The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

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

In Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007) a teenage boy named Junior, explains his struggle of breaking the cycle of his indigenous people and moving between an Indian American reservation (the ‘rez’) and a mainstream school in a town called Reardon. The protagonist explains, through first-person accounts, his life on the reservation and his experiences as he attempts to break the cycle of alcoholism and poverty that is imposed on him merely because he is an Indigenous

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a young adult novel about a teenager named Junior who experiences the hard but good parts about high school, and about growing up. This novel takes Junior on a journey to find himself and survive high school. Many young adult novels today that involve high school do not show the real problems some people face because the authors feel it is best to shelter teeagers from the truth. However, in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian the author

said “First you take a DRINK then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” Later Fitzgerald capitulated and died of a heart attack due to being an alcoholic the last 2 years of his life. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian written by Sherman Alexie talks about a 14 year old Indian boy changing his life. He goes to a white school, and changes into a different person throughout the story. The story talks about other real life dilemmas, like death and alcohol. There are multiple

Adolescence is a time of Changes 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

dehumanized. Sherman Alexie’s award winning novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian depicts life as a teenage Native American who decides to go against the cultural expectations set for him and go to school off of his tribe’s reservation. Through poverty, bullying, loss, and racism, Arnold Spirit Junior navigates his way through adolescence while attempting to achieve his goals. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie uses several significant events in Junior’s

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

an entirely different person and change everything you once knew, whether for better or worse. This choice could be as large as buying a house or as small as deciding what movie to see. This is one of the themes in the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. The main character Arnold, also known as Junior, makes a choice that transforms his life for good. Arnold is a Native American teenager living on a reservation in Spokane. The choice that transforms his life is his decision to

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 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

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