Review Of The Book 'The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian'

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian has caused me to reflect on how community has an impact on our approach in life. This book shows how Junior life at the reservation isn't the best because the Indian culture has been placed in a community of poverty and the lack of resources that limits education and impacts family dynamics. This inhibits the culture to grow and individuals to be free and express themselves without social pressure. Many people around Junior on the reservation have lost hope, including Junior. People deal with substance abuse and mental issues. While Junior deals with a brain condition and is a "weird" outcast in search for hope he attends a rich white school to find hope.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is the story of Junior’s journey to discovery of self. Like many teens, he finds himself

At the beginning of Sherman Alexie’s novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, it is very apparent that although it is told in a very lighthearted setting, the reality of the world that the main character Junior lives in is a very bleak and depressing, with the modern treatment of Native Americans on reservations coming to light in a rather bizarre fashion. However, that’s not all that’s wrong with Junior’s world, as he was born with cerebral hydrocephalus, also known as “water in the brain,” as he puts it. He has had a hard time growing up and living his life, as he showcases the struggles of living in poverty, and having an alcoholic father. Despite his hardships, he has found a majority of joy through his best friend, Rowdy.

Transferring to Reardon was a big transition for Junior. He was in school with a lot of other Indians, to just being the only indian in an all white school. Transferring impacted his life in many different ways. Because of how poor the reservation was Junior knew it was time to be different and take his life down another path. In the book, The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie, when he transferred a lot of deaths happened and the amount of friends he had increased because he became more brave and also his academics were better.

“Jeez, I felt like one of those Indian scouts who led the U.S. Cavalry against other Indians” (182), Arnold says when he is playing basketball against his old Indian school with his new all white school. This is in the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. This quotation in the book is important because it talks about Arnold’s struggle to feel like he fits in as white or Indian.

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to live on an Indian reservation? Well in the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie you can begin to see and know what it is like. This novel focuses around the life of a boy named junior who struggles with fitting in anywhere, on the rez, or in the white school he goes to. You can see his struggle with connecting to his family and people off the rez in this book. In this journal, I will be questioning why Junior goes to a new school, predicting that he will become friends with Rowdy again, and connecting Junior to a candle. First, I will be questioning why Junior decides to start going to school off the reservation. I think the reasoning is because he is fed up with the way

Sherman Alexie based this novel off his own childhood and even included the details about his medical problems that affected him all throughout his life. He included some of the deaths he had to cope with, including those of his sister and grandmother While most stories about Native Americans do not come from the perspective of a child, especially a male child, this story is unique. His tribal heritage greatly influenced his work. The authors own experiences shown through very clearly as he gave a very realistic tale of growing up on a reservation. He spoke very boldly about the issues of poverty, alcoholism, depression, and physical abuse within the reservation.

“I was born with water on the brain” (Alexie 1), Sherman Alexie starts his novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. His first sentence explains it all; the main character of his book, Arnold Spirit Junior, is not an ordinary boy. Junior was born with a rare condition called Hydrocephalus; it made him prone to seizures, brain damages and to get picked on and bullied. However, the same impairment makes him a fighter. He fights off his brain surgery, seizures and the bullies. He fights for hope and to survive. Not just his disability, Junior was also different because of his skin color and his poverty-stricken family. Nevertheless, the differences motivates him to strive for more. If he was not any different from the other

Similar Experiences Between Arnold and Me Throughout Sherman Alexie’s novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Arnold Spirit, the main character of the novel, tells us about his experiences and his feelings. Arnold lives in a poor Indian family, and he is different from other normal people from the beginning. Since he was born, he has had seizures, lopsided visions of his eyes and a stutter, so many people sometimes look down upon him. Nevertheless, he doesn’t give up on his life, and he tries his best to become a popular man.

The novel, "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian," by Sherman Alexie, is a tale about a hopeful 14-year-old boy named Arnold Spirit, also known as Junior, and the challenges that he faces being a poverty-stricken Spokane Native American Indian in a "white" man's world. Throughout the novel, Junior endures numerous obstacles and hardships; despite all of his adversities, he was determined to make a better life for himself and decided to go to a predominately white school away from his Indian reservation, where he had lived all of his life. Unfortunately, Junior did experience several problems relating to his cultural identity, some he faced while he was at his new school, others were on his Indian reservation, even though these obstacles temporally held him back he was able to overcome them.

The poem, “The Theft Outright” by Heid E. Erdrich, a Native American woman refutes claims made by another author, Robert Frost, that America was empty before the colonists. She counters his beliefs by citing the colorful, full lives of natives in the past and now. Frost’s claims demonstrate blatant racism by erasing the entire native culture and race from history. The book “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie tells the story of Arnold Spirit Jr, a Native American boy who switches from his poverty stricken reservation school to a school in a small town off the reservation called Reardan for a better education. Junior frequently faces challenges of racism, he is seen as less than his white peers at his new school, and is

Should parents consider not showing the real world to their children? How are children going to know what real life consists of their parents are holding them back to be prepared for the real world. In the novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie he talks about a poor Indian boy with special effects who overcomes the most difficult obstacles if his life. The novel should be a teaching tool for children not only the kids with difficult lives but also to the wealthy kids. In the article “why the Best kids Book Are written in Blood” by Sherman Alexie it says “ and had been inspired by my autobiographical story of a port reservation Indian boy and his desperate and humorous attempts to find a better life.”

In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Arnold goes through so much in his life on the reservation. Arnold lives in poverty with his dad, mom, grandmother, and sister. He switches to an all white school to have a better future. Some of his family and friends pass away, including his sister, grandmother, and Eugene. He also has friend troubles with Rowdy, his best friend after his dog dies. Arnold discovers his identity by overcoming poverty, addiction, and loss.

The book we were reading is called The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, and was written by Sherman Alexie. The main characters in the story are Junior, Rowdy,Mr. P, Mary, and his family. I enjoyed the book because it was was interesting to me and was different compared to the other books I have read. My favorite moment in the book was when Junior punched Roger because I thought they were going to fight, and it shows that junior has power to fight for his rights, and to show he's not just a idian from a poor town.

“ The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian ” By Sherman Alexie is a comical, but very true story wrote about the life of a teenage Native American. The main character, known as Arnold, was born into a complicated life. As a young child, he was born with fluid surrounding his brain which caused him to have surgeries at a very young age that later followed with terrible results. Like many other cultures with unique lifestyles, he struggles with many problems. Looking different, talking different, and just the fact that he is Native American are just some of the things he always gets picked on for. But it always seems to come down to where living poor, and having parents that are alcoholics become his main struggle. I chose this novel because it was written about a Native American in a teens perspective, so it is easier