Summary Of The Novel 'The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian'
Guadalupe Lopez
Professor Brett Bisceglia
English 99
18 September 2014
Word Count: 1011
A Part-Time Indian: His Success As an Indian from a reservation, Junior faces a lot of racism, poverty, being surrounded by alcoholics and physical abuse. Junior also faces loss and bullying. As a result, a lot of events happen in his life which are both internal and external. Junior has different ways to cope internally. He uses jokes and his drawing and stories to help him get by. Meanwhile, externally, his family and friends help him along the way. In the two hundred and thirty pages of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Alexie helps us experience different way to deal with things and how family and friends can …show more content…
His success would never have happened without these things and would’ve taken a whole other course. Jumior proves everyone wrong about him in only two hundred thirty pages, he showed everyone what he’s really worth. When he won the basketball game with Reardan against Wellpinit, Coach thought they weren’t going to in but he believed in Junior and Junior started to believe in himself and that helped Reardan win the game. In this novel, the readers can experience the feeling Junior feels and can understand what he’s going through. It can make you laugh and cry. Being an Indian is very hard, your family may be alcoholics or abusive or both. Sometimes it can cause bullying and racism. Junior tells his readers everything in perspective with a sense of humor and through his drawing. Junior’s life wasn’t always a bunch of rainbows, unicorns, and puppies. His life, according to him, was a fight. He had to fight back when he got physically abused, when he first transferred to Reardan, and when he joined the basketball team. Junior also tells us he’s been to forty two funerals in the fourteen years that he has been alive. Junior has had a very tough life and as a reader, you can be surprised how much he can overcome with his way of
Professor Brett Bisceglia
English 99
18 September 2014
Word Count: 1011
A Part-Time Indian: His Success As an Indian from a reservation, Junior faces a lot of racism, poverty, being surrounded by alcoholics and physical abuse. Junior also faces loss and bullying. As a result, a lot of events happen in his life which are both internal and external. Junior has different ways to cope internally. He uses jokes and his drawing and stories to help him get by. Meanwhile, externally, his family and friends help him along the way. In the two hundred and thirty pages of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Alexie helps us experience different way to deal with things and how family and friends can …show more content…
His success would never have happened without these things and would’ve taken a whole other course. Jumior proves everyone wrong about him in only two hundred thirty pages, he showed everyone what he’s really worth. When he won the basketball game with Reardan against Wellpinit, Coach thought they weren’t going to in but he believed in Junior and Junior started to believe in himself and that helped Reardan win the game. In this novel, the readers can experience the feeling Junior feels and can understand what he’s going through. It can make you laugh and cry. Being an Indian is very hard, your family may be alcoholics or abusive or both. Sometimes it can cause bullying and racism. Junior tells his readers everything in perspective with a sense of humor and through his drawing. Junior’s life wasn’t always a bunch of rainbows, unicorns, and puppies. His life, according to him, was a fight. He had to fight back when he got physically abused, when he first transferred to Reardan, and when he joined the basketball team. Junior also tells us he’s been to forty two funerals in the fourteen years that he has been alive. Junior has had a very tough life and as a reader, you can be surprised how much he can overcome with his way of