The Rez Sisters

Finding someone’s true identity is often hard to do. As defined, identity is a condition or character as to who a person or what a thing is; the qualities, beliefs, etc. that distinguish or identify a person or thing. In the book, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie, Junior is an Native American who goes through an unassuming adventure. Junior is a fourteen-year old Native American boy living on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Washington. This book revolves mainly

What does it meant to grow up? We will all start out not even being able to get around on our own, we need help. We all will grow up so we need to know how to make our own decisions. I have chosen the prompt, in a culture where we are bombarded with other people trying to define us, how do we make decisions for ourselves? Well there are multiple ways we can make decisions for ourselves, first we need to be able to we trusted If no one trusts you, why do you think they would let you make your

things with Rowdy. He was really scared that Rowdy would hate him forever . Junior fixed all his problems with Rowdy while he’s playing "one-on-one basketball for hours…” (pg. 230). Junior cares about his family a lots. When Junior grandmother and sister died in a row, Junior didn't know what to do without them. When they both died Junior keep blame himself that “she was only living in Montana in a cheap trailer house because I had gone to school in Reardan. She had burned to death because I had decided

(Heine, 269). This is represented strongly in the first game on the season which was between Reardan Junior’s new school and Wellpinit his old school. The game was held on the reservation and when Junior and his team got there they could hear the “rez basketball fans chanting Ar-nold suck!” (Alexie, 143) and when Reardan walked in every Indian in the gym turn their backs to him in a display of contempt (Alexie, 144). The reason the reservation fans were chanting Ar-nold sucks and not Jun-ior sucks

suspicious. In a tribally-controlled small town, eccentricities are viewed with much more suspicion. His family is the subject of much of his writing, which can be painful; but they will still come to hear him participate in a reading if it is close to the “rez”. Alexie’s books have been described as making the characters as odd and complex as anyone else (Campbell). Poetry gave Alexie his start as an author with his first published collection being The Business of Fancydancing but found that his poems, which

of 5,000, no stop light until I was in elementary school, and played with the neighbor children until dark. Living in a household of fourteen people in a three-bedroom trailer were at times hectic. My siblings were years older, and one of my older sisters began a family in her teen years. The household consisted of cooking for a large family or finding a location to relax. I am grateful to come from a large family. Playing with the neighborhood kids or spending time out of the house was a way to refresh

Throughout the novels Maus and The Absolutely true story of a Part-Time Indian characters Vladek and Junior are discriminated based on their race in unthinkable ways. Racial discrimination such as this targets the identity of a people and seeks to destroy it. Junior was encouraged to “kill the Indian and keep the kid” by society while Vladek was destined to a genocidal death. These horrible crimes, however, did not change either character’s identity or attitude towards their culture, but instead

realized that the reservations were supposed to be prisons and death camps. “But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten that reservations were meant to be death camps. I wept because I was the only one who was brave and crazy enough to leave the rez” (Alexie 217). Even though Junior wanted to get off his reservation, he still loved the people on it, despite them calling him a traitor. Further showing how Junior finally knew he made the right decision, even with his original doubts. However, it

supposed to die first, but they’re supposed to die of a heart attack or a stroke or of cancer or of Alzheimer’s. THEY ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO GET RUN OVER AND KILLED BY A DRUNK DRIVER!” (Alexie 158). Junior’s grandmother was like very few other people on the Rez, Junior writes, “Grandmother had never drunk alcohol in her life. Not one drop“ ( Alexie 158 ), but as a result of

There is beauty to trees. There is softness to air, a rumble to thunder. As well as a sort of magic to the tone of the pages in a book. Sherman Alexie is a Spokane-American novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker. At an early age, Alexie fell in love with the words printed on the thin pages of books. His writings formulate his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from various tribes. In the article “Indian Education” and the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time