Summary Of The Novel 'The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian'

The Route Of Bullying Relatively everyone gets bullied or picked on at least once in their life, but for Arnold it’s a daily struggle that he must overcome. Arnold grows up as a small kid with lots of problems as a result of severe brain damage. He lives on an Indian reservation in poverty causing people to pick on him or bully him constantly because he is an easy target. In the novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie shows us how people take advantage of each other’s weaknesses and use it to their own advantage to bully them, as shown when Arnold describes how groups of kids would spin him around and call him globe, when the Andruss brothers beat him up and when Roger told the most racist joke Arnold had ever heard. Arnold’s life has been a repeating cycle of bullying and tormenting starting from a young age, showing how bullies feel they

When Arnold took his seat on his first day at Reardan he met a girl named Penelope. Arnold told her his secondary name Junior. “She laughed and told her girlfriend at the next desk that my name was junior. They both laughed. Word spread around the room and pretty soon everybody was laughing” (59-60). This made Arnold feel completely alone and vulnerable. At lunch, When Arnold was already intimidated and isolated, a group of enourmas jocks approached him. They taunted him with their words, insults like Chief or Tonto, words Arnold had heard multiple times before. It was tolerable until the leader of the group, Roger took it to far. He uttered the most racist joke Arnold had ever heard in his life (64). The large group laughed and laughed because they knew Arnold could do nothing because he was alone a powerless against the bullies. Arnold followed up the joke by punching Roger in the face, but as the bullies walked away, they knew who really