him up; he was looked down on‚ and also treated as an outsider because of this. Alexie didn’t care though because he knew that there was something other than the reservation in his future‚ and that the world was much bigger than the reservation that he lived on‚ and there was more to be gotten on the outside. He wasn’t going to let the other Indians keep him down‚ and stop him from learning. It’s awesome that when Alexie is an adult he goes back to reservations to help the children‚ because when he
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Throughout the article feature “This Is What It Means To Say Phoenix‚ Arizona.”by Shermin Alexie‚ in the beginning of the article it expounds that Victor‚ the main character’s father has died of a heart attack.Victor hasn’t seen his father in a few years and is trying to find a way to get to Phoenix‚ arizona. He calls Tribal Council but declines the funds offered. Thomas Build-the-Fire a former friend of Victor is acknowledged as an Indian‚ repetitive storyteller. Thomas stands out in the narrative
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normal after learned few people who have studied in a much more difficult environment than myself and have become successful writers. By the 1960s‚ Alexie was living with his family on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Even his family were poor‚ Alexie’s father always read and inspired to Alexie to read. There was a lot of racial discrimination‚ Alexie was expected to fail and remain uneducated. He writes‚ “A smart Indian is a dangerous person‚ widely feared and ridiculed by Indians and non-Indians
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian “It was the opposite of me. I didn’t deserve to be there. I knew it; all of those kids knew it. Indians don’t deserve shit” (Alexie 56). In the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian‚ Junior (Arnold Spirit) decides he needs to make a few changes in his life. During this journey he faces many challenges‚ self deprication‚ isolation‚ and loss. Junior continues to make friends along the way‚ and he starts finding himself. There are many
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"Rowdy Sings the Blues‚" (48-53) Rowdy yells‚ “Don’t touch me‚ you retarded fag!" at Arnold. The language is offensive. It’s hurtful‚ ignorant‚ and crude‚ but it’s not uncommon to hear young boys talk that way. Why does Rowdy use that language? In Sherman Alexie’s novel‚ The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian‚ Arnold’s best friend Rowdy calls him a “retarded fag” for transferring at the start of their freshman year of high school. Due to his background as a child‚ Rowdy uses cruel language
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background/childhood Sacagawea was daughter of a Shoshone Chief. Around the age of 12‚ she was captured by Hidatsa Indians an enemy of the Shoshones. She was sold to a French-Canadian trapper named Toussaint Charbonneau who made her one of his wives. Sacagawea and her husband lived among the Hidatsa and Mandan Indians in the upper Missouri River area (present-day North Dakota) In November 1804‚ she was pregnant with her first child. Lewis and Clark met Charbonneau (husband of Sacagawea) and quickly
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Have you ever thought life was so pointless that you just wanted to give up? In the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie‚ Junior felt exactly that way. Junior is an outcast boy who has suffered from a brain injury when he was a small boy. He feared his future because he thought he would be on the reservation forever‚ just like his parents. Junior lets his fear get in the way of the goals he wants to accomplish. But he does overcome those fears in the novel. After
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What You Pawn‚ I Will Redeem” 1. How does the narrator know the regalia is his grandmother’s? 2. Why is the story divided by time? 3. Why does Alexie continually present the issue of alcoholism among American Indians regardless of tribe? Final Submitted answers What You Pawn‚ I Will Redeem -Full Answers 1. Jackson‚ the narrator‚ notices the regalia in the window of a pawnshop and recognizes some similarities between this regalia and the one he remembers of his grandmother’s
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In Sherman Alexie’s‚ “What You Pawn I Will Redeem‚” an alcoholic‚ homeless Indian sets out on a quest to win back his grandmother’s stolen regalia. The main character and narrator‚ Jackson Jackson‚ stumbles upon his stolen family heirloom in a pawnshop window and proceeds to spend the next day trying to earn enough money to buy it back. The pawnshop owner tells him he will sell it back to him for $999 and that he has 24 hours to come up with the money. Jackson gains small amounts of money here and
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Part-Time Every person has a different idea about who they are‚ where they come from and what they stand for. Not every aspect of who a person is is something they get to define for oneself. Sherman Alexie’s book‚ The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian‚ and Roddy Doyle’s story‚ “Home to Harlem”‚ inspire the idea of an identity crisis of two young men because from an outsider’s perspective‚ they feel they are not good enough for their own heritage. Arnold from “True Diary” and Declan from
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