Have you ever lost someone or something like a privilege; become hurt or angry and refused to let anyone help you? Well, you may want to think that over. Junior and Teo From The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and from The Lightning Queen have both suffered losses. Junior, is an indian living on a reservation. Education from him was not great, and he let one of the teachers know it when he got a textbook with his mother’s name in it. In maybe not the calmest manner, he throws the book at his teacher. But that teacher stayed by his side and encouraged him to go to the white school so he could get a better education. So, he went. And it turned out better for him then he would have ever expected. Teo, lost his sister to a storm. His …show more content…
In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Junior is already at a loss when he is born. He is indian and lives on a reservation. Nothing there is great, especially education. But Junior is smart, so he left the reservation to go to a white school; where the education would be able to live up to his abilities. When he goes, it worked out better than expected. He found friends, and of course a better education; which was his goal and more. He learned a lot from that school; Including that he was “Smarter than most of those white kids” (Alexie 84). In The Lightning Queen, Teo suffers from the loss of his sister, which changes him. He comes more of a pessimist and forgets the good things in life. He is always in a low gloomy mood. But, he is able to find hope in other people, places and things. Finding that hope helped him out of the blue, and back to his happy self. Just being surrounded by happy people made him better. They showed him how to be happy and look at the glass like it is half full. The question is where do you find such …show more content…
Teo was scared at first. For instance Esma had Teo scream to get everything out. He thought it was crazy, what if someone hears? But, after stepping out of his comfort zone to try it; he say how freeing it really was. Even was Esma was no longer there, he did it. But that is is just one of many things that Esma showed him. He was just generally afraid. He wanted to be happy, but he did not know how, and he did not want to try. He was more comfortable just being sad then trying to be happy. What if it got worse? What if it made him more sad? It was stepping out of his comfort zone for sure. But, with a little help he was able to try it. It turned out better than he ever could have wished. With Junior, going to a white school was WAY out of his comfort zone. He could get made fun of by the whites, for he was poor and indian and they were white and rich; and what about the people on the res? They might feel betrayed and not like him anymore, not except him anymore. When Mr.P told him this, he even said to himself “I did not know what he was talking about. Or maybe I did not want to know” (Alexie 42). He was admitting to himself that he knew going to the white school was for the better. But he did not want to. He wished there was a way not so far out of his comfort zone. But he trusted his teacher, and went; and look how it turned out for him. He got the education he needed, and made friends. At
Survival is a very important part of any life and survival is a culmination of all the driving forces behind our success. The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time Indian explores this concept closely. This exposition will be arguing that survival is in fact a large part of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and shows that through many different facets, it will also be showing some examples of this and defining further how this correlates to this concept.
You don’t want to be a carbon copy of someone else. But, especially during your younger years, being different is not something you want to be. Bryan Crandall helps explain how being different can limits chances you have. It is about having a disability, which Junior has in the book, so it can really relate to him. It talks about what it is like to be different and be treated differently and get different chances than everyone else just because you have a disability. It said some really interesting things about being different. It also said something about Indians being different, which directly relates to Junior. When talking about reservation life and how Native Americans are considered different, just like people with disabilities, the article states that “Native Americans have been deemed not normal; they need to be kept away, reserved, from regular society” (Crandall 75). The quote makes it clear that Indians were not considered the same as everyone else. The fact that they needed to be kept away from everyone seems a little extreme, but it shows that they don’t have the same opportunities as someone not on a reservation, because they are stuck there. Their chances are limited because they are different than what society thinks normal is. The people not on reservations and that are considered normal have a better chance at having a good life than the Indians on the reservations.
In ''The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian'', Arnold spirit, who is an Indian boy, lives on a Spokane Indian Reservation with alchoholic parents. Adding to that, he is a hydrocephalic, which has affected his speaking ability and he had to deal with being bullied and getting picked on in school. However, he wants to overcome these challenges and move on in life to something better, because he is dissatisfied with the situation he is in. Later in the story, he decides to go to a white school where he begins feeling like a part-time indian.
Money is said to be the source of all power in the world, but what can be said for the impoverished? In the case of Sherman Alexie's novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, we follow the story of Junior, a Native American highschooler struggling to find his place in a world of discrimination and poverty. After some close and careful speculation, it can be decided that the most important theme of this novel is how racism and poverty can cause a number of issues for people in the world because the events in the novel display real life issues people face in the world today.
Junior Spirit, from the book “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie, and Randy Pausch from the book “The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch both face many challenges. In “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, Junior Spirit faces many challenges, that include poverty, being bullied and not fitting in, and losing people who were important to him. In “The Last Lecture”, Randy Pausch faces challenges such as trying to write a last lecture that would mean something to his children, and trying to spend as much time with his family as possible. Junior learns to be confident in himself and Randy learns to not be so arrogant. Though they had different problems, and dealt with
In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Junior shows a ton of courage. His massive amounts of courage show when he choses to go to school off the reservation. Another time is when he has to play basketball against the school he went to on the reservation and his best friend, Rowdy, who was pretty mad at him for going to the “white” school. “I immediately stole a pass and drove for a layup. Rowdy was right behind me. I jumped into the air, heard the curses of two hundred Spokanes, and then saw only a bright light as Rowdy smashed his elbow into my head and knocked me unconscious.” (Alexie 146). This quote showed that even with his
They say that home is where the heart is, but they are wrong. Home is where you are accepted amongst your peers, it is where you have people who love and support you. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Junior, a young native teenager, faces the dilemma of belonging in Reardan, a white town that he transferred schools to, or Wellpinit, the Indian Reservation where he was born and raised. In Reardan, he has many more friends than he ever had in the 14 years he lived in Wellpinit, and he does not get beat-up or called names. Furthermore, in Reardan, he has a huge outpouring of support from all the people who live there and watch his basketball games.
Junior may have lost some people from his life but he gained much more. Missing school for over fifteen days, Junior returned to school after Eugene’s death. When his teacher mocked him in class he did not stand up for himself because he was joyless and broken. Instead, it was his friends who had defended him. Gordy who defended him first “stood with his textbook and dropped it”(175). After Gordy’s act, all of their classmates began to feel inspired by Gordy’s courage that they all dropped their textbooks and walked out too. Junior had friends outside of the reservation who are there for him even if he was different. He felt joy and hope again with the help of his friends. When his sister passed away, he decided to go to school because everyone
Facing challenges is a part of life; there will be challenges easier than others and ones that many would rather run away from In the novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part- Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, a young Indian boy named Junior moves to a new school after he thought about his life on the rez. He is faced with challenges throughout the school year and makes new allies. The main character, Junior, is then able to overcome challenges such as being born from the Rez, racism, and low expectations of his future.
Essay Alcohol abuse is when someone miuses alcohol and they have no contral. Alcohol abuse is important problem because it ruins family relationship. Also it can make the victim of drinking very depressed. In Sherman Alexie's "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian"it is about a boy named junior and he is an Spokone Indian.
“Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend” author William Feathers would acknowledge and I have realized that I've lost a valuable friend after perusing The Absolute True of a Part-Time Indian. Sherman Alexie’s novel is a journey through the mind of a writer as he attempts to chronicle his daily life. This autobiographical depiction of life on a reservation is bleak but hopeful yet also heartrending and uplifting. This novel discusses about Arnold Spirit or Junior, a member of the Spokane Indian Tribe, that decides to attend a school filled with white kids. As Junior struggles to create a scintillating future for himself he finds himself impacted by racism and depression but the hardships he faces aren't enough to make him lose hope.
Growing up isn't just a struggle but the most important time in life where people form their opinions. This novel was very relatable because of the similar experiences. The novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian author Sherman Alexie expresses the idea that growing up is a journey and life is meeting new people. This becomes clear when finishing the book, because Arnold met new people that made an influence on him.
In The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007), Sherman Alexie offers his autobiographical depiction of reservation through the lens of metaphor to reveal the small segment of his life in a creative way. The genre of the book is creative nonfiction and consciously written for the young-adult readers to spread awareness about the social problem in the community of the Native Americans. The title of the book represents the dual identity in the life of main character because he was travelling in-between the borderlines of Native American and white culture. Alexie presents the character of Junior as a self -reflective image of his survival and the endurance of his own past. Likewise, the title of the book also fulfills the purpose of the overall themes in the novel.
In the story, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Junior was very adamant about being Rowdy’s friend, even after Rowdy was being horrible and unsupportive. This is an abusive relationship, but really I think it could just be their normal. To begin with the way Rowdy treats Junior is very aggressive, and exaggerated compared to how Junior treats Rowdy and his friends at Reardan High School. One exception to Junior not being aggressive is when Junior hit Roger, but that was because he felt that’s what had to be done.
A Tribe of Friends People have all kinds of different friends in their lives that can help them in all sorts of ways. In the book, Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian written by Sherman Alexie, Arnold is a disabled indian boy who lives on a reservation but transfers to a white school to get a better education. Although Arnold has many problems in his life, his diverse group of friends, “a Tribe”, that help him overcome these obstacles. Arnold has a very trustworthy friend; Rowdy, his best friend, who lives on the reservation. Arnold describes Rowdy as, “my best human friend and he cares about me, so he would always tell me the truth.”