Indian Maturation And Perseverance

While attending school John did not only get good grades, he played basketball. The people in the African American culture in the 1960’s believed that the only way for a black person to get into college was to play sports for “the white man.” With many African Americans having this mind set, it pushed John to excel on

The Absolute Diary of a Part-Time Indian significant theme is disability, poverty, family support, bullying, racism. Junior enter this world with water on his brain, which in turn cause him to have physical abnormality such as seizures, stutter, and a lisp. However, Junior has an excellent family support system in activities he participates in and other particular things that went on in his life. Due to his physical impairments, he experience a unceasing amount of bullying, whether it is an adult or kids at school on the reservation. Poverty is an enormous issue for family and for the people on the reservation. Consequently, his attendance at Reardan highlight his social class too. Junior encounter with racism at Reardan with some students

Primary education, Supplemental tutoring, summer camps, secondary education, family activities, higher education, first full-time job, subsequent employment, present employment with the age of the person, present residence, second residences"(pp.336-340). He lets you look into the life of different people, some from upper-class families and some from lower class families. The reader can see for themselves that the way they are brought up, whether it is from and upper-class family or lower-class family, it affects them. It

The second obstacle that Junior overcame was poverty. Being an Indian and living on the reservation he grew up with little to no money, and any money they did have his dad drank away. One common thing that Junior heard when he asked his dad for a ride to school in Reardan was, “’Don’t have enough gas,’ (Alexie70).” Junior never let the fact that his parents didn’t have any money stop him from going to school. He would either walk or hitchhike his way there even if he would be late. Junior was very determined to get to school to create that future he was dreaming of. He didn’t want the kids at Reardan to think of him as any different as they were. One way he did this was by pretending he had money, “My parents gave me just enough money so that I could pretend to have more money than I did, (Alexie119).” He knew he was poor, but he didn’t want his friends to know he was too. Junior wanted to be like everyone else and just fit in. He didn’t want the kids to think just because he was poor he couldn’t hang out with them. Eventually his friends discover that he has little money. They didn’t even think about not hanging out with him. They actually offer to help him and give him rides. If anything the fact that they knew more about him made him more popular with them. Junior would walk to school when there was no gas, he would hang out and go places with friends even when they knew he was poor. When Junior lets loose, he becomes a better person an overcomes his poverty with

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.

saids Junior on page 56, after attending Reardan for a couple days. Here Junior fears that both his socioeconomic class, and identity make him unsuitable for hope. Junior also says, “ I don’t know if hope is white. But I do know that hope for me is like some mythical creature,” proving that even though he has left the reservation, he still doubts that the sacrifice he made to come to Reardan will pay off. After a rough first months of school, basketball season kicks off an ongoing positive impact Juniors school year and beliefs. At basketball tryouts, Junior and the Coach have a conversation that goes,

The article Higher Education by Gary Smith is about a basketball coach who changed the lives of a whole community. Perry Reese Jr. was a black basketball coach in Berlin, Ohio which used to be one of the most Amish settlements in America. Many in the town wrote him off because of their racist views. What they didn’t know was that one day he was going to be the man that created magic in that small community. He was not only a coach but someone who genuinely cared for all of these people, breaking the traditional views of segregation and life all together.

Acknowledged in both novels, Junior and Jin’s spontaneous actions leave them both friendless and bruised. In Junior’s case, this meant ditching the reservation’s schooling system and finding one that surpasses the education he was taught. In the spur of the moment, Junior decides to do just that and attend an all-white school in the neighboring town. Getting the courage to tell his best friend, Junior braces himself for Rowdy’s reaction. Denial embedded his friend’s senses; remoteness then trickled its way through his head

Many African American families are suffering from the violence and substance abuse in their towns today, as reflected in the film “Boys of Baraka”. This film focuses on four young African American boys and their families from an inner city in Baltimore; Richard and brother Romash, Devon, and Montrey. As a result of the lack of discipline and an increased violence rate, these African American boys are suffering education-wise. Luckily, the Baraka School in Africa was designed for these children and gave them hope of bettering their lives as they enter high school.

Not only is Junior unpopular and alienated, but the victim of taunts and bullying as well. Furthermore, he’s considered a traitor after he transfers to Reardon. At Reardon, he’s called names and endures racial jokes until he finally finds acceptance through basketball and surprisingly finds friends with similar interests. Ultimately, Junior comes to the “huge realization” that not only does he belong to the Spokane Indian tribe, but to no less than 13 additional groups (Basketball players, cartoonists, bookworms, and sons to name a few). It is the first time he knows that he will be “OK”, sending a positive message to readers that identify with his struggles. By reading about characters similar to themselves, young adults can see that their challenges are not unique and are shared by other adolescents (Bucher & Hinton, 2009)

Junior has a choice of attending school at Wellpinit on the rez or earning a better education at Rearden. Junior knows that that he needs to get off of the rez and go to school at Rearden, the “rich, white farm town that sits in the wheat fields exactly twenty-two miles away from the rez” (45). At Rearden the education system is much better than at Wellpinit, and because Junior wants a better education he goes to Rearden. Even though Rearden has a better education system, if Junior wants to go to school there he will have to make some sacrifices. Rowdy is Junior’s best friend and he hates everything about Rearden so when Junior asks Rowdy if he wants to accompany him at Rearden he says, “I don’t even drive though that town… What makes you

A new level of expectations and accomplishments came about Junior when he moved to Reardan. He finally had somewhere to have a fresh start where people didn’t know what he was capable of, nor did anyone have a presumption set for Junior. With this new chapter in his life and new beginnings Junior had become someone he never had a chance to be at the Reservation. Junior was smart, intellectual, confident, observant and had a completely different mentality. Thanks to some very important people at Reardan like Gordy and Junior’s basketball coach, they were able to mentor and drive Junior to be the person he was ultimately trying to become. Gordy was an intelligent young man in Junior 's life who was able to connect books to some life morals. Because of Gordy, Junior finally made his own realization that “if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of life should be taken seriously as well” (95). At this moment in the book, Junior started to realize there was meaning to his life; why not enjoy it doing the things you love and are passionate about. One passion in

In the beginning, Junior the main character, is talking to Mr. P, his history teacher, and he gives junior a confession, “I deserve to get smashed in the face for what I’ve done to Indians,” (Pg. #42). At that time, even teachers were racists; not only blacks, but Indians as well. As Junior kept going on with his life, he joined the basketball team and he was interviewed by the news and he told them that he’s never going to giving up. “I have to prove that I’m stronger than everyone else. I have to prove that I will never give up,” (Pg. #186). Junior is trying to believe in himself and that he’ll go far in life. Junior already has something worth fighting for, his

act within society. In the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, Junior the

Being a youth blinds an individual from the reality in which they exist. Only with age does sagacity become a flourishing trait, allowing them to truly open their eyes to the world they chose to ignore for most of their adolescent years. They come to acknowledge and cherish the path carved out for them, as all along they had filled their esteem with the notion that all they had accomplished was due to their own acclaim. This was the incident Dr. Weaver, an African American integrated with an all-white high school as a boy, dealt with in his own life. With years of time to reflect upon his early teenage memories, he finally came to highlight the story that “came to save his life” (Weaver).