched Roger because I thought they were going to fight, and it shows that junior has power to fight for his rights, and to show he's not just a idian from a poor town. Junior is the main charecter in the story, Junior is a idian who is really skinny, has a big head because a type of brain damage, he wears glasses and has pointy hair. Juniors personality …show more content…
She is a indian, with a lightning bolt tatoo, and medium length hair. Her personalitys contain reading and writting about romance. She is important in Juniors life because she moved away and died. Her problems were becoming a better person and getting a education in collage. Juniors grandmother is also important in his life because she changed how people treated her. She is a indian, older lady with white hair. Her personalitys is being sweet to everyone no matter who they are. Shes important because she meant a lot to Junior and when she died people started to treat Junior with respect. She encountered problems like living life as a poor indian. Last juniors parents, his mom is a older indian with short hair, she loves to read. His dad is a older indian with long hair, and loves to play the sax. There important to the story because they help junior go to school miles away and still manage to be parents. They encounterd problems by dealing with Marys death and taking care of Junior. The story mainly talks about Junior and his problems through out high school and middle school. The story explains juniors conflicts and how he made changes to become a bettter person. The story takes place while Juniors in high school and middle school. The setting of the story is at the rez and the high schools. The story happend because Junior had a hard time going through high school. It happend because the way junior reacted to the conflicts in
To begin with, the important characters in this book includes: Tj, his parent, and foster home kids. TJ is the main character who is used and abused by his parents. Even as young child TJ's parent treated him as an adult, but even though they abused him badly they still played
F. Scott Fitzgerald once said “First you take a DRINK then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” Later Fitzgerald capitulated and died of a heart attack due to being an alcoholic the last 2 years of his life. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian written by Sherman Alexie talks about a 14 year old Indian boy changing his life. He goes to a white school, and changes into a different person throughout the story. The story talks about other real life dilemmas, like death and alcohol. There are multiple themes that are present throughout the story, but one theme that protrudes is that alcoholism kills.
Also Julian wants to be the popular one and to be the hero, but I think he's fine just the way he is. Also every day he finds new experiences and sometimes forgets about his childhood thoughts. And in the story, Julian and his brothers have to stay out of trouble, protect themselves, and to problem solve.
S.E. Hinton, author of The Outsiders, tells a story about two gangs in Oklahoma that hate each other. Both gangs think that the other gang is totally different than they are, but they come to find out that they share a lot more traits than they thought. My character, Ponyboy Curtis, is an intelligent and caring kid who is the youngest child in the Curtis family. Without Ponyboy, the novel would be totally different.
Throughout the story, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Junior goes through many ups and downs. This story is about how Junior, an indian from the Spokane reservation, decides to go to Rearden, the school for non-indians because of how run-down his school is and has trouble fitting in. Some of the ways Junior dealt with those downs include his uncanny sense of humor, his love for his friends, and the want to fit in and prove he’s just as good as everyone else at his new school.
The three important characters in this story are Lara Jean, Genevieve, and Peter. Lara Jean is a 16-year old high school girl. She is the protagonist. Lara Jean is Korean-American with long black hair and a pale, slender body, she is a bit childlike, and is referred to as innocent throughout the story. “The thing is… I’ve never had a boyfriend before.”(117) When Lara Jean says this to Peter he wasn’t very surprised by is. It wasn’t because of her personality, but because of how careful and scared she is to love. The next important character is Genevieve, also known as Gen. She is the antagonist, she is petite with fit arms and sunny blonde hair the color of margarine. The final important character is Peter. The reader doesn’t get a good physical description of him. He is very arrogant, a jock, known as popular, and referred to as a player. Peter is Lara Jeans first actual love.”But tonight he said he liked me. The thing I’ve been hoping for, he said it.”
In ''The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian'', Arnold spirit, who is an Indian boy, lives on a Spokane Indian Reservation with alchoholic parents. Adding to that, he is a hydrocephalic, which has affected his speaking ability and he had to deal with being bullied and getting picked on in school. However, he wants to overcome these challenges and move on in life to something better, because he is dissatisfied with the situation he is in. Later in the story, he decides to go to a white school where he begins feeling like a part-time indian.
As Diary of a Part Time Indian progresses and Junior enrolls in Reardan, he continues to belief that he does not deserve hope, unlike the kids at Reardan, but not necessarily because of his race anymore. Resulting from his choice to leave the reservation, Junior struggles to fit in at Reardan, but not leave his identity behind, since for him living on the reservation is entwined with being poor.
Poverty hits children hardest in the world. When I was younger, the Armenians had faced the hard facts of poverty after they break up with the Soviet Union, war with Azerbaijan, and a devastating earthquake. My family moved into our motherland Armenia while our nation was going through these huge dramatic changes. Furthermore the poor economy and inflation destroyed numerous hopes and futures. In the novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie, Arnold Spirit, describes his hardships involving poverty living on Spokane reservation. The people on the reservation are stuck in a prison of poverty. They are imprisoned there due to lack of resources and general contempt from the outside world, so they are left with little chance for success. Like Arnold, I also went through hardships regarding poverty and education.
This book, "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie, is about a boy called Arnold Spirit aka Junior. He is a Native American that lives in an Indian Reservation. He isn't really satisfied with his life, since he's pretty poor, but he gets along. He doesn't really accept himself, since he has multiple medical problems, and he has been beaten up since he was little. When he starts to gain more friends in this new (American) school, he starts to like and accept himself more than before. In this book, "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian" (by Sherman Alexie), the main theme is about Arnold trying to accept himself.
Do you think looking forward and trying to change a bad situation into a good one for having a better life is a wrong decision? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian is a novel written by Sherman Alexie. The novel is about Arnold Spirit; everyone calls him Junior. He is a teenage boy with a tough life who lives with his family in poverty on a Spokane Indian reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. He hates living in poverty and wants something better for himself. “I feel like I might grow up to be somebody important. An artist”(6) he claims. His living conditions are horrible; he studies in a school with a lack of resources. He considered the different aspects of moving to Reardan, he struggled about leaving
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie is a novel about Arnold Spirit (Junior), a boy from the Spokane Indian Reservation who decides to attend high school outside the reservation in order to have a better future. During that first year at Reardan High School, Arnold has to find his place at his all-white school, cope with his best friend Rowdy and most of his tribe disowning him, and endure the deaths of his grandmother, his father’s best friend, and his sister. Alexie touches upon issues of identity, otherness, alcoholism, death, and poverty in order to stay true to his characters and the cultures within the story. Through the identification of the role of the self, identity, and social behavior
Adolescents experience a multitude of physical, cognitive, emotional, and social, and mental changes during a short span of years in their developmental journey to adulthood, and this transition period is full of many developmental changes and milestones. Some typical changes and milestones in an adolescent’s life include puberty, learning to drive, dating, developing new social relationships and social roles, cognitive changes, becoming sexually active, obtaining employment, and graduating high school. In addition to all of these changes in this tumultuous time of life, adolescents are identifying, developing, and coming to terms with their own sense of self, and learning about their identity becomes a priority. Teens and young adults must also address certain challenges that may arise in their lives such as bullying, drug and alcohol use, violence, sexual abuse, eating disorders, depression or other mood/mental health issues, and issues concerning sexuality, and gender identity. Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is an engaging story that deals with many of the challenges that all adolescents face, and this novel also addresses challenges that are unique to those teens who may be grappling with issues that face minority cultures and communities as well.
Sherman Alexie book “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part – Time Indian” is a comical yet heartbreaking true story of an Indian teenage boy living on the reservation trying to figure out his own identity. Throughout the book the reader can see the identity struggles that the main character Arnold Spirit Jr (Junior) faces. Being on the reservation is both a home and a place Junior is ready to leave. Through Juniors illustrations and……
The main character is Carla. The story is told through her, and her thoughts. She is sixteen in the beginning of the story and turns seventeen. She lives with her mom and dad. Her life at home is a safe environment compared to the other characters. Her best friend is Mischa. She tests out the boundaries by taking drugs with Mischa. She is attracted to other females. When she is at Renaude’s house, she feels homesick, and when she gets home, she is glad that her mom