In the novel,Absolutely True Diary Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Axle,Arnold spirit, the protagonist, is a nerdy kid with health problems. Arnold has big hands and a big head that many people make fun of him for. Also, he is so smart that he has to act dumb so that Indians won’t know how smart he is. ‘’like he said in the book that I have to look dumb near them so that they will now that i don 't belong’’. Arnold has health problems because he said that it happens to him in the beginning of the book.
In life you have many choices. One of which is deciding whether or not you are going to succeed or fail in life. In other words, choosing to stay hopeful or not. In the “Absolute True Diary of a Part- Time Indian” Junior goes through many situations where hope is needed. The author Sherman Alexie puts Junior as well as other characters in situations to make those hard decisions.
Junior is a young American Indian who had grown up on a reservation in the western United States. As he grew older, he realized that living on the reservation would lead him nowhere. His only chance of hope at a better life is to leave “the Rez”. Sherman Alexie perfectly captures the culture of an American Indian in his novel, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, by introducing white culture by sending Junior to Reardan High School. Junior’s experience in Reardan allows him to draw conclusions about his own culture and Alexie has surely done research on American Indian culture.
Argument for Banning “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” Book in Middle Schools Published in 2007, “The Absolutely True Diary of Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie says about the moving story of a Native American teenager named Arnold Spirit who made the bold decision to attend an all-white high school from Spokane reservation to find hope for the future in the Reardan. This volume won the National Book Award in 2007 and won several other awards. Even though this novel can be power of education, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” paperback should be banned because this is not appropriate for middle schools.
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.
When looking in the face of a challenge, having a little success on the side of that could help you continue facing that challenge and gain confidence. Sherman Alexie’s book “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian” explains a lot of ‘Real-World' problems in a mature perspective. Taking Arnold, and putting him through events that happen to people in that ‘real-world’. In The Absolutely True Diary of a accomplishments Indian, Sherman Alexie uses three significant events in junior's life to illustrate the ability to believe in yourself, or the fact that small successes can lead to confidence.
In his book the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie portrays a teenage boy, Arnold Spirit (junior) living in white man’s world, and he must struggle to overcome racism and stereotypes if he must achieve his dreams. In the book, Junior faces a myriad of misfortunes at his former school in ‘the rez’ (reservation), which occurs as he struggles to escape from racial and stereotypical expectations about Indians. For Junior he must weigh between accepting what is expected of him as an Indian or fight against those forces and proof his peers and teachers wrong. Therefore, from the time Junior is in school at reservation up to the time he decides to attend a neighboring school in Rearden, we see a teenager who is facing tough consequences for attempting to go against the racial stereotypes.
Risks are taken when there is a low chance of success and hope can either help or tear one apart. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Junior, the main character, thinks that it is best for him to go to a different school off of the reservation. He decides to go to Reardan, a school full of racist, rich, and mean white kids. He wants to attend the school because it is one of the best academically and athletically in the state. Putting himself on the line is risky for Junior, but it will help him follow his hopes and dreams.
“They call me an apple because they think I’m red on the outside and white on the inside.”(132) That is what Junior said in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Although Junior did not change in appearance, he knows people from the reservation think he has changed and betrayed them. Junior’s appearance may not have changed, but his thoughts and beliefs have.
In the book, the main character named Junior makes a sacrifice of leaving his reservation to adapt to a new environment. He lives on a reservation where the majority of the people are depressed and are facing extreme poverty; there is no opportunity for success if Junior continues to live his life on his reservation. Hence, he leaves his high school and joins Reardan High School. He faces many problems because of his race; there is no one who is Indian except the mascot. He is bullied, teased, and harassed because he is different than everyone else.
In society, people judge each other with stereotypes based on their looks, religion, and their way of life. People who show compassion to others help them understand that being different is something special and nothing to hide from. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Native Americans are stereotyped as not successful and poor, but Junior determines that he is special and worth knowing, unlike other Native Americans. Without the courage from Mr.P, Junior would end up like his sister, Mary, doing nothing in life but staying in the basement all day. Junior’s parents support his decision with transferring schools, but Rowdy, his best friend, believes he is making the wrong choice by leaving the rez, so he turns
Like Collective Continuance, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian taps into communal and cultural reconciliation, but also looks into the personal side of reconciliation. Junior was faced with many hardships, growing up on a Spokane Indian reservation, hydrocephalus, and poverty to name a few. Poverty had a significant impact on Junior and his desire to leave the reservation and go to an all-white high school. Going to an all-white high school would give him a lot more opportunities than staying on the reservation, as "Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor. "
The power of human friendship In Sherman Alexie’s novel “Diary Of A Part Time Indian” the origin, and the true meaning of friendship and what it’s worth is explored through the eyes of a young teen living on a reservation in Spokane WA. The teen, Arnold Jr. is experiencing the first hand effects of poverty and loss and this helps him see who is really considered a true friend and who is not. Yet he gains many life long lessons and experiences through his struggles. Such as the thought that, friendships are quite possibly one of the most important things a human can have.
Overcoming a challenge, not giving up, and not being afraid of change are a few themes demonstrated in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Perhaps the most prominent theme derived from the novel is defying the odds, or in other words rising above the expectations of others. Junior Spirit exemplifies this theme throughout the entirety of the book. As Junior is an Indian, he almost expects that he will never leave the reservation, become an alcoholic, and live in poverty like the other Indians on the reservation—only if he sits around and does not endeavor to change his fate. When Junior shares the backstory of his parents, he says that his mother and father came from “poor people who came from poor people who came from poor people, all the way back to the very first poor people” (11).
The adjective part-time in the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian is useful in alluding to the double life standards led by the protagonist. The novel presents the reader with a lovable 14-year old narrator called Arnold Spirit, Jr. a native character living on an Indian Reservation in Wellpinit. Arnold tired of living on the reservation where other students pick on him constantly, decides to switch schools. That is where I think the troubles and woes of the narrator start from, and he begins to live a somewhat a part-time life. Arnold’s new school is white-dominated and 22 miles away from the Indian Reservation where he lived.
