Analysis Of The True Diary Of A Part Time Indian

The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian is a first person narrative written from the point of view of a fourteen year old boy Arnold Spirit Jr also known as his Indian Reservation name Junior. The novel is written in diary form where Junior uses visual and verbal language techniques to make his feelings and experiences felt. The point of view in which the story will be told is the most important decision the novelist has to make. As this is what affects the way a reader will feel, emotionally and morally towards the all the characters in the novel.(Focalisation. p.1). The way Junior is telling the story makes you begin to feel for the Indian’s and all people of all Indigenous cultures. They are labelled as poor, lazy, irrational, uncivilized and crude (week 5 lecture p.28) but Junior is trying to point out we are not all the same. Junior uses cartoons as a form of telling his story because ‘words are too unpredictable’ and ‘words are too limited’ (p.5). Junior …show more content…
Junior tries to work it out so his Father didn’t have to kill him but nothing was logical. ‘My parents came from poor people who came from poor people who came from poor people, all the way back to the very first poor people.’ (p. 11) Junior realises that if he was going to beat this poverty cycle he was going to have to do it on his own. Junior tries very hard to hide it from the students at Reardan as he is starting to fit in the students assume his family has money and so he pretends he is middle class and has a little bit of money as he doesn 't want them to know how poor he really is, when they do find out they are sympathetic and give him a helping hand and don’t make him feel bad about it at