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Diary Of A Part-Time Indian

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Junior has an amazingly tough life as a kid on the Spokane reservation. Junior is the main character in the book The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian. Junior’s parents are always drunk and his best friend Rowdy is his only friend for most of the book. Junior has to make the extremely tough decision of choosing between the high school on the reservation or the white high school outside of the reservation. When he chooses to go to the white school outside the reservation the people on the reservation think that he betrayed them and their culture. This essay is about three different maxims. A maxim is a short basic truth about life. They are usually great sayings, for example, Ben Franklin is the author of many maxims including …show more content…

He says this during the intense rivalry between his old school, Wellpinit, and his new school, Reardan High School.When Junior says this he means that one event in your life can change the way you are going to live forever. For example, when Junior decides to do something with his life and go to Reardan High School, he changes the path of his education for the better. If Junior stayed on the reservation he was going to go to a bad school and not get a good education. Going your own way can pay off in the long term.

Choosing a high school to go to is a very big decision we all have to make at one point. Going to a high school is a decision that will change your life forever. Making the choice of going to one school that you think is a good fit for you could change a lot of things in your life. Your friends could introduce new things to you and some of these things could be bad or good, you never know. It could determine what college you go to and what job you get. It can alter who you are as a person and who you will be. One decision can transform you as a person and what you will be when you grow

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