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

In the article American Indian Movement It explains how the government promised many things including good jobs, housing, and vocational training for those who would move. The author then says “As a result, thousands of Native Americans migrated to the cities. But many of them never received the promised funding and benefits”(“American”). The book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie is about a boy named Junior who is an Indian that lives on a reservation. The book goes through the struggles Junior has on the reservation with his best friend Rowdy when Junior moves schools and the struggles Junior has with his family. Junior’s life as a Native American on a reservation is different from a non-native American's life

There are a lot of people that suffer with addiction in the Reservation that Junior lives in. Junior’s dads friend Eugene was an alcoholic and was fighting with his friend Bobby. Eugene and Bobby were both drunk, fighting over the last sip of wine outside of a 7-Eleven when Eugene was shot by Bobby killing Eugene. Bobby would later kill himself well in jail. Junior Says, “Way drunk, Eugene was shot and killed by one of his good friends Bobby, who was too drunk to even remember pulling the trigger… When Bobby was sober enough to realize what he’d done he could only call Eugene’s name” (Alexie 169-171). This connects to the topic sentence because this is not something that would normally happen in a non-native American’s life but addiction is more common on reservations which makes stuff like this more

Junior’s family and a lot of other people in the Reservation do not have a lot of money and are very poor. When Junior went to dinner with Penolope and Roger at Denny's, Junior had not told them that he had no money and would not be able to pay for the food so Junior pukes in the bathroom over the guilt. Roger finds Junior and offers to pay for the food and later Junior tells Penelope that he is poor. Junior says, “Most nights, I walk home. I hitchhike. Somebody usually picks me up. I've only had to walk the whole way a few times. She started to cry” (Alexie 129). This shows that Native Americans lives on reservations and non-native American’s lives are different because it shows that Penelope and Roger are not used to seeing poor people as there are more poor people in the reservations. It also shows how Penolope reacts with sadness after hearing about what Junior has to do to get