Many people have resulted in alcohol in their lifetime. Alcohol has ruined many people's lives from the poor decisions they have done while they have been intoxicated. Alcoholism is a huge theme in this book. Everyone is the rez resorts to alcohol when they have a problem. The book The Absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian By Sherman Alexie is a Book about a boy named Junior. In Juniors family lives on the rez. There names are Arnold Spirit Sr (dad), Agnes Adams Spirit (mom) Mary Spirit (sister), his grandmother. Juniors best friend name is Rowdy. Rowdy has quite the anger problems and likes to get violent. When Junior decides to go to school off of the rez he meets a lot of new kids at his new school called the Reardan. Penelope becomes …show more content…
Junior's grandmother has died because of a drunk driver. She was walking home from a mini pow-wow at the community center when the driver struck her head on and killed her. As Junior said ¨ My grandmother had never drunk alcohol in her whole life. Not one drop. That's the rarest kind of Indian in the world.¨ (158) ¨I know only, like, five Indians in our whole tribe who have never drunk alcohol.¨ (158) As you could see alcohol is a huge problem on the Rez. Only about five people that Junior knows have never drank alcohol in the life time. His grandma was killed by a person that made a poor decision on driving home while intoxicated. The grandmother said that ¨ Drinking would shut down my seeing and hearing and my feelings.¨ (158) If drinking does this to peoples minds why would they keep on drinking if they knew what the consequences would be. The Rez should have a program that will show the effects of alcohol when it's in your system and when it's not. When Gerald made that mistake driving home, he ruined someones life in under 5 seconds. This is why drinking while you attempt to drive home or anywhere else is a horrible idea and could lead up too bad …show more content…
According to Junior ¨Eugene, was shot in the face in the parking lot of a 7-eleven in Spokane. Way drunk ,Eugene was shot and killed by one of his best friends, Bobby, who was too drunk to even remember pulling the trigger.¨ (168) Bobby didn't even know what he was doing while he was this intoxicated. The silly thing is they fought over a bottle of wine. Bobby soon regretted it when he was sober again. He would say Eugene's name over and over to try and bring him back. Later in that week Bobby hung himself in jail. Bobby couldn't live with the fact that he killed his best friend. This quote shows that they were both struggling and they resulted to alcohol for them to feel better but it just made everything