Bigfoot

People handle difficult situations and express their feelings in many different ways. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, the author communicates the pain and rage that the main character, Arnold Spirit, feels as he faces the everyday challenges of growing up on an impoverished Indian reservation. Throughout the novel, Arnold describes many of the adversities that him and his loved ones have to face, revealing how it emotionally, mentally, and even sometimes physically, takes a…

all white school. He is the only Indian there, except the mascot. “They stared at me, the Indian boy with the black eye and swollen nose, my going away gifts from Rowdy. Those white kids couldn’t believe their eyes. They stared at me like I was Bigfoot or a UFO. What was I doing at Reardan, whose mascot was an Indian, thereby making me the only other Indian in town?” (ALEXIE 56). The start of the year seems pretty bleak to him. As the year goes on, people seem to just ignore him, like he…