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Summary Of The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time Indian By Sherman Alexie

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In Sherman Alexie’s story “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, Arnold has many odds stacked against him having a successful experience when transferring to Reardan high school. Despite being quite smart, he is not taken seriously when sharing his knowledge because of his race. After being humiliated by his new science teacher Mr.Dodge in class, Arnold thinks to himself, “I remember when people used to think I was smart” (Alexie p.86). Another factor that made his transfer harder was his speech impediments. Arnold suffers from a lisp and a stutter and was often bullied for them back at his old school. Now at Reardan, the bullying continues. After one of his classmates tells him he talks funny, Arnold tells the reader that “I didn’t
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In the book The Absolutely True Diaries of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie tells the story of Arnold, a boy who grows up on a reservation and changes schools to go to a school off the rez. He left the reservation to have a better chance at life. These are the similarities and differences between Arnolds life on the reservation and his life at reardan high school First there are many similarities between the rez and rearden. At both schools he was a basketball player.

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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.

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Throughout the book of the Absolutely true diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie the main character and narrator of the story gives us a variety of themes in his book, one of which is Identity. Starting from reading the title I found myself trying to predict what the book was going to be about all that came to me was a book about the story of an Indian men. The title itself gives an identity to the main character. Even from the first page of the book, in the fist sentence it shows you who this boy is. “I was born with water on the brain” he says.

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Within Chapter 5 of Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian the main focus is on Juniour realizing he has to leave to find more hope. Firstly, Juniour gets suspended for hitting Mr.P with a book unintentionally. Secondly, a week into the suspension, Mr. P comes for a visit and although what junior did wasn't very pleasant, he forgave juniour anyway. After listening to Mr. P speak about him and his sister, Juniour begins to think about his sister Mary hiding in the basement and his dad sitting alone in his room watching tv.

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Rowdy was an upstander but also a bully and a brave person in the book “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian” written by Sherman Alexie. Rowdy was the best friend of Junior , the main character of the novel. Rowdy helps Junior by protecting him. Rowdy was a good friend to Junior since the Andruss brothers who were triplets and about 30 years old hit Junior and Rowdy wasn't scared of them even if they were older than him. Rowdy did whatever he could to keep his relationship with Junior.

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Mr. P wants to give Arnold the opportunity to have the same hope the students in my school had to succeed. He wanted to find hope away from the reservation, “‘You’re going to find more and more hope the farther and farther you walk away from this sad, sad, sad reservation’” (43). The reservation kids weren’t being taught any good, “‘The only thing you kids are being taught is how to give up”’ (42). The difference between me and Arnold in this situation is we weren’t taught to give up, instead we were motivated to pursue our

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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.

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In Sherman Alexie's Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, Junior, and Rowdy, are highlighted by the unique friendship between them. Through casual conversation, repeated emotions, and dialogue between the two. Showcasing their bond and depth of friendship. They use slurs and curse words with each other, showing informality and comfort in their communication. For example, in paragraphs 7-9 "I was reading a book," "Wow, you were reading a book?"

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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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In the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie there's hope and dream occurring also everywhere in books, in the news, people's talk about it, and through people's lives. Junior is a cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation, he born with a lot of medical problems. Junior always gets picked by everyone else on the reservation but not his best friend Rowdy. Junior is determined to find hope, Junior leaves the reservation to attend Reardan an all-white school because of this act he a traitor in his reservation. Junior endures the tragedies of his Grandma and his dad's friend Eugene deaths.

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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.

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In the Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Junior lives a double life in Reardan and the Spokane Reservation. Junior goes to school in Wellpinit and lives in Spokane Reserve. Living on the Reservation brings cyclical depression, despair, and substance abuse. The role alcohol plays in Junior life on the reservation is that it causes people he cares about to be harmed, Junior feeling neglected, and loss of loved ones. Although Junior does not drink alcohol himself, the majority of the people on the reservation are alcoholics.

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“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.

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ANELISWA NALA 2015317601 ENGL1624 DUE: 28 OCTOBER 2016 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian has one mutual theme that associates all the other themes in the novel together. In the chapter titled; “Valentine Heart,” we encompass the most prominent and most cognisant theme of them all- grief. This chapter conveys the most detectable attributes of grief that functions as both an individual and collective process of dealing with loss. Argumentatively one could say that grieving has its fair share of adversities.

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