Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time Indian Analysis

The Path to Identity People often say they know who they are when they really don’t. Some people just don’t care, but the ones that do, the ones that are willing to go the extra mile to find out, those are the people that will be successful in life. To find out who you really are, you need to be persistent because life will throw everything it has at you to keep you from being successful but you need to be willing to go the extra mile to make it. In the book Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Alexie Sherman Arnold perseveres through numerous hardships on his path to identity. Of these hardships, three of them are Arnold had no role models, had to leave his home to seek better education and hope, and had to dodge the plague of giving up while going through his hardships. Society has plenty of role models for everyone, people that spark your dreams or give you a path to follow. Arnold has no one like this in his life. No

Regardless of these hardships, Arnold never gave up, they may have slowed him, but they did not stop him. After Arnold began attending Reardan High School, his tribe treated him even worse than they had before and they called him a traitor. Soon after, his grandmother died, followed by the death of his older sister that moved away. When this happened, the burning fire of hope inside Arnold started to die down “But I still missed my sister, and no amount of love and trust was going to make that feel better” (Pg.216). Arnold stopped attending school for a period of time. Almost completely void of hope due to these hardships that Arnold faced, Arnold went back to school knowing that he couldn’t give up now and was brought into the light in his times of darkness by his friends. Arnold persisted even through the great losses in his life. He couldn’t give up now having gone this far. Even through death you can’t give up, the greatest loss in life isn’t death, but what dies