My First Flag

My first flag is about the character Arnold Spirit from the book, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie. Arnold is a budding cartoonist living at the rez (Spokane Indian Reservation), he sees how his family and friends are suffering inside his troubled home and he takes his future into his own hands. After seeing he got the same textbook that his mother used when she was fifteen (who is thirty years older than him), he decided to leave after his teacher on the rez told him to leave the rez as soon as possible because the school on the rez only teaches kids to give up. Knowing that he was going to be hated by or even killed by his neighbors for being a “white lover”, he decides to go to a all-white farm town high …show more content…
I chose this book because I can relate to it the character a lot and the book had a lot to do with the American Dream. I can relate to him because we shared the same experiences and same thoughts on the same topic -- instability of life in general. We both are pioneers trying to find a new future, a new world that we can live in peace and don’t have to worry about money or education and to not to live like those who influence us the most. Our parents both decided for us to go to a better school for us to make a better life for ourselves because they know it’s important and crucial to live a stable life. I depicted Arnold climbing up the ladder of hope while he looks down at the rez which depicts hopelessness and suffering.
My second flag is about my own experiences. My family is not rich. To tell the truth, we’re far from rich. Many people think because we live in Upper Saddle River, we’re instantly rich but that’s not the case. In the book, Arnold gets mistaken as rich because people think that the government just hands out money to Indians and they’re rich because of the casino on the rez. That’s not true. Even in Bergen County, there are many poor people and struggling people, it’s just that some people don’t let that out and