The Absolute True Of A Part-Time Indian

Arnold/Junior Spirit is a fourteen year old Spokane Indian who lives on a small reservation in Washington state. In the book The Absolutely True Diary of a part-Time Indian, Junior leaves his reservation for a primary white school called Reardan to find hope. He struggles with friendships, family, basketball, school work and identity through the year. His experiences on and off the reservation, are constantly changing his beliefs to become less racist and more positive. For example, Junior begins thinking that hope is barely reachable for him, but ends the book realizing that nothing stops him from having hope except how much he works for it.

I believe that in order to enjoy life, one must always maintain a happy state for their whole life. Although, I might not suffer too much, but, other people may be suffering for their whole lives. This real-world application also applies to The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie with Junior. Junior suffers from hatred and losses, but yet somehow he manages to stay happy.

Sometime we built walls around us to protect ourselves from others, because we want to be alone, we built them because in the past we’ve been hurt. We hang a sign outside them saying “do not disturb.” Then it gets lonely we see people outside and they are having fun then you wonder; what if you let a person in, will it be fun? or will they hurt you? so you decided to open the door, see if someone comes and then there is a person standing right there in front of the walls, he was hoping you open the doors soon so he can come in and he passes. The moment he passes through that door everything changes, life becomes more fun more interesting more adventurous. After all letting people in can be pretty damn amazing.

dian skins, and had paint on their faces, but after reading Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, my views changed. Indians culture is the total opposite of my view before this class. Indians live on reservations, have half the resources we have, speak a different language and try to keep it in their culture, and more. In this class, I watched this video called thirty-days living on the Navajo Indian reservation and a man was saying how the government wouldn’t give them the resources they need. For example, the reservation only gets less than half the water we use each week, That reminds me of chapter 13, “It’s all political,” because it’s a reference of how the reservation doesn’t get the help it needs. Another part in the video is

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.

How can you grow up around alcohol abuse and on a Indian Reservation where chances to be successful are low, but be able to become a successful author with a National Book Award? Sherman Alexie did just that. Sherman Alexie is the author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian which is about his crazy life as a kid. He takes you through his worst and best moments of his childhood, he also goes through what were his most difficult obstacles and how he overcame them. In his book he uses his childhood name Junior and he tells us all the kinds of oppression he faced as a kid. The most difficult and strenuous form of oppression Junior faces in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is alcohol abuse and he overcomes it with the support and care he receives from his community, friends and family.

The Absolutely True diary of a Part-Time Indian, written by Sherman Alexie, is a semi-autobiographical novel that narrates the story of a Native American teenager. The narrative uses ‘humour to soften the sometimes difficult and emotional story’ of the protagonist, Arnold ‘Junior’ Spirit who was born with ‘water on the brain’ and is constantly targeted by bullies. The main themes that is carried throughout the novel is isolation as well as determination. These themes are expanded on with many of Arnold’s life events. Throughout the novel there are many narrative features; some of these are focalisation, diction, imagery and point of view. All of these narrative features positions the reader on how native Americans are seen as a lower class than white people as they are poorer than the white people.

According to Sherman Alexie in “Hope against Hope” and “Go Means Go” in “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” in order for Junior to find hope he has to leave the reservation. After Arnold is suspended from school for throwing a book at his instructor, Mr. P came by to visit with him and forgive Arnold for hitting him with a book. He explains to Arnold when he first started teaching, he was trained to beat Indian children, and he wanted to make an apology. Mr. P uses Arnolds, Sister Marie as an example, to not give up hope, for she wanted to become a romance novelist and gave up on her dreams. Therefore, he encourages Arnold to succeed and tells him he deserves better. Mr. P explains to Arnold if he stays he will lose hope like

Throughout the “Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” book by Sherman Alexie, there were struggles of what it means to be an Indian. It gives us a comparison and contrast of Junior being white or Indian. What it means to be Indian is that throughout the book, was when Junior transferred to Reardan, he started seeing himself as having two different selves: his past (like how he described in a drawing of himself) as Junior from the outcast from the reservation and his future as Arnold from the white high school at Reardan. At the end of the book, Junior finally found who he is and decided that he is still part of the Indian rez, that he is just in more than one tribe. In the beginning, when Junior decided to leave his reservation, many

Sherman Alexie's novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” tells the story of a high school student named “Arnold Spirit” (Junior). Junior lives on the Spokane Indian reservations. Early in the book Junior leaves his reservation to join a more academically improved “White School”. He was born with too much cerebral spinal fluid in his skull which he is teased for at school. Although the book is relatable, to a high school student, it should not be forcibly read at schools. Students at Arnold’s school treat him differently because of his race. Throughout the book it’s racist, it has bad influences on students, and it has inappropriate language.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian written by Sherman Alexie is a novel which talks about a native American Arnold Spirit, a.k.a Junior. This novel talks about his struggles and s major decision he took upon encouragement from his school-teacher to leave the Reservation and study at Reardan High School for a better future. This novel has a large variety of interesting themes but the one which stands out is Hope.

There are many books around the world that are being banned and have been for hundreds years. The earliest book burning known was about two-thousand years ago in what is now China by the Qin dynasty. Books have been banned for numerous reasons like racial issues, damaging lifestyles, sexual situations, violence, and inappropriate behavior for the age it 's been given to. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is one of those books and actually almost consists of all of the reasons most books are banned. The book is actually one, if not the most, challenged book in the United States. Sherman Alexie 's 2007 novel The Absolutely True Diary of the Part-Time Indian is considered a controversial novel because of it 's demeaning references to alcohol, poverty, bullying, violence, and sexual innuendos, as well as for the tragic deaths of characters and the use of profanity or slurs related to homosexuality and mental disabilities throughout the novel but students should be allowed to read it because of the life lessons it teaches.

i always used to read books because they teach us a lot of things about life and not onl .book helps you to understand life because ideas and stories behind any novels are based on reality or if not ideas anyway problems which occurs there are from real life e.g love,death,friendship,trust and e.t.c .when writer writes a book it’s necessary for him to create story very carefully because every book must depict reality, even fantastic ones,also interpretation is also very important , the way, how writer will tell you a story. so for me story behind the books is interesting and i am trying to search information about every book i read.

Authors write many books within years but not every author writes a good novel. But think living in a dysfunctional society is easy especially when the society a person lives in is separated by the segregation of Native and White Americans? Well Junior the protagonist strives to fight the conflict poverty, and go out of his way to find his true identity and achieve the life he desires. Throughout the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, readers see Junior the main character also known as Arnold Spirit Junior suffer from poverty, racism and discrimination. Junior struggles to be the individual he desires because of the segregation between White and Native Americans. Junior realizes staying on the reservation

Poverty is a common issue that has troubled nations for thousands of years. Poverty for some people is like a punishment for a crime they did not commit. At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day. According to an anti-poverty group, nearly 1 in 3 Native Americans (29.2%), over 1 in 4 African Americans (27.2%),and 1 in 10 non-Hispanic whites (9.6%) live below the federal poverty line. These are all examples of how poverty is current in people's lives today. This is related to the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part - Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Throughout the story poverty is a common subject in characters in the book. The main character, Arnold, lives with his family on an Indian reservation. Arnold struggles to find hope