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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.

Sherman Alexie is a Native American man who is well known for his novels and short stories based on his experiences as a member of many different Native American tribes. In his short story “Indian Education”, Alexie details the struggles with bullying and discrimination one Native American boy went through during his time in school. Although “Indian Education” is written differently from other short stories it still conveys a solid theme and has a well written plot. Alexie’s style is also a benefit to the reader as they make their way through grade school with the main character, Victor.

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.

1~ Even if the indias change in looks, in the hearts they are still savages

“Each funeral was a funeral for all of us”: Notions of Race, Identity and Mortality in Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Adolescents experience a developmental journey as they transition from child to adult, and in doing so are faced with many developmental milestones. Physical, cognitive, social and emotional changes are occurring during this tumultuous stage of life, and making sense of one’s self and identity becomes a priority. Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian addresses the challenges of adolescence in an engaging tale, but deals with minority communities and cultures as well.

In the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, it talks about how Junior’s girlfriend Penelope has bulimia an eating disorder. The book said Penelope says she’s bulimic with her head held high. It has though being bulimic gives her a sense of achievement. The book makes you think that Penelope is honored to be bulimic. Then Junior said there are anorexics that are proud to be skinny and starved freaks (Alexie & Forney, 2007, p.107). With that being said, the issue being looked at for this paper is eating disorders among women of different human races.

According to several critics, an Indian American writer Louise Erdrich blend fiction and cultural identity of narration in traditional Euro-American narrative form, what leads to difficulties with perceiving and understanding her novels by common reader. Catherine Rainwater, in her essay “Reading Between Worlds,” argues, that because of Erdrich’s half-blooded nature, the constant cultural conflict along with the fictional element in the narratives of her novels “alienates” the reader from empathy and understanding of the Indians. However, in the article “The Trickster and World Maintenance,” critic Lawrence Gross expresses respect to Rainwater’s intelligent analysis of Erdrich’s novels but argues that he, as the Native Indian reader, does not

The novel's second major setting is Reardan, an affluent, mostly-white town 22 miles away from the reservation in Wellpinit. Reardan is home to the high school where Arnold decides to transfer. Arnold's identity in Reardan is not directly related to his tribe or his family. He is known in Reardan not as "Junior," but as

“Oh my. This is so different from India! I wish I was back there now! Instead of this hideous apartment here in Brooklyn.” Anindita complains, eyeing the mold on the walls and the cockroaches crawling deviously around. She shivers as one particularly large one creeps up the carob colored stone walls. “And shouldn’t my roommate be here by now? I hate late people!!”

The Ramayana is an epic poem that many Hindus consider to be scripture. The original version was written in Sanskrit by Valmiki. The Ramayana has been retold many times throughout the years and has been translated in many languages. The English version is based on the version in the Tamil language of South India which was written by Kamban. In 1972, Indian Novelist R.K. Narayan published this version. In this review I will define dharma, connect the story in terms of the Hindu concept of dharma and answer the following questions: what is Rama 's dharma? What is Sita ' dharma? What is Hanuman 's dharma? Because Hanuman is non-human, does this alter his dharma? What is Ravana ' dharma? Since he is a demon, he might fulfill his demon dharma by committing evil. The question still remains, Through Ravana ' actions how does this help prove the existence evil? By the end I will consider the marriage of Rama and Sita and how it was restored through divine intervention.

Gandhi premiere on November 30, 1982 in New Delhi, India. The 190 minute film was wonderfully directed by Richard Attenborough and well written by John Briley. I found this film difficult to “briefly” summarize, however I would like to share a short timeline of events through the film’s eyes.

“...Orientalism is not so innocent a form of knowledge as this. Instead, he redefines Orientalism as the ubiquity of a sense of the division of the world into two spheres in aesthetic production, popular culture, and scholarly, sociological, and historical texts. In other words, he is suggesting that the concept of difference between east and west is a geopolitical difference which is written up throughout the texts of western culture whether through travel writing, political texts, paintings, or in academic discussions” (Sharp 2009, 31).

modernism. Anand was a socially commited novelist, through his novels he has very strongly made Indians try to understand those traditional vices which are biggest hurdles of India becoming modern. Layers of oppressions, humiliation and economic disparity burdened Indian society so much that British colonialism seemed to be lesser factor in India’s progress rather than own Indian internal colonialism. From his works he has always tried to educate Indians to forcing their consciousness to think about the social problems that disseminated because of religious beliefs. We can see the India under British raj in his novels but he emphasizes on the decayed Indian society which is more responsible for India’s deterioting societal condition. Anand

E.M. Forster’s classic novel “A Passage to India” tells the story of a young doctor, Dr. Aziz, and his interactions with the British citizens who are residing in India during the time of the British Raj. Throughout the novel, the reader gets many different viewpoints on the people and the culture of India during this point in history. The reader sees through the eyes of the Indian people primarily through the character of Dr. Aziz, and the perceptions of the British through the characters of Mr. Fielding, Adela Quested, and Mrs. Moore. Through the different characters, and their differing viewpoints, the reader can see that Forster was creating a work that expressed a criticism that he held of the behavior of the British towards their Indian subjects.