Part Time Indian Facing Challenges

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.

When kids are younger, they are told that being different is good. And it is, sometimes. A lot of people are different. But, at other times, being different can limit your chances. This is shown in the novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian. This novel is about a boy named Junior that is different than the rest of his peers. He is the only Indian going to an all white school. Some of his experiences there show that being different isn’t all that good, sometimes. The book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie, and the article, “Adding a Disability Perspective When Reading Adolescent Literature” both portray how being different can limit someone’s chances and opportunities.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, the title even catches my attention. I could tell from just looking at the cover page it would be a hit. Junior, he’s faced with several different situations, and most of the time, the outcome always ended terrible. His life was not perfect at all. Junior managed to get through the struggle. Most importantly he never forgot where he came from, no matter how far away from home he was.

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.

challenging experiences ? I know that i have gone through some challenges throughout my seventeen Years of living. For instance , i haven't met my biological mother my whole life and i have always Lived with my grandparents. Most of the time i don't feel like i belong and i am constantly changing to make me feel like i am okay and that i belong where i am and soon i will get to where i want to be . In this novel , Always Running by Luis j. Rodriguez. The main character grillo changes throughout the novel when he gets bullied , joins gangs To feel belonged and gets violent.

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’s character arc is focused on him trying to figure out where he belongs and just what makes someone belong there. Is belonging part of birth? Choice? What is the power of a name? We see his struggle identity the clearest when he moves from the reservation to Reardan and is called Arnold rather than Junior. His decision to move splits his identity down the middle, and this novel is him trying to figure out who he is and who he wants to be. There is also a culture of defeat and poverty on the reservation. The poverty in this book, as a theme, is most clearly expressed by Arnold when he states: “poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be

Even though life can be very difficult and excruciating, there will always be good and happy things that will cancel the bad out. As in Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Junior was embarrassed of being poor, but his friends still love and support him when they found out. His best friend, Oscar, died because he was too sick to afford, but he has other friends to rely on. And he can't get a ride to school everyday because of gas money his family doesn't have, but he has people who will take him and help him

With this being said Junior knows that “My parents came from poor people who came from poor people who came from poor people” (14). This is the cause but it effects Junior in multiple ways. Junior starts out by being stuck going to a poor uneducated school on the reservation. His family is unable to provide food and good clothing to Jr.With everyone on the reservation being in poverty shows that they lack education. In junior’s family his mother and sister are very smart.

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

It is natural for every person that he finds himself in a conflicting situation where he thinks that he has no identity. In such a situation of crisis, he asserts himself through different means though it may be a bitter truth or he himself gets insult in response. Arnold in The Absolute True Diary of a Part Time Indian faces the same situation, but he does not leave the truth. Whatever he has encountered in rez or at Reardan, he has plainly told it in a very simple language that it seems touching obscenity and crossing the limits of decency. That is why the novel faced bans in different states after it was published. However, the struggle Arnold waged in order to make himself recognized is heroic one despite realization that he belongs to the underdogs and there is no hope. His struggle is rather a hope against hope, yet he knew that "life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community" (132) in which case he belonged to Indians, a Sokane Community in which he was raised. When the novel opens, he starts with his mental disabilities how he suffered from "cerebral spinal fluid" (2). Despite suffering these diseases, having developed several disabilities, acute consciousness of his own deformed body, unsupportive background, poverty, Indian legacy of stubborn and dullard nature, he not only becomes truthful but also

Junior has gone through a lot struggle. He was born by a poor family. His family didn’t had enough money, they sometimes could hardly survive. Junior said that his sometimes had to skip meals or stayed hunger for

Firstly, Junior is often left to fend for himself because there is not enough money to go around. It states “My dad was supposed to pick me up. But he wasn’t sure if he’d have enough gas money.” (Alexie 87). This displays how Junior parents usually don’t have enough money to get him to and from school. Junior still does not stop him from going to school at Rearden, because this is one of his all time goals. Even though Junior has to face all of these setbacks he still manages to have good grades. Moreover, sometimes Junior has to lie about how much money h has just so that it is easier for him to continue attending Rearden. “My parents gave me just enough money so that I could pretend to have more money than I did.” (Alexie 119). This displays how Junior must lie about how much money he actually has. Even though Junior has very little money himself he doesn't allow this to impact his academics. Therefore, even though Junior has many struggles because he lives in poverty he still works hard to design and build his own path for the

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.

“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.