discriminated by many for abusing alcohol, so people don’t believe they can achieve anything. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie, is a young adult book about a boy named Junior who decides to leave the reservation to attend an all white school to better his education. This book has been challenged quite frequently, but it has not been banned as often. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian should not be banned because Junior shows humor, determination, and criticism from
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In the book The Absolutely True diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, the main character Junior faces many hardships. However, Junior’s personality allows him to fight through these hardships. Junior lives on a Native American Reservation where he encounters poor education and intimidation from the other children because of his disabilities. Nevertheless, Junior grasps the chance to pursue a life beyond the reservation when he throws a book at his geometry teacher, resulting in Junior to
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How can somebody persevere through racism, poverty, and death? What if they're only fourteen years old? Is the struggle even worth it? In the semi-autobiographical novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, the main character, Junior, learns that through perseverance, hope, and the gain of new knowledge, life can get better for anybody (white or otherwise). He overcomes a major school change, abandonment of friends, and the death of family members, but in the bittersweet
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"I was born with water on the brain." Have you ever heard of Hydrocephalus? . I'm going to be reviewing a book by Sherman Alexie called “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”. The sidesplitting narrator of The Absolutely True Diary is a fourteen-year-old Native kid named Arnold Spirit, Jr., and Arnold is funny, sensitive, and a budding artist. Arnold, though, is not only a teenage Indian going through the entire usual coming of age stuff. Arnold is also a hydrocephalic with a stutter and
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Hamad Yousef Professor: Joanne Martin English 113B 1 Apr 2015 Identity Crisis and Resolution in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time India 1. Arnold faces double conflict-- one that is in his head, which is man vs him self-conflict and the other with the outside world in which he has to set his identity and preserve his self-esteem. The inner conflict is how he could make a name and gets wealth that he recognizes are associated with wealth and popularity. However, this starts with the realization
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At the beginning of the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, Junior goes to a poor school in Wellpinit. In Wellpinit, he is bullied, and has only one real friend, and he doesn’t want to lose that friend, but deciding that he needs a better education, he chooses to go to a nicer school in a nearby town called Reardan. In his time at Reardan, Junior changes in many ways, because of his fight with Roger, his basketball game against Reardon, and when he admits to his friends at Reardan
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Let out people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.” (Alexie 129) This is junior figuring out that even though people aren’t always what you think they are gonna be. Another theme I found in The Absolutely pats True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is to accept
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Great decisions come with great thought and time. In Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, Junior had a dilemma that would ultimately affect his life. Although, the pressure was building up Junior made the right decision to leave the Rez and attend Reardan because of the environment and the opportunity to grow and prosper. There was a greater opportunity for growth in Reardan mostly because of their white middle-class population.According to the National Survey on Drug
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The Absolutely True Diary of Part-Time Indian: a Journey of Hope “There is another world, but it is in this one” (W.B Yeats), this is how Sherman Alexie managed to begin the journey of his eye-opening novel, The Absolutely True Dairy of Part-time Indian. It is a magnificent story of overcoming the obstacles of being an Indian teenager while stepping outside of the reservation world and striving for better opportunities in the world. Junior, who carries the Native American blood in his roots, gives
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Racial Discrimination in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian In our world, many of us have either experienced or witnessed the harmful acts of racial discrimination. This includes the use of racial slurs, and slavery. Today, people are more accepting of all faiths and backgrounds. This is one theme that is explored in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. The protagonist in this novel is a 14-year-old boy named Junior. He is a member of the Spokane Indian Tribe. Throughout
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