The Absolutely True Diary Part-Time Indian

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Hope helps us to live through tough times. When we stay positive about our future, and feel that we have to fight to win the problems you are dealing with, our probability to succeed increases. Remember that our subconscious mind is the most powerful thing on this earth. With its help, you can make an impossible possible, or win a war. For example, from the book The Absolutely True Diary Part-Time Indian demonstrates various ways of hope and dreams found in the book. Junior's experience, they're very closely connected. At the beginning of the novel, Junior understands dreams and hopes primarily as lost opportunities. His mother and father, “dreamed of being something other than poor, but they never got the chance to be anything because nobody

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