A lot of people face hardship with their nationalities, in particular Native Americans.
The character Arnold in the “The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie, suffers from hardship as a Native American. In Arnold’s reservation, his school is poor and has a really low educational system, as is true for all Natives in America. According to the Huffington Post, only 51 percent of Native Americans graduated from high school in 2010. Moreover, Arnold in the book goes to a school that is so poor that in his class he is studying the same book that his parents were using when they were his age. It says in the novel “My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. …show more content…
They would be poor, they probably wouldn’t have any job, they would be drunk and would maybe die at a young age. They would never have a bright future, if they stayed on the reservation. Additionally, many people are poor on earth but one of the largest poor population are Indians, it’s like it’s part of their destiny to be poor. In “The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie the protagonist Arnold confront this trouble as an Indian in a reservation. In Arnold’s rez most of the Native Americans are poor, and suffer from it, just like his family is also poor. It states in the Huffington Post that Native peoples suffer from high rates of poverty and unemployment…..27 percent of all self-identified Native Americans and Alaska Natives live in poverty, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. In the story, Arnold explain how he feels that being poor is part of his future, his destiny, he can’t change it. He feels like he is poor because he is Indian. One of the quote about poverty is “It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor. You start believing that you’re poor because you’re stupid
The character Arnold in the “The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie, suffers from hardship as a Native American. In Arnold’s reservation, his school is poor and has a really low educational system, as is true for all Natives in America. According to the Huffington Post, only 51 percent of Native Americans graduated from high school in 2010. Moreover, Arnold in the book goes to a school that is so poor that in his class he is studying the same book that his parents were using when they were his age. It says in the novel “My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. …show more content…
They would be poor, they probably wouldn’t have any job, they would be drunk and would maybe die at a young age. They would never have a bright future, if they stayed on the reservation. Additionally, many people are poor on earth but one of the largest poor population are Indians, it’s like it’s part of their destiny to be poor. In “The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie the protagonist Arnold confront this trouble as an Indian in a reservation. In Arnold’s rez most of the Native Americans are poor, and suffer from it, just like his family is also poor. It states in the Huffington Post that Native peoples suffer from high rates of poverty and unemployment…..27 percent of all self-identified Native Americans and Alaska Natives live in poverty, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. In the story, Arnold explain how he feels that being poor is part of his future, his destiny, he can’t change it. He feels like he is poor because he is Indian. One of the quote about poverty is “It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor. You start believing that you’re poor because you’re stupid