In the scene where Mr. P. is talking to junior we know that he places an influence for junior to leave the reservation otherwise he wouldn’t have done it. Mr. P mentions “The only thing kids are being taught is how to give up” (pg. 35), and then continues to say “You threw that book in face because somewhere inside you refuses to give up” (pg. 36). In other words, Mr. P
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.
Sometimes when you think someone has given up all hope, they might just surprise you and run; run towards their dreams and use the last glimmer of hope they had left. They surprise you with their sudden barrage of inspiration. Mary Spirit from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie is a prime example of sudden inspiration and spontaneity however, at first this side of Mary is certainly hidden. When I was first introduced to Mary I felt that she had an intimidating and frigid attitude. Arnold states “After high school, my sister just froze.
In the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie, Junior Adams’s expansion of his own reality has made him aware of other things and has allowed him to find joy in unlikely experiences from those he’s known. From the title onwards, Junior makes it very clear that he himself is a Native American. He indicates how he has spent his entire life on the reservation. He lives on in northwestern Washington, and he mentions how he has never been far from it; he has only been to Spokane. When reminiscing about where he could be, he mentions how “I wish I were magical, but I am really just a poor-ass reservation kid living with his poor-ass family on the poor-ass Spokane Indian Reservation” (Alexie 7).
Have you ever lost someone you loved or was important in your life? Well Junior has, he has lost many people in his life. He has gone to a total of 42 funerals in his lifetime and he is only 14. You will find out more about Junior in the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Most of the people Junior has lost were due to alcohol.
As Mr. P is explaining to Junior about how he needs to leave the reservation in order to escape the insidious addict filled, depressed world that he lives in finally concludes with, "'Son,' Mr. P said. ' You're going to find more and more hope the farther and farther you walk away from this sad, sad, sad reservation'" (Alexie 43). This conversation indicates the reservation and the community as a whole has chosen to give up, instead of finding hope for their life, and just turns to alcohol for all their issues. Mr. P acknowledges this which is why he warns Junior that in order to ever make anything of his life he must leave the hopeless reservation. After Junior accepts his father's apology for using all their remaining money on alcohol, running away to get drunk, and leaving no money left for Christmas, Junior adds, "But it wasn't okay.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian is a novel by Sherman Alexie. The novel is about a kid named Junior. He is a Native American that resides in an Indian Reservation; It is also known as the rez. He isn’t happy with his life on the rez (no hope and being poor), so he decides it’s time for a change. Junior decides that he wants to transfer to a school called Reardan.
The Merriam-Webster defines the word culture as, “…the characteristic features of everyday existence (such as diversions or a way of life) shared by people in a place or time.” This definition can be used to explain the reason in “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie, why Junior will never escape reservation life. Those who live in his Reservation will also never succeed in escaping reservation life because there is nothing to escape from. Juniors perceived success at leaving the reservation at the end of the novel isn’t there to make it seem like he wants to escape, it’s there to show that he has come to terms with his life, and no longer uses the reservation as an excuse for why his life isn’t what he wishes it was. It is this internal acceptance of who he is, where he comes from, and everything that
At some point in our lives, we all experience some type of trauma. Research shows that certain groups of people are more likely to endure trauma and that may lead to substance use for certain people. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, the main character, Junior, is a 14 year old boy going into high school who experiences a lot of grief and is exposed to many people using and abusing substances and having addictions. Junior is a Native American (he calls himself an Indian) who was born and raised on a reservation named Spokane in Washington State. Junior lives in poverty and because of this, his father drinks, and not only does Junior’s father drink, everyone on the reservation drinks or has an addiction to some sort of
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.
“In the middle of a crazy drunk life, you have to hang on the good and sober moments tightly.” (The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie page 216) This is a quote from the book that shows how Junior learns how to appreciate the good moments in life. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie the character Junior faces problems caused by drinking. The book starts off with his family living on the Indian reservation suffering from poverty and death.
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
P’s advice and Junior’s experiences to to convey the theme that perseverance and hope can lead to great things. For example when Mr. P’s gives Junior advice regarding how to succeed in life, he says, “you kept your hope. And now, you have to go somewhere where other people have hope...away from this sad, sad, sad reservation”(Alexie 43). This evidence implies that, Mr. P’s advises Junior to keep up the hope but he know’s that Junior will give up and lose hope, being in the reservation. As a whole, he exclaim that Junior must go away from this reservation; to somewhere that has hope.
Isabella Haddad Mr. Rodriguez Academic Lit. 21 April 2023 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Analytical Essay There are many different instances when one wants to give up, but they keep pushing for the benefit of themselves. The YA novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, written by Sherman Alexie and illustrated by Ellen Forney, takes place on the Spokane Indian Reservation.
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