In life you have many choices. One of which is deciding whether or not you are going to succeed or fail in life. In other words, choosing to stay hopeful or not. In the “Absolute True Diary of a Part- Time Indian” Junior goes through many situations where hope is needed. The author Sherman Alexie puts Junior as well as other characters in situations to make those hard decisions.
He was three-years-old when he taught himself how to read. Even Though Alexie was reading at the age of three he wasn’t considered a prodigy because he was Indian. His dad would buy a bunch of books and since he loved his dad he decided to love books as well. He first learned how to read with a Superman comic. Throughout the essay Sherman Alexie uses an extended metaphor to describe the connection he has with Superman.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, written by Sherman Alexie, is a semi-biographical book about an Indian boy named Arnold. Arnold lives on an Indian reservation but, he attends school off the reservation in a town where the population is majority white people. Throughout the entire book you can see how Arnold internal struggles and the struggles he was with “white power”. An example would be the title of the book, the “Part-Time Indian “part especially stand outs because, it helps illustrate Arnold struggles with his personal life and with “white power”. The title illustrates with by helping express Arnolds struggles to fit in, his home life, and finding himself.
he boston massacre was a large turning point in history for the American revolution, and sparked the beginning of the revolution. The boston massacre began on the evening of March 5th 1770, when a group of colonists gathered by a lone british soldier outside the Boston custom house located, on Kings street in Boston, and began a small street brawl. This small fight quickly escalated into something much larger and deadlier. The fight began as tensions were high between the British and the Americans, because many soldiers were put in place throughout Boston to enforce the hated tax laws. Angry colonists started physically and verbally assaulting soldiers using weapons such as bats, sticks, snowballs, and more to harm the soldiers on duty.
As bullying becomes worse and many people don’t take it seriously, I believe more people need to understand how bad bullying is for someone. Bullying can take a toll on someone. Bullying can also have a long-term effect on a person’s health. As in the novel, The Absolute True Diary As A Part-Time Indian, bullying is a main focus in literature just like in real life. The novel shows interactions between a kid named Junior and how he deals with bullying as a Native American.
The Path to Identity People often say they know who they are when they really don’t. Some people just don’t care, but the ones that do, the ones that are willing to go the extra mile to find out, those are the people that will be successful in life. To find out who you really are, you need to be persistent because life will throw everything it has at you to keep you from being successful but you need to be willing to go the extra mile to make it. In the book Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Alexie Sherman Arnold perseveres through numerous hardships on his path to identity.
The novel Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, By Sherman Alexie it show how Indians or African Americans struggle with who they are and who they want to be. Arnold learns how to live through and with his struggles because of how his friends accepted and helped him. In this book Alexie shows how all of Arnold’s friends helped him through different aspects in life. If he didn’t have those friends than his life would have been so much harder.
In the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Rowdy is characterized as being strong, protective, and having a bad temper. Junior and Rowdy have been best friends since they were born. Rowdy grew up in a family with history of abuse, so he is more likely to act out when something does not go his way. Junior describes him as, “The toughest kid on the rez. He is long and lean and strong like a snake” (15).
Sherman Alexie wrote The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian to convey a mood by making its readers feel the anger and sadness that others who experience stereotypes feel and how that eventually results in implicit bias and prejudice. One harmful reality for Native Americans is implicit bias that has resulted from stereotypes. Implicit bias is a type of bias that influences judgments, how you act, and decisions even if it happens unknowingly(NIH). In chapter 1, “The Black-Eye-of-the-Month Club”, Juniors dentist gave him less pain meds because he believed that Indians felt less pain. To show how he felt about this and how the dentist said it, Junior wrote”Our white dentist believed that Indians felt less pain so he gave us half the
When looking in the face of a challenge, having a little success on the side of that could help you continue facing that challenge and gain confidence. Sherman Alexie’s book “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian” explains a lot of ‘Real-World' problems in a mature perspective. Taking Arnold, and putting him through events that happen to people in that ‘real-world’. In The Absolutely True Diary of a accomplishments Indian, Sherman Alexie uses three significant events in junior's life to illustrate the ability to believe in yourself, or the fact that small successes can lead to confidence.
The Importance of Self Discovery Through Creative Mediums On Indian Reservations, less than 10% of Indians graduate college after high school (American Addiction Center). The rest of the Indians that stay on the reservation have an increased risk of obesity, suicide, cancer, strokes, diabetes, and teen pregnancy. The main cause of this is the prevalent alcoholism that suffocates many Indians. In the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Arnold Spirit Jr. uses storytelling and comics to cope with the constant alcoholism and death. Without using them as a way to cope, it’s very likely he would turn to abuse, alcoholism, and mental illness.
In the novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie there are many themes and major flaws in society that get pointed out. One major theme explored by Alexie, is standing up for your beliefs and to make things change no matter how hard that may be. The Character Junior (Also called Arnold) is a character that truly expresses this theme and is able to blossom through the ideas behind this theme. In the book Junior not only goes to a new and better school but, he also leaves the reservation and even takes on the reservation sports teams in order to follow his dreams and do what he finds right. The first way Junior is able to stand up for his ideas and change his world for the better is by moving to a new school.
Actions that people make are followed up with consequences that may not only affect them, but others around them. In the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Junior/Arnold sees this for himself. Many consequences that affected him were a direct involvement with alcohol. For example, his Dad, his Sister, and even his own Grandmother. Two of these consequences ended terribly, with death.
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” —Oscar Wilde. In the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, the main character’s older sister, Mary, only exists in the beginning and throughout the book, she has to learn how to live in the way Oscar Wilde talked about.
The adjective part-time in the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian is useful in alluding to the double life standards led by the protagonist. The novel presents the reader with a lovable 14-year old narrator called Arnold Spirit, Jr. a native character living on an Indian Reservation in Wellpinit. Arnold tired of living on the reservation where other students pick on him constantly, decides to switch schools. That is where I think the troubles and woes of the narrator start from, and he begins to live a somewhat a part-time life. Arnold’s new school is white-dominated and 22 miles away from the Indian Reservation where he lived.
