Imagine having to make the biggest choice of your life, at the age of 14. Sherman Alexie’s book, The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian, tells the story of a boy who betrays other Indians and chooses to go to an all white school, called Reardan, not knowing if his decision will kill him or make him stronger as a human being. In writing The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian, Alexie wants to teach the readers that if you do not attempt, you will not attain. Junior deciding to fight
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Arnold’s Determination Arnold is a boy born with many brain problems, despite his brain problems he turns out to be one of the most determined people in his community. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian is a book by Serman Alexie about a boy named Arnold and his life. Arnold grows up with two undependable parents, and his dad was an alcoholic while his mother was an alcoholic. He grows up having a hard life because of his brain damage, so if he gets hit in the head he will suffer severe
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Anyone and everyone can make friends. Some you may not of even thought of happening. In the book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, there are many friendships. Some you know already know of but some come out of the strangest circumstances. There are many themes present in the book, one particular theme that is present throughout the story is friendships can come out of the strangest circumstances. In the story Junior makes multiple friends in the strangest circumstances.These
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14, 2015 Yujie Chen Poverty influences Poverty is one of the main problem in the world, either developed country or developing country. Poverty both influence developed country, America and developing country, Mexico. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian and The Devil’s Highway, they both facing the poverty issue. Sherman Alexie is telling us about the Indian American living in a hard life and Luis Alberto Urrea is telling us about the poor Mexican people migrating to United States
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Throughout the story Junior faces many hardships from beginning to end. However, his personality allows Junior to fight through these hardships. Junior lives on a Native American Reservation is subjected to poor education and intimidation from the other children on the reservation for his disabilities. Nevertheless Junior acquires the chance to pursue a life beyond the reservation when he throws a book at his geometry teacher. As a result, Junior is moved to Rearden High School where he is the only
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Should the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian be taught? The book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian should be taught at Douglas High School. It has a lot of good life lessons in it for people to learn. It has many themes that are relevant in today’s society such as, loss, addiction, alcoholism, hope, and many more. The book may have many inappropriate things in it, but it’s still worth taking a lesson from it. If taught at a high school, those inappropriate things might actually
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Submit your text hIn the book, An Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie it talks about a young boy named Junior who lives on the Spokane Reservation. On the reservation, the only thing Indians do is drink and try to forget about the dreams they never achieved. Junior believes that he shares the same fate as everyone else. But Junior decides that he wants to succeed in life, he wants to go beyond staying at the reservation in his parents' home to be left alone with only two
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Arnold is the misfit Native American teenager outcast that just wants to find his place in the world. In the novel, the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian written by Sherman Alexie, Arnold discovers his true self by trekking his way through a series of challenging events. He breaks stereotypes by coming to realize the struggles of an alcoholic, addictive lifestyle and in the process, finds himself. There are three hundred and thirty six reservations in America. One of the biggest difficulties
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Reservation and he wanted the luxury that most people had. Arnold wanted a better life for himself because of the deaths of people around him, he was going to live in a world that might not be at his favor to achieve his goal. In the Absolute True Diary of a Part-time Indian, Sherman Alexie explains how Arnold wanted to explore the world and move around more, he decides to transfer to Reardan High School and leave Wellpinit High School, because of his actions, he resembled the traits of a Nomadic
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In the book The Absolutley True Diary of a Part-Time Indian it’s very common on Junior’s reservation for people to give up on their dreams. But it seems like Junior is a exception to that trend. It seems like he will succeed and in the book you can see examples of qualities that Junior has that will correlate into success in his life. Some of the internal qualities Junior has that will help him in his road to success are he is true to himself, he is truthful, and he lives his dreams. Junior
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