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.
His mother and father’s dreams were just fantasies played in the hands of poverty. If his mother and father couldn’t achieve their dreams, Junior himself can’t reach success if destitution is dragging him down. To illustrate this point, “And it's not like my mother and father were born into wealth. It's not like they gambled away their family fortunes. My parents came from poor people who came from poor people who came from poor people, all the way back to the very first poor people,” (Alexie 11).
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.
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.
Hello Sherman Alexie, I just finished reading your book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, and I am overwhelmed with a lot of different emotions and thoughts. The writing as well as the illustrations in this book made it a very engaging and memorable read. I loved the character of Arnold and how he intuitive he was about himself and those around him. In the book Arnold seems like he will also fall into the cycle of poverty and alcoholism in the book.
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.
In the novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part - Time Indian, a young Native American teenager named Arnold Spirit changes the minds of himself and people around him as he transcends Native American racial stereotypes. Throughout the story, Arnold influences the world around him by proving that Native Americans can find hope and succeed in a community dominated by Caucasian Americans. In the beginning of the novel, Arnold begins to see the restrictions of being a Native American on a Washington State reservation, because of this Arnold finds himself fighting the doubts and changing the minds of himself and the people around him as he pushes himself further away from a life on the reservation. Arnold begins to feel the restrictions of
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian had the prejudice of Native American Indians by putting
The power of human friendship In Sherman Alexie’s novel “Diary Of A Part Time Indian” the origin, and the true meaning of friendship and what it’s worth is explored through the eyes of a young teen living on a reservation in Spokane WA. The teen, Arnold Jr. is experiencing the first hand effects of poverty and loss and this helps him see who is really considered a true friend and who is not. Yet he gains many life long lessons and experiences through his struggles. Such as the thought that, friendships are quite possibly one of the most important things a human can have.
Friendship is a necessity in life. Without friendship, people would feel lonely and would not have that backbone to lean on in life. The novel called,The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Is a story that explains the life and friendship of two middle school age boys. Junior is an Indian boy that lives on a reservation. Then there’s Rowdy, an indian kid that is Junior's best friend.l.
He knows that if his parents were not born into poverty, his mother would have gone to college, and his father would have become a musician. Additionally, on page eleven Junior says that his parents “dreamed about being something other than poor, but they never got the chance to be anything because nobody paid attention to their dreams.” Junior believes that he is trapped in this “circle” of poverty, and his dreams will be ignored just as his parents’ dreams had been. However, after Junior launches an old geometry book across a classroom, and it hits his teacher, Mr. P, in the face, Mr. P realizes something substantial about Junior: He has fought since his birth, beginning with the
In the novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian” the main theme is poverty. The source is related to poverty because the narrator (Junior) is sensing a great deal of agony as if he has lost his culture, language, tradition, and basic identifiable aspects that make up the person that Junior is. He believes that because of his beliefs, he can not have the same rights that every other “white” has. It impacts his identity because he can not be a part of the environment he is living in and he feels that he is “stupid and ugly” just because he and his Indian perspectives are not the same as the “whites”. He is facing a loss of hope and feels that “you have to act white to make your life better”.
