Sherman Alexie's The Absolute True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian

Sherman Alexie’s, “The Absolute True Diary of A Part- Time Indian” is composed in first person narrative through the perspective of the fourteen-year-old protagonist, Arnold Spirit Junior. Throughout the narrative structure the writer mimics the style of a personal diary as if written by Junior himself, in which Alexie uses humor, irony and colloquial language in the form of both verbal text and visual imagery. This technique allows Alexie to keep the readers engaged throughout the novel while he showcases the harsh realities of the injustice, oppression and struggle faced by the Indigenous Indian people due to social neglect by the dominant colonial Americans. The chapters in the novel are relatively short and its dialogues are modern and