In the book‚ “Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian” Junior‚ the main character‚ writes: “Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No‚ poverty only teaches you how to be poor.” When it comes to being poor‚ Junior does nothing to justify poverty that is he doesn’t say that it makes him a stronger or better person. Instead‚ Junior views poverty as something incredible difficult to overcome‚ a condition that simply reinforces itself. To Junior‚ poverty is generational
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that I thought weren’t attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy.” - Queen Latifah. Everybody talks about this topic; self-confidence. Just like in our everyday lives‚ this theme has also been explored in the novel The absolutely true diary of a part time Indian and stress it to help characters create new friends‚ expect them to try new things. First of all‚ self confidence is important because it helps students make friends and meet new people. If student have problems‚ they talk
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie is an eye opening book about the life of an Indian boy in the Reservation called Arnold Spirit Jr‚ or just Junior as his people call him. Junior is considered weird by his people because of many reasons. He also lead a hard life with his parents‚ sister‚ grandmother‚ and Rowdy as his only friend. As a baby‚ Junior have too much fluid in his brain that caused his thinking process to slow down‚ and highly susceptible to seizure. Fortunately
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In Sherman Alexie’s the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian‚ Junior‚ the Native American teenager and protagonist‚ has trouble reconciling his past to his present. When given the opportunity to leave the reservation to pursue a better future‚ Junior finds that it is hard to leave his past behind. The community on the reservation doesn’t want Junior to move forward to a better and more rewarding future because they feel betrayed by his actions. Junior struggles trying to make a new future
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it means they can be happy. Junior (Arnold.) Takes a bold move leaving the rez. But‚ when Junior leaves the rez‚ he lives a double life. He is poor‚ shunned‚ and bullied on the rez. However‚ at Rearden‚ he is smart‚ rich‚ and popular. “The Absolutely True Diary of A Part Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie takes place at an indian reservation around 2006. Alexie tells the story of a 14 year old poor who leaves his reservation to go to a white school and find hope. When Junior decides to attend Rearden‚
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Smoke Signals: A Metaphor for Telling It has been countless years since I have watched a movie about Native Americans‚ and even longer since I have witnessed a decent one. Most films on the subject of the Native American people are often set in the past and are habitually on the subject of brave Indian warriors. I had never viewed a Native American motion picture filmed in a present day setting‚ dealing with contemporary issues until I watched Smoke Signals. In the movie Smoke Signals‚ co-producer
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In the film Smoke Signals directed by Chris Eyre we understand how a motif of The Power of Long Hair comes into play when we see the theme of pride in Native American culture. Throughout Smoke Signals the bus scene catches our attention when talking about the importance of long hair. Victor is explaining to Thomas that he shouldn’t braid his hair and that he should be proud of letting his hair free. He refers to the pride of being an Indian with hair as free as them. Smoke Signals illustrates a solid
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however‚ it can be further alarming when you are a minority. Being a minority in a large school population increases the student’s chances of being rejected‚ bullied‚ and possibly harassed by their peers. In Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian‚ the difficulty of transferring schools is brilliantly conveyed when the protagonist‚ Arnold Spirit Jr.‚ decides to break through the confinements of his racial status. Alexie’s work‚ directed toward minorities‚ effectively displays
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was caught by Arnold. It quickly fast forwards to where Thomas had grown up to be a skinny‚ story-telling nerd and Victor a buff Indian. Constant flashbacks of Victor’s childhood are shown during the movie. Victor’s father was an angry drunk and would always beat him and his mother. One day‚ his mother decided to sober up for him and that was also the same time his father left. Victor then found out that his father had passed away in Phoenix‚ Arizona‚ thus began his journey with Thomas and the discovery
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formed itself into a new complexity. In addition‚ for the“The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian‚” a way that this story helps to explain thresholds of increasing complexity is that in every story the main character sometimes changes throughout the whole story. So in this book Arnold changes his mindset and decides to get a better education. But this whole situation goes by the ingredients‚ the “Goldilocks”
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