Have you ever wished that you could change something in your life or maybe even wished your life was a completely different? You will always want to leave your current situation is one of the important themes in The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. A story about a teenage Spokane boy’s life on the Reservation (Rez) who attends school in a neighboring white town. The goes to tell short stories of his successes well in school and at home.
One way this is shown throughout the story is with everyone wanting to move away either from their current situation or their residence. The quote, “We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But nope there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly." (page 112). This helps to show how the two characters Penelope and Arnold (Jr.) don’t want to stay put where despite everything around them telling then that’s what they are suppose to do and be okay with it. Another quote to can be found on page 89, "If I was brave enough to go to Reardan, then she'd be brave enough to marry a Flathead Indian and move to Montana.” Here Arnold (Jr.) points out …show more content…
Back to the time when Arnold heard Penelope in the bathroom puking he goes on to say "Penelope gorges on her pain then throws it up and flushes it away. My dad drinks his pain away." (Page 107). Arnold as well mentions how he dealt with his pain especially after his grandmother's death, "I kept making list after list of things that made me feel joy. And I kept drawing cartoons of the things that made me angry. I keep writing and rewriting, drawing and redrawing, rethinking and revising and re-editing. It became my grieving ceremony." (Page 178). These quotes from the story show that everyone has things they wished would/could be different and how they all have different ways of dealing with them and trying to move on from
One way this is shown throughout the story is with everyone wanting to move away either from their current situation or their residence. The quote, “We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But nope there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly." (page 112). This helps to show how the two characters Penelope and Arnold (Jr.) don’t want to stay put where despite everything around them telling then that’s what they are suppose to do and be okay with it. Another quote to can be found on page 89, "If I was brave enough to go to Reardan, then she'd be brave enough to marry a Flathead Indian and move to Montana.” Here Arnold (Jr.) points out …show more content…
Back to the time when Arnold heard Penelope in the bathroom puking he goes on to say "Penelope gorges on her pain then throws it up and flushes it away. My dad drinks his pain away." (Page 107). Arnold as well mentions how he dealt with his pain especially after his grandmother's death, "I kept making list after list of things that made me feel joy. And I kept drawing cartoons of the things that made me angry. I keep writing and rewriting, drawing and redrawing, rethinking and revising and re-editing. It became my grieving ceremony." (Page 178). These quotes from the story show that everyone has things they wished would/could be different and how they all have different ways of dealing with them and trying to move on from