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depressed. In Sherman Alexie's "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian"it is about a boy named junior and he is an Spokone Indian. He leaves an all indian school to an all white school. Junior has a father, that abuse alochol, a sister that left the rez and got married and in between he's best friend hates him too. Junior family is poor because his father drinks excessivley. Firstly, Junior family is poor because his father drinks. however he's father drink for no reason. Junior says on

other kids his age, as well as adults. At the beginning of the book, Junior shows how he was bullied by explaining, Everybody on the rez calls me a retard about twice a day. They call me a retard when they are pantsing me or stuffing my head in the toilet or just smacking me upside the head. p. 4 and then later saying, Do you know what happens to retards on the rez? We get beat up. At least once a month. Yep, I belong

At some point in time, everyone has thought that life is unfair. Whether it a toddler who didn’t get there way or a star athlete that was cut from the team, it’s happened to us all. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Arnold Spirit Junior lives with that feeling everyday. This award winning novel by Sherman Alexie tells Arnold’s story and experiences from being raised on the Spokane Indian Reservation. He works his way through bullying, racial differences, and tragedies with wit,

“Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.” This quote by Roy T. bennett perfectly sums up Juniors journey in the book at the beginning of the book he is scared and shy,but after talking with Mr.P he gets the courage to do what he thinks is best for him, go to reardan there he thinks he is going to fail because he is a indian but, he pulls through and even makes it onto the basketball team doing things he never thought

As William Shakespeare once said, “Expectations is the root of all heartache.” Up until a short time ago, African Americans in the United States were expected to use other bathrooms, schools, sit in the back of the bus, and overall not interact with white people, women were expected to simply give birth to children, stay at home, take care of them, cook, and clean. In the texts, “The House on Mango Street”, by Sandra Cisneros, and “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, by Sherman Alexie

I think everyone have to do something to prove themselves but the two authors that i´m going to to talk about went through so much to prove that they were meant for greatness.The two authors who i am going to talk about are Sherman Alexie and Maya Angelou, their stories are ¨Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian¨ and ¨Occupation: Conductorette¨. This essay is about two stories that talk about overcoming racism and diversity to prove that they are more than what people assume about them. The

Statistics from “Native Americans: The Tragedy of Alcoholism” show that almost 12% of deaths among Native Americans are alcohol-related. Why does this matter, you might ask, well alcoholism plays a tremendous part in the novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”. The novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexei is about Junior’s hardships and difficulties through life as he lives a double life going to Reardan, which is a school full of white kids, to the

Everyone has a cultural identity, although sometimes we have a hard time accepting them. Sherman Alexie’s The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is about a brain damaged Indian boy named Junior who lives in a Spokane Indian Reservation and decides to make a move that will alter his life and the lives around him drastically. One thing about Junior is that he loves to draw, he loves to draw so much Sherman states, “ So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance to escape the

In Sherman Alexie’s novel The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman uses “Community and ‘homing in”; “Land and Nature”; and “History” to make the historical adolescent novel a part of American Indian literature. “Community and ‘homing in” is used when Junior leaves the reservation for a better future, and in return the reservation resents Junior for leaving the reservation and becoming “White-washed”. Alexie uses “land and Nature” to create liminal spaces when the protagonist of the

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian tells the story of a Spokane Indian teenager who is born with disabilities into a community of poverty. He decides to leave his home reservation to go to another school in the white community. There, he experiences racism and other challenges. Throughout the story, he is affected by poverty, loss, hunger, and racism, all part of Author Sherman Alexie’s message that survival techniques are needed to exist in two worlds. Alexie uses conflict, cartoons