The Absolutely True Story Of A Part-Time Indian

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.

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.

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.

Do you think looking forward and trying to change a bad situation into a good one for having a better life is a wrong decision? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian is a novel written by Sherman Alexie. The novel is about Arnold Spirit; everyone calls him Junior. He is a teenage boy with a tough life who lives with his family in poverty on a Spokane Indian reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. He hates living in poverty and wants something better for himself. “I feel like I might grow up to be somebody important. An artist”(6) he claims. His living conditions are horrible; he studies in a school with a lack of resources. He considered the different aspects of moving to Reardan, he struggled about leaving

After reading the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, I got a much better understanding of what that title means. When you think of part-time you normally think of having a part-time job when you only work some days but not all the time. Well that is a lot like the life of the main character in this story. Throughout the book, Junior manages to be “half Indian” and “half white.” He says “ It was like being Indian was my job.” How could someone be “half Indian” and “half white?”

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

Adolescents experience a multitude of physical, cognitive, emotional, and social, and mental changes during a short span of years in their developmental journey to adulthood, and this transition period is full of many developmental changes and milestones. Some typical changes and milestones in an adolescent’s life include puberty, learning to drive, dating, developing new social relationships and social roles, cognitive changes, becoming sexually active, obtaining employment, and graduating high school. In addition to all of these changes in this tumultuous time of life, adolescents are identifying, developing, and coming to terms with their own sense of self, and learning about their identity becomes a priority. Teens and young adults must also address certain challenges that may arise in their lives such as bullying, drug and alcohol use, violence, sexual abuse, eating disorders, depression or other mood/mental health issues, and issues concerning sexuality, and gender identity. Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is an engaging story that deals with many of the challenges that all adolescents face, and this novel also addresses challenges that are unique to those teens who may be grappling with issues that face minority cultures and communities as well.

“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.

The Protagonist The protagonist of the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is Arnold Spirit or Junior. He was born and raised on a reservation. In the incoming years of his high school career, he would face a large amount of adversity. His first encounter with adversity, was when he got a geometry book from over thirty years ago, that was his mother’s.

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

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.

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

The novel is called The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian because it is the story written in three person limited about Arnold’s life. Arnold is an Indian currently living at a reservation when he goes and joins a white school, Reardan. The Absolutely True Diary part is there because Arnold story is correct in truth and accuracy because it is Arnold’s story and is based on Arnold’s perspective. The part of the novel saying A Part-time Indian is because Arnold is seen as a part Indian. Although he is an Indian, he adapted some of the white culture making him seem not just Indian, but white as well. The novel is called The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian because it reflects the novel’s purpose, the story of Arnold’s

The book itself is about an American Indian. The novel True Diary published in September 2007 this gave the author Sherman a chance to receive an award for his writing. He is also a poet and a filmmaker. Sherman was born to a Spokane Indian and his father came from a different Indian Tribe on the Spokane Reservation in WA. Sherman received his early education from the reservation school. He went to the Washington High School. He was an honorable student, and was a star basketball player. He attended the Universities of Spokane in the Washington State. He studied Pre-Med for a couple of years. He Received a Bachelor’s Degree for American Studies not long after that he received the honors of

The book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian should be taught at Douglas High School because it is a relatable book for the students because the main character has the struggles of teenagers, attempting to find what they want to do for jobs when they get older, bullying, and having no money at certain times. The students who are Native American can relate to the book on a different level than those who are not. The book has some profanity and sexual references but any student in high school who has watched R rated movies should be used to those items. The book will also teach readers to have hope even when everything in life is going against you, when Junior had 2 of his family members who were really close to him die, he still