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

In Sherman Alexie’s novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” the narrator portrays both internal and external conflicts throughout his journey to success. Arnold Junior Spirit is a fourteen-year-old boy who believes that in order to pursue his dream he will have to choose between staying in his Spokane Indian reservation or moving out to an all-white school in the neighboring farm town. But things aren’t as easy as they seem when Junior tries moving schools because he know has to be part of two communities. Many conflicts form within the Spokane Indian reservation and the Spokane Indian reservation as well comes into conflict with the white community.

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.

In a Bill Moyer’s interview “Sherman Alexie on Living Outside Borders”, Moyer’s interviews Native American author and poet Sherman Alexie. In the Moyer’s and Company interview, Alexie shares his story about the struggles that he endured during his time on a Native American reservation located at Wellpinit, Washington. During the interview, Alexie goes in-depth about his conflicts that plagued the reservation. In an award-winning book by Sherman Alexie called “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, Alexie writes semi-autobiography that reveals his harsh life on the reservation through a fictional character named Arnold Spirit Junior. In Alexie’s semi-autobiography, Alexie shares his struggles of a poor and alcoholic family, the

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.

One should get to know a person before judging them because impressions are not always accurate. In the novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Junior experiences racism on the Spokane Indian reservation and at Reardan, where Junior attends school. Racial discrimination makes the Indians on the reservation lose their sense of self-worth and they feel as if they deserve to be treated this way. At Reardan, Junior is in an atmosphere where his white classmates and teachers make racist jokes and nicknames targeting him. In the novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie explains how prejudice and discriminatory behaviour endorses negative relationships between people. This can be observed through Junior’s

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

Before reading this book, I honestly knew little about Native American. I knew that many lived on reservations, but I knew nothing about those reservations. By being brutally honest, Sherman Alexie provided incite to how the everyday life of a teenage Native American is like. This book opened my eyes to the problems that Native American’s face, that I was in the dark about before.

Over the course of your life, you come to struggle with the philosophical idea of personal identity; the thing that makes you, you. Oneself may shape their identity around aspects of their life that they have no control over like race and physical traits, as well as decisions that are made throughout their lives like affiliations and religion. Your personal identity can be seen through your passions and interactions with others. An individual’s search for their identity is something that may occur in everyone’s’ life. In the novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie highlights the theme of how the search for identity is always prevalent, through the conflicted characters of Junior and Mary throughout the novel.

He has done it through many different characters and genres of novels, but The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is probably his best work yet. Speaking as the character of a teen-ager forces Alexie to make everything action and emotion packed so that reading becomes more like listening to your funny best friend talking about his day while waiting for a ride home after school. That teen-aged boy, Arnold Spirit Jr. is arguably the geekiest Indian on the Spokane Reservation. He wears big, lopsided glasses, when he doesn’t stutter, he has a lisp, and when he goes outside he gets teased and picked on by the other kids on the reserve. Junior spends a lot of time in his room drawing cartoons.(Off the Rez) To say that life is hard on the Spokane Reservation doesn’t begin to touch it. “My parents came from poor people who came from poor people who came from poor people.” Junior explains.(Alexie 11) Heavily based on Alexie's own life experiences, this novel depicts struggles, corruption and the long-lasting effects of historical abuse toward Native Americans. Although Junior is a young adult, he must face the reality of living in absolute poverty, deal with the discrimination of the other people outside of the reservation, deal with a corrupt family that is often killed by alcoholism, break cultural barriers at an all-White high school, and maintain the

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie is a novel about Arnold Spirit (Junior), a boy from the Spokane Indian Reservation who decides to attend high school outside the reservation in order to have a better future. During that first year at Reardan High School, Arnold has to find his place at his all-white school, cope with his best friend Rowdy and most of his tribe disowning him, and endure the deaths of his grandmother, his father’s best friend, and his sister. Alexie touches upon issues of identity, otherness, alcoholism, death, and poverty in order to stay true to his characters and the cultures within the story. Through the identification of the role of the self, identity, and social behavior

My topic for this ISP will be about how Sherman Alexie used symbolism and environment to create and affect Arnold’s identity in the novel.

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.

There are many themes in Sherman Alexie’s book called “The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time Indian”. The three main themes in Sherman Alexie’s book is alcoholism, poverty, and racism and discrimination. Alcoholism in this book is important because many of the characters either died due to alcohol or were addicted to alcohol. Poverty is also important because the main character, Junior, lived on a poor reservation where most people did not have a lot of clothes, food, and other resources. Racism and discrimination is the last important theme in this story because many of the kids made fun of Junior when he transferred schools to the white kids school.

Sherman Alexie, as Arnold Spirit jr in his novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian who but chose to go to a white school, has experienced something different but similar. In his illustration of half and half, he found himself awkward in the situation that he was neither a white or an Indian, a kind of nothing. He was the only Indian in the white school and was the traitor who left his own identity to try to be white when he got back home where all were Indians. He was having an identity at a place but where the identity did not belong to. It was just like me: I was too artistic to be a good student and too focused on study to be a real artist. Just like him, I was only a part-time figure with two different identities that are

Sherman Alexie book “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part – Time Indian” is a comical yet heartbreaking true story of an Indian teenage boy living on the reservation trying to figure out his own identity. Throughout the book the reader can see the identity struggles that the main character Arnold Spirit Jr (Junior) faces. Being on the reservation is both a home and a place Junior is ready to leave. Through Juniors illustrations and……