Arnold Spirit Analysis

A 1. Junior was born with too much cerebral spinal fluid in his skull. He had 42 teeth’ instead of 32.The other kids on the reserve called him a retard and beat him up. That’s why Junior thought himself as a member of “The – Black – Eye - Of – The – Month – Club.

In Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Junior is a young American Indian that is shy and has low self-esteem, and has a few issues physically and his surroundings. He has a best friend named Rowdy. Rowdy is rude and has no emotion to any situation. What many people at the reservation don’t know is that Rowdy and Junior have real problems at home with their parents. The differences between Rowdy and Junior are the family and the personalities.

There are many ideas about what or who the Devil is, even among believers. The number of differing sources and translations have led to plenty of inconsistencies, rumors, and assumptions surrounding the Prince of Darkness. Throughout the short story “Where Are You going, Where Have You Been?”, Arnold Friend is seen as a symbolic Satan. Joyce Carol Oates uses dialogue, characterization, and plot to show the readers how Arnold embodies features of a symbolic Satan.

In Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Joyce Carol Oates uses characterization to foreshadow that Arnold is a kidnapper and that Connie gets Kidnapped. Arnold Friend is portrayed as a manipulator, which foreshadows that he will eventually do something like, kidnap Connie. Connie is portrayed as vain, which foreshadows that she will be a victim similar to getting kidnapped. Connie decided to go out with her friends. She spots a demonic looking man, across the street, who's looking at her. Connie, who's at home alone, sees a car pulls up in her driveway and in the gold, slogan covered, Jalopy are two male strangers. When she goes out to see who they are, what they want, she see’s that it’s the strange man that was staring at her when she was out with her friends. When you normally see strangers/strange people outside your home, you do nothing and stay inside. When she went outside you can tell that something is wrong. She will get kidnapped.

I became extremely uncomfortable with Arnold Friend the moment he pulled into Connie’s driveway and said, “I ain’t late, am I?” (592). Friend was a complete stranger to Connie. She did not know him, nor did she know what he wanted. She acted calm and unbothered, not showing one ounce of interest in him. Furthermore, Arnold

Throughout the story Arnold's traits change, which makes him seem as though he is not who he says he is. When Arnold first arrives at Connie’s home, he acts as though they had met before. However, Connie repeatedly says, “Look, I don’t even know who you are” (654). Although Connie keeps saying this, Arnold continues to act like nothing's wrong. Later in the story he seems to break his previous character, and Connie notices. “He spoke in a simple lilting voice, exactly as if he were reciting the words to a song” (656). His mannerisms change here because he realizes Connie has figured out that something is off about him. He changes his mannerisms from being an eighteen year old friend to being an aggressive man. “She looks out to see Arnold Friend pause and then take a step toward the porch lurching. He almost fell. But, like a clever drunken man, he managed to catch his balance” (659). His illusion of being an eighteen year old drops here. Oates is able to use Arnold’s mannerisms as a symbol to contribute to the theme because he first acts one way, only to act another the next. First impressions are not always correct and they may not be as they

Another thing is that Junior always believed in himself .He always had things stopping him, for example, he was bullied in school often ,his dad was alcoholic, and his mom

This is seen through the eyes of the main character Arnold Spirit Junior. He is a Native American boy who was born "with water on the brain" and therefore is known to seizures. As a result of this, he has to be very careful in how he lives his life. Despite this fact, he is able to live a normal life on a Native American reservation in Wellpinit in Spokane, Washington. He decides to go to school in Reardon because he wants to make something of himself. He suffers great hardship and tragedy during his freshman year in high school at Reardon. His father is an alcoholic and cannot always be relied on for support. He lives with his family and they have barely enough to live on from day to day. Both his older sister Mary and his grandmother pass away not long after each other. The two women were extremely close to him and he has trouble accepting their deaths. They were his confidants and people that allowed Arnold to be himself when he was around them, giving him advice, and loving him for who he was. This feeling of tragedy and heartbreak shows the novel's ability to make the reader feel more connected to the difficulty of Arnold and his suffering. It makes us feel like we are there with

However, with the words of Mr. P in Juniors head he overcame this disinclination and went through with going to Reardan. Junior became more determined than ever to succeed,Even with an easy way out and even as his dad said, “‘You[Junior] don’t have to do this,’ he[Juniors Father] said. ‘You can always go back to the rez school.’ ‘No,’ I[Junior] said. ‘I have to do this’”(Alexie 54). Even after the talk with his father Junior knew that from that point on there was no turning back, he now had to go through with it. In finding his new identity he knew that there was no way he could return to the school on the rez.However,Attending Reardan, Junior was introduced to a whole new kind of torment and without a friend there like Penelope he may never have found his true identity.

Johann Christoph Arnold is a pastor and a writer who has meet many people with stories that all connect to forgiveness and Johann helps these people learn how to find that forgiveness within. Jane, a hard- working, neat, and honest person who was as unfeeling as a rock because of the many grudges she held on to was unable to love. She later on was able to overcome all of the anger and rediscover the joy of life. Brenda was not so easy, Brenda was raped by her uncle for many many years and used alcohol to silence the pain and to escape from him. Although she thought bottle after bottle of vodka a day will help her, she was still a victim of his. When Johann met Brenda she had been offered intensive psychiatric counseling Johann says “ Brenda

Mallory’s wife died. He used to be a bright kind loving man. But ever since the incident he became darker and more rigorous with teaching. He used the slapping ruler almost three times as much and yelled a lot more. One time Jermaine didn’t finish his Lunch and got spanked in the room we called punishment we were so scared not to get spanked that we obeyed everything and didn’t question what he said. It was like a monarchy obey the orders or go to the chopping block well in this case the spanking block. Little did I know the next day would change my life,

The theme of identity is a major part of the novel. Junior is constantly trying to figure out who he is. Junior knows he has a lot of problems with him because of his brain is a little damaged. He knows that when he has seizures. His brains get damaged more than what it is. ‘First of all, I had seizures. At least two a week. So I was damaging my brain on a regular basis. But the thing is, I was having those seizures because I already had brain damage, so I was reopening wounds each time I seized. Yep, whenever I had a seizure, I was damaging my damage (pg 5).” Junior also knows he a little slow from his brain being so damage because of his speech is a little bad and he can’t say certain words correctly. A way a person talks can tell you a lot

Darren Raylaw is a very nice boy, he has many friends and you could call him a “popular” kid. He is tall and skinny and he also has curly, dirty blonde hair. He was one of those guys that all the girls had a little crush on. Darren is very athletic and very very smart. His friends always look to him for help on homework, if they need tutoring, or if they just didn’t understand something. Darren might have had good friends and a great school life, but his home life was another story.

There was once a girl named, Danny, she was just a regular student in her junior year of highschool. She was so excited to finish the school year out and just get to graduation, she never liked school all that much, but she did amazing in every class that got thrown at her. But even though she was lucky to never get messed with or bullied, her luck finally ran out. Danny had always been an extremely nice and even social kid, no one found it weird, until the new guy, Blake was placed in some of her classes and that made her life harder than it had to be for an entire week, let’s get into why it was.

Ridgewood High School is not exactly the perfect school. The school is full of delinquents, guns, and drugs. Lunch period was the prime time for trouble. The sound of the glass shattering from the window awoke the whole school. The people started to gather around the three boys creating the commotion. One of boys Douglas, a big, mean bully was heaving rocks at two boys Glen and Taylor. Glen is a smart fella who wants absolutely zero trouble. His only desire is getting into MIT. Taylor is the starting wide receiver for the football team and tries to protect Glen. During Lunch, Douglas pushes Glen to the ground and Taylor steps in front of Douglas in attempt to stop him. In the end, there were a couple bloody noses and several broken windows. On the other end of the school, Davis is waiting to sell Kevin marijuana. Davis really needs the money and Kevin has nothing going for him. He cuts class, abuses drugs and flat out does not care. After their exchange, behind them stands the school narcotics officer.