During the novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, written by Sherman Alexie, Junior, a Native American who lives on the Spokane Indian Reservation decides that he wants to go to school at Wellpinit, in a white town that is near “the rez.” Junior chooses to go to Wellpinit because of the better education that he can get there, but this means that he will be the only Native American there, and he will be leaving his Native American family and friends. After attending school at Wellpinit Junior realizes that white people are not better than Native American people just because they are white, and some of the white people are worse people than the Native Americans. When Junior is with white people he must act differently because
