Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time Indian Theme Analysis

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.

Mentors are people who provide support, strength, and inspiration. Many people have a mentor in their life that they aspire to be like, and seek out for guidance. Mentors play a big role in many lives, including Junior's from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Some of the biggest mentors for Junior are his parents, his Wellpinit teacher Mr. P and his Rearden basketball coach. If it weren't for these mentors inspiration and support, Junior wouldn't have taken some of the risks he does.

Junior’s life was terrible at Wellpinit High school in Wellpinit, Washington. The education was inadequate, the resources were outdated, and the students matched the hopelessness of the place. If everyone had the privilege of being born into a positive place like the community at Reardan High School, then their lives would be very different. After his Geometry teacher, Junior decides to attend Reardan High School to receive a better education and escape temporarily from his hopeless life at the Reservation.a In public health, the concept of where an individual lives, works, learns, and plays is important because it determines the health and wellness for someone like Junior. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie,

Junior first thought of finding hope is when Mr. P, his math teacher at the reservation told him that he needs to go and find hope. Mr.P said “You’re going to find more and more hope the farther and farther, you walk away from this sad, sad, sad reservation” (43). What Mr. P is saying tis hat Junior has to leave the reservation to find hope. When Junior told his best friend Rowdy that he is transferring to a different school, Rowdy is very upset. Rowdy yelled “Don’t touch me, you retard fag! My heart broke into fourteen pieces, one for each year that Rowdy and I had been best friend”(52). This is because Rowdy is very sad and mad at the same time and he does not know what to do with his emotions. What he said hurt Junior a lot. Junior believes that they have been best friends for fourteen years! Rowdy calling him name and beating him have not happened before because they are best friend, and it is Rowdy’s job to defend Junior from other kids bullying him. Junior transferring to a new school hurt both Rowdy and Junior and their friendship of fourteen years, but Junior is determine to go to find hope.

Finally, Alexie makes it clear in the novel how difficult it is for Native Americans to obtain money due to the mismanagement of it. The author shows this lack of money through the perception of the students of Rearden High School versus the reality Junior is faced with. The harsh reality of the lack of money is shown in this quote:

In the world many people have, don’t have, or think they have hope. Hope is many different things. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, many people have hope and many people think they don’t have hope. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is about a boy named Junior and how he finds his way in the world and how he builds his own path to find hope. He ends up going to a school outside the Reservation where he tries to find a balance between his two identities. Many people in this book, like Junior, Mary and Grandma have many different beliefs about hope and they are all very interesting when you look at them below the surface. The different perceptions people have of

"Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations"- Anonymous. In the novel of Absolute True Diary of a Part time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Arnold goes on a different road than most throughout the book. There are difficult problems or situations which he goes through using the advice from significant conversations he has had earlier. Different people, such as his geometry teacher; Mr. P or his basketball coach give him different sets of advice. Even his friend, Gordy does to and these are moments in which helps Arnold progress to who he is as a character.

Transferring to Reardon was a big transition for Junior. He was in school with a lot of other Indians, to just being the only indian in an all white school. Transferring impacted his life in many different ways. Because of how poor the reservation was Junior knew it was time to be different and take his life down another path. In the book, The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie, when he transferred a lot of deaths happened and the amount of friends he had increased because he became more brave and also his academics were better.

A maxim is a general truth or rule of conduct. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is filled with Maxims. From classics maxims about perception to more serious maxims about leaving your birthplace for opportunity and hope. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Junior experiences much change in his life. He decides to transfer to a predominantly white farm school from the rez school. But, the rez was not happy with him transferring. In the process, he loses his best friend and family members. Junior learns many things about himself and how to lead himself through life. Throughout this essay, a few maxims will be highlighted that exemplify the lessons that Junior learns and the relation of his experiences to my own life. Throughout The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Junior teaches us and himself about Maxims and their life long value.

Theme Analysis Essay: English 11 “The Absolute true diary of a part-time indian” Final. Friendship isn’t only what is seen on the outside, what can be seen by other people and portrayed to show a connection. Friendship is a massive portrayal on what happens on the inside. The use of the imagery shown in Friendship in “The Absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian” defines the decisions and actions, and how they have an implementation, of Junior’s life. The largest example of what Junior’s friendship is in The novel is the stories he shares with his friend, Rowdy.

I enjoyed reading Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Reading about Junior’s life brought back memories of how I got into Allied in the first place. Just like Junior: I knew I had to leave my home town’s school system to attain a better life in the future. Unlike, Junior, who had Mr. P to introduce him to the world outside of the reservation, I had to discover a high school that was not my home high school, Matawan Aberdeen Regional High School. When I found out about the Academy of Allied Health and Science, I was very excited that there was a school where teenagers could explore the medical field without the fees of college. Unfortunately for Junior and I, we had to lose a close friend in the process of leaving

1.) The significance of the two settings, Wellpinit and Reardan, is that they both impacted Junior’s life in positive and negative ways. The town of Wellpinit on the Spokane Indian Reservation was where Junior grew up with his family and his one, loyal friend, Rowdy. This town played such a significant role in Junior’s life because it taught him some of the most essential lessons that he would use throughout his life. One of which, is the importance of family. Junior knew he didn’t have much friends and that family was all that he could count on to be there for him. Furthermore, he learned that not only did he have to be considerate

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a fictional novel written by Sherman Alexie. After discovering that the reservation high school has been distributing the same geometry books for almost thirty years, Arnold chucks his geometry textbook at the math teacher, Mr. P. Arnold, the protagonist, makes a decision to transfer schools. Arnold leaves the Rez not solely based on his disdain for crusty geometry books, but to escape poverty and find hope. Reardan is an all-white high school full of success: the complete opposite of the Rez. The message relayed throughout the book is multiple worlds exist inside a single world.

“The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie, is one of his many works based on his life at the Spokane Indian Reservation and life there is not as pleasant as the white man would lead you to believe. The ground is littered with the remains of drug abuse and the smell of alcohol fill the atmosphere. The depressing poverty darkens the sky, nearly eradicating all hope within the reservation. And in any society, when you’re not like everyone else you are picked on no matter what. Alexie wished to escape, to no longer exist as just some Native American, but to find his own identity, to become somebody.

When Junior transfers to Reardan a white school off the reservation you can see the conflicting aspects of identity and belonging. This part in the book is where Junior starts to describe himself as a part time Indian. “I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other place” (Alexie, p.118). Going back and forth between Reardan and Wellpinit,