Summary Of The Novel 'The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time Indian'

In the novel The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time Indian a boy named Arnold who is living on a indian reservation with lots of poor, lazy, alcoholics seems to be the only one on the reservation that doesn't drink. Most people in his situation might act like that or lose all hope but somehow, Arnold does not. Arnold stays hopeful throughout the novel. There are times during the book where arnold feels like giving up but, but he never does. There are so many deaths and problems he faced that any normal person would lose hope but Arnold does not. This was used to be his diary, and arnold uses imagery to help show us his feelings and the theme of hope.
One of the many ways hope is portrayed in the novel is with school. Arnold never gives up on school. He even shows this with imagery that he doesn't wanna be there on the first day of school when he says how the white people are almost transparent. He has to travel far for school every day and does this just so he can have a future and he never gives up on that. Most people on the reservation do not care about their future or the fact that they never will have a future if they keep drinking and acting recklessly. After Mr. P is able to give Arnold the push he needed to leave, he took charge of himself and did what he thought was right by leaving the …show more content…
Again he uses imagery to show how angry Rowdy was “ Rowdy's eyes narrowed. His eyes always narrowed right before he beat the crap out of someone” (49). Arnold still always tries talking to him. He emails him all the time and makes effort to be his friend. He doesn't give up hope on their friendship because it's something that's important to him. Again, most people in a situation where there best friend leaves them would not even bother to try talking to them and they would just give up on the friendship. Arnold never gives up hope on