The Art of Sherman Throughout the Novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a part-time Indian” the author Sherman Alexie uses art to accentuate certain emotion and thought. The author accomplishes this through comic book art styles. The art not only stresses the story, buy completes it by being an integral source of story development throughout the novel. Along with being important to the story, the art also conveys meaning that the words on the page do not convey. This effect is very effective in getting the audience to not only understand the story, but to grasp it on a higher level. This unique novel by Sherman Alexie has many pictures that compliment or build the story, however, one of the most important pictures thus far in reading the novel