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

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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. Junior finds a strength inside of himself that he never knew existed to defeat his old friend Rowdy in a basketball game. Junior girlfriend is Penelope a girl that has big dreams to travel the world and Gordy is junior's friend he is a nerd and a bookworm. …show more content…

For example, “Seriously, I know my mother and father had their dreams when they were kids. They dreamed of being something other than poor, but they never got the chance to be anything because nobody paid attention to their dreams.” (p.48) This show Junior’s mom and dad had a lot of talents and dreams, the problem is that they were never given the chance to make those dreams come true. According to the text, “My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. That is the absolute saddest thing in the world.”(p.57) This show Junior knows that his school cannot buy new books this destroy his hopes and

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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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