Absolute True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian Analysis

The theme that I selected was transition. It is a big transition and challenge when you go from a high school dropout, to going back to college several years later. Coming from the work force, to education, you forget a lot. Not only memory of what you learned years ago, but also how to study more conservatively, using useful study tips you once knew. Now that I look at it, I may have been too optimistic about coming back to college. I didn’t realize the challenges I was going to face, trying to use my time sparingly, between a full time job, and full time school. Academically speaking now, you are used to going to work, coming home, and being able to enjoy your leisure time. Now having to come home, managing your time to do your homework, and study for that next quiz or test is a big transition.
This issue is explained in the book The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, as Junior transitioned from Welpit high school, to Reardan high school. The first transition he would have to face was that he knew he would have to leave behind his best …show more content…
Once going from founders of a rich resourcful land, to almost having nothing. When the pilgrims came, they had envious eyes for the valuable reservation lands, and resources. The pilgrims brought foreign technology, food, and living practices to America. Native American were offered to give up the land willingly, or to fight for this land. They had no chance, because of the advancement of technology. After all was done, Native Americans could live as what traditions the white man were establishing, or were forced westward, and out of their reservations. The federal government themselves took it in their hands to establish where the Native reservations were going to be, through a series of legal acts. Native Americans cannot use the land as their ancestors did for hunting, or fishing, or the traditions they had, due to the laws of the federal