The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time Indian Summary

The Absolutely True Diary of a part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie is the story of a teenage boy, named Junior, struggling with his tribe's culture. The young boy loses hope in his tribe, and he decides to pursue his education outside of the reservation. This caused numerous amounts of backlash between his friend and many members of his tribe. But he continues on with his education, because he believes that the culture of his people will drag him down and that he will never escape the reservation.
Junior’s culture that he shares with the members of the reservation is very different compared to my own. Their people have been repressed by white society for so many years that it has created an endless cycle of people telling them they can't. And because of this cycle they lose their hope. They all know that …show more content…
But there is one difference they don't know; it is hope Native Americans have lost all hope. They have suffered and suffered and have lost all their desires. They know because they live on the reservation that there dreams will not come true. They can't have anything they want unlike white society; where as, we have the ability to do whatever we want without limitations we have what they call “White Privilege.” We are not discriminated against and we live in communities with higher incomes and better schools. We have a better chance to be successful. Native Americans have the same rights as us but not the same opportunity. Native Americans know how to appreciate the world and the gifts they have, while in my culture the children just expect gifts from their parent they don't take in to count money because it has never been a problem the children have less to worry about when they don't live on the reservation. While children on the reservation know that they are poor and they know they can't buy gifts for christmas and