Absolutely True Diary Of Part Time Indian Analysis

Junior the protagonist of True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie is currently struggling with an abundance of issues ranging all the way from a poverty driven home to medical issues he was born into. It seems to me, that all of juniors problems he was born into and unable to change for example he was born into poverty and he was born indian, setting him up for the racism he would soon enough face and he was born with too much cerebral fluid in his brain. That's not to say all of his problems came along with birth and he was just born to be plagued with, but majority of them stemmed from birth.

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.

The American Indian occupies a unique place in the White American imaginary. Indians, one is told, are cordial, wise, poor in the “humble poverty” sort of way, brown, there assist whites with either mystic knowledge or humorous ignorance. Figures such as Squanto, Tonto and Disney’s Pocahontas along with a large smattering of Westerns and cartoonish depictions have created this image of the Native American – an image which rarely translates into the present day. In contrast to this, Sherman Alexie’s novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a Native American coming-of-age story centered around the first-person point of view of the Native protagonist Arnold “Junior” Spirit, Jr. and his dual life on the Spokane Indian Reservation and his time off the reservation at an all-white public school in the town of Reardan, Washington. The novel revolves around themes like race, identity formation and mortality and details life on Indian reservations as it attempts to give a realistic account of contemporary Native American life, each which shape the novel in unique ways.

About 90 percent of the deaths have been because of alcohol”(200). This is another example of how Junior’s environment has a huge impact on his identity, as he is expected by the rest of society to simply live out his hopeless life on the reservation, which according to Arnold, is meant to be a prison where Indians are supposed to die and disappear. In conclusion, Junior is born into a tribe where hope is flickering out of existence and his perspective on his future life is dark. However, despite all the odds against him, he realizes that he is meant to venture out of his comfort zone and achieve his dreams, carrying with him the burden of his

Junior starts going to a high school off the reservation after he was handed a 30-year-old textbook with his mother’s name on it. This set him off because it would be hard for him to continue with his career goals if he was learning material that was at least 30 years out of date. This then prompts him to start going to a white high school off the reservation. He was the only Native American there, so he was then faced with even more challenges, like the school being 22 miles away and his family frequently ran out of money, so they couldn’t afford gas so Junior ended up walking to school, but he ultimately prospered at his new

Rowdy is a main character in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Rowdy is best friends with another main character, Junior. Rowdy has Junior and only Junior. Rowdy lives on a reservation. He is the toughest kid on the reservation.

Colin Powell once said, “A dream doesn’t become a reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” Sherman Alexie, author or The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, a story about an Indian teenager who does the unthinkable of switching from the school on his reservation to the white school a while away to better his education and future, would agree with this quote, because in my opinion it captures the essence of the hardships and continued determination the main character, Arnold, faces. In this book, Alexie portrays the idea that to better your life and future, you need to take leaps, regardless of obstacles.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a novel by Sherman Alexie that tells the story of a boy named Arnold ‘Junior’ Spirit. The book focuses on a year of Arnold’s life. In that one year, he leaves his tribal school to attend a white school that will give him a better chance to attend college and do things with his life. He feels guilty for leaving the reservation but is happy to be able to attend the white school.

The poem, “The Theft Outright” by Heid E. Erdrich, a Native American woman refutes claims made by another author, Robert Frost, that America was empty before the colonists. She counters his beliefs by citing the colorful, full lives of natives in the past and now. Frost’s claims demonstrate blatant racism by erasing the entire native culture and race from history. The book “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie tells the story of Arnold Spirit Jr, a Native American boy who switches from his poverty stricken reservation school to a school in a small town off the reservation called Reardan for a better education. Junior frequently faces challenges of racism, he is seen as less than his white peers at his new school, and is

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie is a new power full look at racist assumptions and friendship. In True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Arnold Spirit (Junior) is faced by the chance of leaving the reservation, but at the cost of not having any allies in the rez. And outside the reservation, people do judge a book by it’s cover, and Junior is the newest book on the shelf. And with his best friend Rowdy gone, no one is really there to support him. Even though Junior makes some friends in Rearden, no one really is close to Junior the way Rowdy was.

In the story, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Junior was very adamant about being Rowdy’s friend, even after Rowdy was being horrible and unsupportive. This is an abusive relationship, but really I think it could just be their normal. To begin with the way Rowdy treats Junior is very aggressive, and exaggerated compared to how Junior treats Rowdy and his friends at Reardan High School. One exception to Junior not being aggressive is when Junior hit Roger, but that was because he felt that’s what had to be done.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian is told through the eyes of Arnold (Junior) Spirit, a fourteen-year-old boy who lives on the Spokane Indian Reservation. On the reservation, he is considered an outcast due to his having cerebral brain fluid, which causes medical issues and physical abnormalities. Junior becomes dissatisfied with the inadequate education he is receiving on the reservation and decides to leave Wellpinit High School for Rearden High School. Rearden is twenty-two miles away and is essentially an all-white school. Consequently, he angers his peers on the reservation; in their minds, he turned his back on his people. His physical differences became secondary to his “white” outsider status. Meanwhile, while attending

In the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007) Sherman Alexie tells about the hopeful Arnold “Junior” Spirit, a Native American teenager in his first year of high school. This is a novel about hope, and how hard it can be when hope leaves,and how we can use it to persevere in the face of adversity.

For many people, family is one of the most important aspect of their life. In the book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Junior's family is a critical element part of his life.

Throughout the “Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” book by Sherman Alexie, there were struggles of what it means to be an Indian. It gives us a comparison and contrast of Junior being white or Indian. What it means to be Indian is that throughout the book, was when Junior transferred to Reardan, he started seeing himself as having two different selves: his past (like how he described in a drawing of himself) as Junior from the outcast from the reservation and his future as Arnold from the white high school at Reardan. At the end of the book, Junior finally found who he is and decided that he is still part of the Indian rez, that he is just in more than one tribe. In the beginning, when Junior decided to leave his reservation, many