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Title On reservations, almost 15 of Native American adults experience mental health while going through their day-to-day lives (NAMI). What can they do to have a better lifestyle with more benefits? Many, as a result of their mental health, drink alcohol. Native Americans on Junior’s reservation drink day by day and are addicts, such as his parents. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a novel written by Sherman Alexie. Junior is the main character in this novel. He was born with too much spinal fluid on the inside of his brain (Alexie 1), which makes him look different than others. His looks very much affect him on the reservation. Junior’s parents like to spend their money and go to the casino, not leaving much for the family …show more content…

The new school gives Junior a bunch of new opportunities, he ends up making new friends and meets a girl. Junior deals with noticeable struggles throughout the book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, that includes depression, low self-esteem, and bullying; he builds resilience to these struggles through his drawings, words, and actions. Junior’s mental health started at a young age. He would get bullied by kids and adults on the reservation. Junior has Rowdy, his best friend who helps him through the bullying that he goes through. Rowdy and Junior have been friends for almost their entire lives. At the beginning of the book, Rowdy and Junior went to a powwow. Junior didn't even want to go to the powwow because he was scared someone was going to pick on him, but he went regardless, to make Rowdy happy. Junior ended up getting bullied and beat up by three older men (Alexie 2021). The boys made fun of Junior for his brain disorder and called him names. Rowdy was angry that they beat up Junior, so he decided to get payback. He cut their braids and shaved their eyebrows (Alexie, 22). Junior seemed enlightened that Rowdy stuck up for him since he can’t on his

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Junior is empathetic to not only Rowdy but also Penelope. Junior opens up to Penelope about his dreams and develops a liking for her this is very empathetic and proves that Junior doesn't follow Katz' rule that empathy is for nerds. Another example of Junior being empathetic is the fact he says that he misses Rowdy a lot when they part ways. His longing for Rowdy shows he doesn't conform to the Code of Conduct set up by

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Throughout the novel the reader can see that Junior and Rowdy’s friendship slowly grows apart, which is what causes tensions between the two during the game. When the coach tells Junior he is guarding Rowdy that night, he says, “ I don’t think I can do this,”(188) which shows Junior’s lack of self-confidence. He starts the game and as Rowdy steals the ball, Junior chases after him. Junior says to the reader his calculations of what he needs to do in order to stop Rowdy. “I couldn’t foul him.

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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).

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Stepping into a new environment always takes adjustment, but with adjustment comes a fresh start. In the book, The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian, written by Axle Sherman, the main character, Junior, decides he wants to do what no other Indian on the reservoir has ever done before: Break the chain and find hope. Junior is the typical fourteen year old boy, and he shows it through his appearance, personality, and his beliefs. Although Junior is not much of a chick scorer, he has a hard time fitting in as well.

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Introduction The true diary of a part time Indian is a novel for young adults written by Sherman Alexie and illustrated by Ellen Forney, it was published in 2007 and has won several literature awards. The book tells a story of Arnold who is a hydrocephalic, a physical impairment that makes him to be picked on and bullied and which makes him vulnerable to seizures. One of the main struggles that Arnold faces in this novel is between his part-time Indian WellPoint self (Junior) and his half-white Reardan self (Arnold). On the reservation he is intimidated and picked on, while at Reardan he receives respect and chooses to be somebody.

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Whether he is with friends or Penelope, or with his family, he acts very different, depending on who they are. Junior says “ [hus] mother and father are the twin suns around which [he] orbit, and [his] world would EXPLODE without them.” To Junior, he views his parents as people who he can’t live without. His relationship with friends

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Ups and down of friendships Friendships differ from one another. Some never end, lasting eternal and others close during childhood or adulthood, ending a chapter. In the novel of Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian observes the life of a teenage boy named Arnold J Sprite, known as Junior. Junior is a Native American who has been through alcohol abuse, poverty and stereotypes. Yet instead of surrendering, the friendship between two childhood friends kept him going.

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Towards the end of the chapter Junior is having a deep conversation with Mr. P about Rowdy. He’s lost hope and he’s just going to get worse. He goes on after continuously telling Junior to leave the rez, he then says “ "All these kids have given up," he said. "All your friends. All the bullies.

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Lyric Sinan Sinanian Mr. Rodriguez Academic Literacy 21 April 2023 The Issue of Poverty The damaging consequences of poverty are a big issue in America, and have raised in severity over the years. In the realistic fiction novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, the life of a poor Native American exhibits the terrors of poverty and how it can affect families within the poor communities in the country. The economically unfortunate have seen the worse come over them and their family.

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Alyssa Hansraj Mr. Rodriguez Academic Literature 21 April 2023 Individual vs. Community in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian It is said that it takes a village to raise a child. In the young adult fiction novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie brings a new perspective to this saying by following the story of 14-year-old Junior who had lived on the Spokane Indian Reservation.

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Junior loses a lot of friends and family at the young age of fourteen. He gets bullied because he was born with too much cerebral spinal fluid inside his skull, but he has his best friend Rowdy there to help him. Junior realizes that he needs to leave the reservation to get a better life for himself. He goes to a new school off the

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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

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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. "

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Junior is a teenage boy who is different from everyone else on the reservation. He has big goals, but he is an outcast so nobody pays attention to him. When he moves and plays his first game against his old school, everyone thinks he is a traitor and “boos” him. He feels more accepted at Reardan than his home school.

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In Sherman Alexie’s, “The Absolutely Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, Alexie shares the story of a teenage Native American boy named Junior who lives on the rez and desires to have a better education. But for this, he must attend a white school 22 miles from the rez. Despite having various forms of oppression both living on the rez and going to Reardan High School, Alexie shows Junior’s budding future through the use of literary devices and Junior’s

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