The Rez Sisters

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and the movie Smoke Signals, also by Sherman Alexie, the main characters experience a world that is very different from the reservation they grew up on. Both stories explore life on the rez and life outside of the rez in the United States through the characters and the plots that have several similarities and differences. In both stories, Alexie creates characters that are very similar to each other. In the book, Junior is introduced. He is Native American

sick. I don’t know what I was sick with. With is probably the wrong word, a better word is of. I don’t know what I was sick of. Possibly my guilt from the past, I really had no idea. I knew I had to visit his house and give him an insight to what his sister. Specifically the past he didn’t know. Also, I still had to discipline him a bit by lecturing him about what a terrible thing he had done. Then, instruct him to do things that I failed to

Part-Time Indian The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a first person story about a Native American boy named Junior. Junior is a very smart high school freshman at school on the Spokane reservation (rez). There he lives with his two drunks of parents and his older sister. All his life he has been picked on by everyone except his only friend Rowdy. One day a teacher

opposite of Macbeth, Arnold let his surroundings convey into something positive. Arnold was cursed by being born into poverty, however this did not phase him. His parents did not have any plans for him, they wanted him to live on the Rez, since his sister had left. The Rez is a community for poor indians in which most people stay their whole life. On the contrary, this was not Arnold’s plan. Arnold lets his surroundings realize what's happening, “And because you're indian you start believing you’re destined

about leaving your birthplace for opportunity and hope. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Junior experiences much change in his life. He decides to transfer to a predominantly white farm school from the rez school. But, the rez was not happy with him transferring. In the process, he loses his best friend and family members. Junior learns many things about himself and how to lead himself through life. Throughout this essay, a few maxims will be highlighted that exemplify

In Arnold “Junior” Spirit’s life, the cards are completely stacked against him from the beginning. He was born with hydrocephalus: too much fluid in his brain. After a risky procedure he survived, but with several physical and mental problems including bad vision, a stutter, a lisp, and small stature. Junior was bullied a lot because of his physical differences. To make matters worse, Junior lives among the poorest of poor on a rural Indian reservation. Poverty is a risk factor because low socioeconomic

teeth in his mouth, awkwardly sized body parts, and random seizures as a child. Since his parents were very poor the hospital couldn’t do as much to help. Junior lived all his life with the Spokane Tribe going to a very low budget school he calls the “Rez”. On page 46 of this book, Junior tells his parents that he’s considering transferring to Reardan, one of the best schools in the state. This was very far away from where they lived but they had much more to offer such as a computer room, a huge laboratory

day. He “left” the reservation and is now very disliked there. This story goes through all of Juniors troubles and how he dealt with them. Junior really succeeds at Reardon, the white school, and he is not hated by the students there, unlike on the “rez.” Junior even makes friends at Reardon and gets good at things. He makes it onto the Varsity basketball team. Junior really succeeds in the school even getting good grades at the end. He does this with hope, he has kept hope this whole time and never

Native Americans are mostly judged by their addictions and the battles they fought. They are not normally judged by the hardships they had to face. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian and Smoke Signals show that these struggles are real. In his book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, and his movie, Smoke Signals, Sherman Alexie wrote about the challenges of being a Native American. Diary and Smoke Signals are similar because they both showed many family problems throughout

Arnold knew this so he decided to leave the rez in order to find hope. He changed schools from Wellpinit to Reardan an all white school, “Reardan was the opposite of the rez… the opposite of me,” (Alexie 56). Mary, Arnold’s sister, also knew that staying at the rez would keep her down so she ran away, “After seven years of living in the basement… she decided she needed to change her life,” (Alexie 89).