People have many habits that they have throughout their life, many have the habit of biting their nails when they’re nervous. Another example would be to follow the appropriate paths in life that will give them the best in life. However, the three habits that Junior achieved throughout the book are habits that improved his life. In the book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is about a young teenage boy named Junior who is being brought down by the past lives of his family members who had lost hope. This hopeless environment is expecting Junior to lose hope from following his dreams. His hopeless future was eventually changed by Mr. P, he encouraged him to not give up on his dreams and look at paths that will give him a better
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According to The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, “You need to take off your shoes and stand in another's” (Covey 72). While Junior turned into a white student at the reservation he forgot how it had felt to be an Indian who only had triumph from a basketball game. Junior had gotten new shoes that he didn’t realize that the people who he cares about doesn’t have them. In that matter, Junior didn’t realize that getting an even defeat was not the appropriate thing to do. In page 195, Junior is comparing the level of the type of problems his white teammates with his old Indian teammates, “Okay, so maybe my white teammates had problems, serious problems, but none of their problems were life threatening” (Alexie 195). At the end of the second basketball game Junior had with his old school he realized that Rowdy, his best friend, didn’t want to get his anger out towards Junior with a game but to defeat people who are the opposite of him, people who don’t realize that a victory of a basketball game would deliver them a smile on their faces for at least a day. Junior also perceived that Indians his age have various life threatening events in their lives at such a young age with no food to eat, not having parents who will be proud of their minor achievements, and most importantly not having an outstanding education that will send them to college. With Junior being able to apprehend the modest events in Indians lives by the end of the story he showed that he understood the situation they were in and gather back all the relationships he had with people he care about the
According to The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, “You need to take off your shoes and stand in another's” (Covey 72). While Junior turned into a white student at the reservation he forgot how it had felt to be an Indian who only had triumph from a basketball game. Junior had gotten new shoes that he didn’t realize that the people who he cares about doesn’t have them. In that matter, Junior didn’t realize that getting an even defeat was not the appropriate thing to do. In page 195, Junior is comparing the level of the type of problems his white teammates with his old Indian teammates, “Okay, so maybe my white teammates had problems, serious problems, but none of their problems were life threatening” (Alexie 195). At the end of the second basketball game Junior had with his old school he realized that Rowdy, his best friend, didn’t want to get his anger out towards Junior with a game but to defeat people who are the opposite of him, people who don’t realize that a victory of a basketball game would deliver them a smile on their faces for at least a day. Junior also perceived that Indians his age have various life threatening events in their lives at such a young age with no food to eat, not having parents who will be proud of their minor achievements, and most importantly not having an outstanding education that will send them to college. With Junior being able to apprehend the modest events in Indians lives by the end of the story he showed that he understood the situation they were in and gather back all the relationships he had with people he care about the