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

What is identity? Is it something you are born with? Is it something you become? Can it change? In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie, we watch Junior Spirit, the main character, take a journey in order to discover who he is. Junior is a boy living on the Spokane Reservation in Washington, who decides to attend a white high school, Reardan, in order to hold onto his dreams and create opportunities for himself. But, as the book progresses, Junior struggles between his two identities: an Indian on the reservation and a white student at Reardan. It takes many events, which seem to force Junior to choose a side, and several tragic deaths of Junior’s family, which drive him into grief and hopelessness, in order

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.

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.

This rhetorical analysis will bring you through the "How to Fight Monsters" chapter of Sherman Alexie 's story : An Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian. This book is a semi-autobiography that won the 2007 U.S. National Book Award For Young People 's Literature. This story is about an Indian boy from a poor reservation with an alcoholic father, who wishes for a better life. In order to achieve this better life, Junior decides to move to another school in order to have " hope" for his future. During this transition into his new school Junior is marked as a traiter and looses the one close friend he had on the reservation. At the opening scene of the story Junior is asking his parents "who has the most hope?" In his desperate

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, written by Sherman Alexie, is a novel about a 14 year old Indian boy, which not too surprisingly is based on his own life. Throughout the book the main character Junior, who is later referred to as Arnold, goes through a series of events that change not only the way others look at him , but how he views himself as well. This book will teach you that it’s never too late to change your life, all you have to have is hope.

“And I kept trying to find the little pieces of joy in my life. That’s the only way I managed to make it through all of that death and change. I made a list of the people who had given me the most joy in my life.’” (Alexie 176).

Contrary to the belief,the American dream is not for everyone. Consider if an African American, a Hispanic, a Caucasian, an Asian, and a Native American was born. Who do you think as the best chance of achieving the American dream in their life? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie and Because My Father Always Said He Was The Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play The Star Spangled Banner At Woodstock by Sherman Alexie explore the central idea of how race affects the American Experience. The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian is a novel about a Native American named Junior living on the Spokane indian reservation who decides to go to a predominantly white school in order to get a better education.

The best gift you can give anyone is hope, because without it, you don’t have a future to look forward to. The book “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie is about a teenage boy go looking for hope in a new environment. He left everything he know to pursue the unknown because he is looking for hope. The biggest step Junior have to take is transferring to Reardan, because this is where he can find hope. In the process Junior lost his best friend;he gains hope, and he is making new friends.

Many of us think that racism is a problem from the past, a problem during the era of Abraham Lincoln. Well if you think that, you are wrong because racism is still a big problem today and it still affects many people. Racism is something that has been disputed since the Civil war, and even many years later into the Civil Rights Movement. Martin Luther king did so much trying to change this ideation of the United States, but we can see that this problem still exists. In the book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Arnold Spirit has been a victim of racism in his school. Arnold wants to get a better education and in order to do that, he would have to go to a white school where he would face discrimination.

In the United State bullying has become one of the major problem; bullying can affect everyone those who are being bullied, and those who witness bullying. “ The Black - Eye - of - the Month Club; and Mob Action: Elementary School to Higher Education talk a little about this topic.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian of Sherman Alexie is a series of life events of a fourteenth-year old Indian boy Junior who lives in Spokane Reservation. He decides to leave the reservation to attend high school in Reardan, which is considered as a controversial action of him. This leads to that everyone in the rez including his best friend Rowdy looks at him as a betrayal of his tribe. Nevertheless, Arnold has made such a good decision on leaving the rez since there were so many issues which he has to face with. More than that, his decision brings impacts not only for himself, but also for his own family and the tribe.

In Sherman Alexie’s novel The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman uses “Community and ‘homing in”; “Land and Nature”; and “History” to make the historical adolescent novel a part of American Indian literature. “Community and ‘homing in” is used when Junior leaves the reservation for a better future, and in return the reservation resents Junior for leaving the reservation and becoming “White-washed”. Alexie uses “land and Nature” to create liminal spaces when the protagonist of the story, Junior, feels conflict between the dominant race and that of the inferior. Afterwards, “history” is used by Sherman by showing generational references in order to provide the reader a point of view through the eyes of a young Native American boy from a reservation.

Arnold spirit, better known as Junior, in the book “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian ” by sherman alexie, must confront, racism, stereotype, and rejection from his own tribe when he moves to a small town school named Rederan. But with the help of roger and others he takes back his friendships, gets acquainted, and is liked in his new challenging school. The book “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian ” by sherman alexie starts on a far of reservation of the Spokane indians, where they have forgotten that difference is good, and are losing all hope of a better life. But, that is untill, a boy, with some chronic health conditions, moves of the reservation school, and goes to a small town, racist, white, school. Most characters in the book “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian ” are either friends or foes. But some characters are both friend and foe.

There are many books around the world that are and have been for hundreds of years. The earliest book burning known was about two-thousand years ago in what is now China, by the Qin dynasty. Books have been banned for numerous reasons such as racial issues, the potential for damaging lifestyles, sexual situations, violence, and judgements of inappropriate behavior based on the age of the reader. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is one of those books, and in the opinions of many the novel actually consists of nearly all of these reasons why most books are banned. The book is actually one, if not the most, challenged book in the United States. Sherman Alexie 's 2007 novel The Absolutely True Diary of the Part-Time Indian is considered a controversial novel because of it 's demeaning references to alcoholism, poverty, bullying, violence, and sexual innuendos, as well as for the tragic deaths of characters and the use of profanity or slurs related to homosexuality and mental disabilities throughout the novel. Despite these reviews and assessments, students should be allowed to read it because of the life lessons it teaches.

Literature about Native Americans before the mid-1970s is known to be filled with negative stereotypes (Norton, 2013, p. 70). Laura Herbst (1977) says that the most common stereotypes portray Native Americans as savage, depraved, and cruel, as well as noble, proud, silent, and close to nature, inferior, childlike, and helpless (as cited in Norton, 2013, p. 70). It is important that the literature about Native American people, and generally any culture, portrays that culture accurately instead of relying on stereotypes. Therefore, organizations like the American Indian Youth Literature Award were created to honor those writers that do an excellent job of writing about Native American culture. The American Indian Library Association says: