How Does Sherman Alexie Present Junior Present Through Language

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a book that depicts cultural differences; the issues of alcohol; and friendships in a harsh, yet humorous way. Junior, the main character of the book, stands out in many ways, both to the reader, and in the book itself. He is courageous, yet also emotional and smart.

They are also Sherman's way to express the strong frustrations and many issues he experienced growing up as an American Indian in the school system. In the eighth grade chapter, for example, he suddenly jumps from his rather funny remark to the anorexic school girl to give him her lunch because she "is just going to throw it up anyway" to the grim reality his family is facing at home in their limited choices of food and concludes the chapter with "There is more than one way to starve." Other remarks are quite glum such as the one at the end of the sixth grade chapter where his lesson learned is that in the white world it is better to "always throw the first punch." I do not feel Alexie is speaking literally but uses more of a hyperbole styled text to get his points across. One of his main points of the story I interpreted was that he just wanted to inform people of what he went through, along with also showing his family and friends on the reservation what he did to be successful to encourage them to do the

While Alexie states his voice by using metaphor, he emphasizes the meaning of reading repeatedly in his essay. He stresses how he strives to read variety of books, and he records that,” I read the books my father brought home from the pawnshops and secondhand. I read the books I borrowed from the library. I read the backs of cereal boxes… I read magazines. I read anything that had words and paragraphs” (18). Alexie lists out all the material he has read with the same sentence structure, yet he does not conclude all these things in one sentence. He exemplifies his passion to reading, for he tries to save his life. Due to his parallel repetition, Alexie impresses the audience by these

(Well, most of them.)”, also contains many different language styles and rhetorical devices. Imagery is very evident in this passage. By using very descriptive adjectives in his writing, like “handsome, blue-eyed”, “impossibly pale neck”, “splattered with Day-Glo Hollywood war paint”, and “greasy popcorn, flat soda pop, fossilized licorice rope”, Alexie paints a vivid image in the mind of the reader. Any writer can describe something, but he takes it one step higher with adjectives that appeal to the senses, especially sight. This imagery adds intensity and value to the piece that otherwise would not have been there. Much like in “Indian Education”, “I Hated Tonto (Still Do)” contains repetition. In the last section of the essay, Alexie discusses cinematic Indians and how he was so different from them, which really discouraged him as a child. He explains, “A cinematic Indian is supposed to climb mountains. I am afraid of heights. A cinematic Indian is supposed to wade into streams and sing songs. I don’t know how to swim. A cinematic Indian is supposed to be a warrior. I haven’t been in a fistfight since sixth grade and she beat the crap out of me.” The repetition of the phrase, “A cinematic Indian is supposed to”, in contrast to what Alexie was like emphasizes how he would often feel that his dreams were unattainable. Overall,

In Sherman Alexies novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, the protagonist, Junior, overcomes many obstacles such as stereotypes, poverty and hopelessness.

Autobiographical texts are not simple retellings of experiences, but the result of a complex process of shaping and refining ideas and events that take place in someone’s life. The texts The Damage Done and The Happiest Refugee by Warren Fellows and Anh Do respectively, follow two different stories of survival and chance. One, a tale of the dealings of drug trafficking, and the other a description of a brave and valiant escape from post-war Vietnam. Through use of structure and language devices, my views of these two men and their surroundings have been shaped and manipulated; for Fellows, the view that he is simply an innocent victim of chance, and for Do, that he is a family man, shaped by significant events in his early life. Language conventions

Row, in “ Without Reservation” emphasizes that Alexie is a storyteller and not a prose fiction writer. A story teller, he defines, has work that, “... contains, openly or covertly, something useful …” (Row 1). Row goes on by giving evidence to why Alexie is a storyteller, and not your usual Indian writer. As he explains, Alexie reinstates the fragmented and ruptured Indian life instead of the political topics associated with them. With this idea in mind, Row believes that Alexie instills this behavior in his writing to give way for his sharp moral endings. These genuine moral endings, installment of stereotypes and Indian beliefs with consequences

One who suffers from a lot of pain usually loses themselves in the process of trying to reclaim their life. In Richard Wagamese’s Indian horse, the proganist Saul Indian horse goes through a lot of agonies which gives him the motive to kill the Indian in himself, destroying his oneness. Though alcoholism, violent acts, and his new identity makes Saul feel like he belongs it just is not who he is as a person. These harrowing changes are inspired by the tremendous amount of abuse Saul endures throughout his childhood. The endless amount of physical and mental abuse Saul experiences forces him to become a different person which in turn makes him lose his true identity.

In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie tells a story about how a boy switches schools to try to better his life, and learns that violence isn’t how everyone deals with things. This is shown when Rowdy punches Arnold when he touches his shoulder, to help calm him down (210). While people at Wellpinit are kind and welcomed him (192). This shows that violence depended on how you were raised and how your community is, this is shown because of Arnold experience at Rearden and Wellpinit and how different they were.

Faulkner uses syntactical strategies throughout his speech to assist him in communicating his message to his audience. In the third paragraph he emphasizes a syntax device known as anaphora, when stating, “He must learn them again… He much teach himself… He writes not of love…He writes not of the heart…”.The anaphora helps Faulkner be effective in his argument by the repetition of words to help him get his view of things across to the audience. To also succor his effectiveness he uses polysyndeton, which is used to draw the audience’s attention therefore adding the effect of persistence and intensity to help keep his audiences attention, making his speech effective. An example of polysyndeton is when he declares “love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice” This quote helps signify that authors need to write from their soul and

Growing up with a mother addicted to heroin and a dad he didn't know, things for Jarrett Krosoczka seemed hopeless. This is until his grandparents adopted him when he was three. They cared for him, supported him and helped him through school. Since he was young Jarrett had a passion for art and writing. This passion exploded into what it was when a famous children's author came to his elementary school. Jarret knew this is what he wanted to do with his life. It was his dream. This dream almost came to an end when the art program at his school slowly came to an end. Yet Jarrett’s grandparents found a way for Jarrett to following his dream. Jarrett started at a private school and took art class at a local museum. The private school had teachers that connected with Jarret. He was even convinced by his English teacher to do things for the newspaper and for the next three years he drew little pictures and wrote comics. His teachers told him to forget everything he learned so he would have his own style.

So in the Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian Arnold, also known as Junior, likes drawing different comics unacknowledged by his friends and peers. He draws the comics because they’re based on how people act around him (6). Then he says, “So I draw because I want to talk to the world. And I want the world to pay attention to me.” In that quote he talks about what his comics mean to him and why he draws all the comics that he does. He also says, “After school, I’d ride the bus to the end of the line and wait for my folks, if they didn’t come I’d start walking” (87-88) There, he is talking about how to goes to a new school and how it’s really far from where he lives. He also draws a schedule of his week and how some days he would have

A lot of the time people waste time and energy making a super long speech about something, when it is easier to just draw a picture and that will get the same idea across. In ‘The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian’ the pictures are a very important part of the book for many reasons including that, the main character uses them as much as he uses words and the mean a lot to him, and that drawings help tell the story and gives the reader a deeper understanding of what’s going on. One of the pictures that I drew was based off of a picture of Junior at the beginning of his time at Reardan, one half of the picture was Junior as a poor Indian boy and the other half was a hopeful white boy. This drawing especially stood out to me because other than the physical difference of clothing and accessories, the white boy looked much happier and more hopeful. Also around the picture there were boxes with words describing each side such as for the white boy “a bright future”, and “hope” and for the Indian boy “a vanishing past” and “bone-crushing reality”. The picture that I drew was similar to that picture, it was a drawing of Junior before and after Reardan, but instead of being a self-portrait it was drawn from Rowdy’s perspective. In my drawing I tried to express the anger that Rowdy felt at the fact that his best friend had ditched him, but also the sadness that he was experiencing that he now had nobody to stay with when his father beat him up. And no one to share his secrets and dreams with, Junior was the only person who believed in Rowdy and now they both stayed away from each other. At the beginning of the book, it was mentioned that Rowdy deals with pain by getting angry and trying to hurt people. So in my drawing I tried to express how angry Rowdy was at Junior, and how much Rowdy hated Junior for ditching him and thinking he was better than him, though inside rowdy knew that one day Junior would leave and

When it comes to books, I find it very difficult to find a book that will keep me reading and enjoyable. I mostly read manga every week if you consider manga a real book. The novel " The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian", by Sherman Alexie will be about an Indian trying to stay rooted with his culture and trying to adapt to the new world with different people. From reading the title, it gives the people a hint of what it going to be about, so that is the reason why I believe it will be about

The illustrations are what heavily portray the cultural details from two very different cultures. Showing how very different these two boys in different countries live their lives shows that these cultural details are just that…details, but what truly matters no matter where you are is relationships and family. It was interesting