The Rez Sisters

father is an alcoholic, and his mother is an ex-alcoholic. His father is the one who is in charge of getting Junior to school and back. Although he knows he has to travel 20 miles every day to get his son, he still wastes his money on alcohol. His sister never really talked to him at all, and then she moved which resulted in getting killed in a house fire. He has one friend on the reservation who isn’t really that supportive of him and is usually very mean and the complete opposite of him. When he

Jessica Ferguson July 22nd,2012 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie 1. What does Arnold mean when he says, “I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.”? What Arnold meant by the above quote was that he sees the worlds as broken dams and floods that represent the death, chaos and poverty around him. Everything around him is broken and damaged like his glasses. At the age of fourteen he has already been

In the world, we live in today, finding your identity is difficult. Many people want to be either “this” or “that”, race and ethnicity wise, but never really stop to appreciate their true self and accept who they are. In the novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie, Arnold struggles with feeling like an outsider while living on a reservation and attending Reardan, a predominately white school off the reservation. The transition is new however, it creates a difficult

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian: Theme Essay Living in a life full of poverty, alcoholic families, and grief isn’t a great starting point for your future. However, an Indian boy named Arnold is able get through these tragedies even when hope is almost lost. In the novel, Arnold is a basic cartoonist living in an Indian reservation, which is a place where other Native Americans live in poverty and grief. When Arnold decides to transfer school to Reardan High School, an all-white school

During that first year at Reardan High School, Arnold has to find his place at his all-white school, cope with his best friend Rowdy and most of his tribe disowning him, and endure the deaths of his grandmother, his father’s best friend, and his sister. Alexie touches upon issues of identity, otherness, alcoholism, death, and poverty in order to stay true to his characters and the cultures within the story. Through the identification of the role of the self, identity, and social behavior

Five million two hundred thousand Native Americans are suffering from poverty, alcoholism, unemployment and high rates of suicide (Peralta, "Native Americans Left Behind”). In the unfortunate events of discrimination and prejudice against First Nations, they are at huge disadvantages and do not have many rights (McCue, "Racism against Aboriginal People”). The famous writer, Sherman Alexie, also known as Junior, is able to share and beautifully capture his experiences through his book, The Absolutely

For our activism project, my sister, Maggie, and I went to the Ziibiwing Center in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. We live in the near-by village of Shepherd, so we decided to visit the Center while we were home for Easter break. I had been interested in visiting the Center for a number of years and saw this project as the necessary push to finally act on the desire. Mt. Pleasant is located right next to the reservation of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe. At times is hard to tell where the reservation

his problems through out high school and middle school. The story explains juniors conflicts and how he made changes to become a bettter person. The story takes place while Juniors in high school and middle school. The setting of the story is at the rez and the high schools. The story happend because Junior had a hard time going through high school. It happend because the way junior reacted to the conflicts in

Sherman Alexie is an award-winning author who wrote the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. The book is a semi-autobiography of Alexie’s life and his experience growing up on an Indian Reservation, as well as a more economically well-off school, where he was the only Native American student. The book gives readers the opportunity to get an idea of what life is like living on an impoverished reservation. It depicts the struggles of young Arnold Spirit Jr., or Junior, as he is

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