How does a weak and shy ninth grader manage to become a very self-confident person by the end of the book? In the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie, Arnold is a dynamic character because he changes throughout the story. By leaving the reservation and attending a different school he grows as a person. He experiences the loss of family members and close friends and that crushes him. His changing relationship with his best friend Rowdy causes him to be more self-confident. Arnold changes from being a reservation kid who is seen as shy and weak and was picked on by others to a friendlier and more self-confident person.
Arnold Changes in the story by going to Reardon. Reardon is a big turning point in his life because at Reardon Jr.becomes Arnold where he becomes more self-confident about himself. In Wellpinit he is one of the kids there who had lost all hope and are not going to college because of poverty where he would have the same future as his parents. Mr.P his geometry teacher tells him that everyone on the reservation has lost all hope except Arnold. "You're the smartest kid in the …show more content…
This changes him because he has always seen Indian deaths through alcohol. He changes because he realizes what Indians do with their hopeless lives. He sees this as one of the worst things in the world. Of his own people, 90% on the reservation will drink alcohol and 60% of them will die because of alcohol. Arnold has had to cope with many deaths, his grandmother, and his sister which Arnold thought of them as very close to him. Rowdy said that Arnold killed his sister, “Your sister is dead because you left us. You killed her.” (Alexie 211)At that moment Arnold realizes that he killed his sister and that he had to live with that. But he soon realized that his sister was brave and that it was not his fault it was his sister’s choice to
Arnold Changes in the story by going to Reardon. Reardon is a big turning point in his life because at Reardon Jr.becomes Arnold where he becomes more self-confident about himself. In Wellpinit he is one of the kids there who had lost all hope and are not going to college because of poverty where he would have the same future as his parents. Mr.P his geometry teacher tells him that everyone on the reservation has lost all hope except Arnold. "You're the smartest kid in the …show more content…
This changes him because he has always seen Indian deaths through alcohol. He changes because he realizes what Indians do with their hopeless lives. He sees this as one of the worst things in the world. Of his own people, 90% on the reservation will drink alcohol and 60% of them will die because of alcohol. Arnold has had to cope with many deaths, his grandmother, and his sister which Arnold thought of them as very close to him. Rowdy said that Arnold killed his sister, “Your sister is dead because you left us. You killed her.” (Alexie 211)At that moment Arnold realizes that he killed his sister and that he had to live with that. But he soon realized that his sister was brave and that it was not his fault it was his sister’s choice to