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

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Summative

“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” – Winston Churchill. Hope is a crucial aspect of our lives. It is needed to get us through dark times and allows us to dream for the better. In the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, he expresses that hope is an extremely important theme and without hope, Junior would’ve ended up still stuck on the reservation, and it would not have motivated him to work towards a better future. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Alexie’s purpose of the importance of having hope is recurring through Junior’s

This shows that even though he struggles with going to the school, he is insistent on going to Reardan instead of the school on the reservation. Alexie relates to some readers, who are forced to walk miles just to go to school from their houses because they cannot afford a car or a bus ride to the school. Junior appeals to pathos depicting that he doesn't have a reliable ride every day due to his parents not having enough gas money, the car breaking down, or his parents being hungover or can't because they are working which makes the reader pity him. Additionally, Junior begins to get hope because he wants to better his education outside of the reservation. After Junior speaks with Mr.P about hope, he says that he “wants to go to Reardan,” I said again. I couldn't believe I was saying it. For me, it seemed as real as saying, “I want to fly to the moon… No if I don’t go now, I never will. I have to do it now.”(Alexie 46). Alexie uses imagery through Junior to compare him going to Reardan to going to the moon. Alexie appeals to pathos through Junior’s narration by explaining that even though he believes it's unrealistic he still

Junior believes that it was pointless for Native Americans to dream because they would never accomplish them, but Alexie uses irony to show that junior breaks most of the stereotypes he lists. When Junior talks about his dreams he says “we Indians don't get to realize our dreams. We don't get those chances. Or choices. We're just poor. That's all we are.” (Alexie 13). Alexie uses irony to contradict what Junior says at the beginning of the book. Junior at the beginning of the story says that native Americans living on the reservation can dream and will always stay poor and live on the reservation. Still, then junior realizes that if you put your mind to anything it can be accomplished, an example is when he dreamed of dating Penelope, he started talking to her and started to date her, along with dreaming of going off the reservation, it came true because he goes to a school outside of the reservation. This shows that it is important to stay hopeful and junior manages to break multiple stereotypes that are associated with native Americans. Additionally, Rowdy aids Junior when breaking stereotypes of Native Americans being inferior people. When Reardan is first mentioned Junior says that “Reardan beat us 72-5 and 86-50, our only two losses of the season. “ (Alexie 50). Alexie shows that Junior and Rowdy both have a lack of confidence and believed that Native Americans were much