Imagine you're leaving the place you’ve lived your whole life to enter a new and completely different environment. In Sherman Alexie’s book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and the movie Smoke Signals also by Sherman Alexie, the main characters experience a very different world from the reservation they grew up on. Both stories explore life on the rez and life outside of the United States through the characters and the plots that have several similarities and differences. In both the book and the movie, the main characters are dreamers. Both Junior and Thomas use their creativity to describe their lives. Junior and Thomas faced stereotypical viewpoints. Both stories' main characters love basketball and they always go out to play. Both stories have deaths of important family members, some died in fires while others for different reasons. Therefore, this is how these stories are similar. …show more content…
Junior likes to draw cartoons to pass the time and relax. Thomas likes to tell stories when he talks to people. In both stories, the main characters get into a fight with each other. Junior and Thomas are both nerdy, smart, and skinny with glasses. In both, one or two of the main characters leave the rez to accomplish a task. For these reasons, they are alike. The book and movie have many differences. The two main characters in the book are high school freshman teenagers. On the other hand, the movie characters are young adults. Rowdy’s father is alive while Victor’s dad left when Victor was young and died years later. The two stories have completely different plots and have different events. In the movie, the main characters go to get Victor's father's ashes from Arizona. In the book, Thomas leaves the rez to go to a better school. Thomas and Junior have different reactions to racism. Both stories have differences in many ways from plot to