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Every time when we get to a new place we always try to couple to the new environment no matter if we are kids, teenagers or adults we all want the same thing. No matter if in our job, our school we are a different person that who we are in the house. In the book, the absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian the author starts to adapt to the culture of the white kids in his school. But it was not easy because at the beginning the author was rejected by the school kids and the teachers for…

How do our life experiences shape our values? Values and beliefs are something most people hold dear to heart. We can begin to form the values from experiences as children or adults. The ideology that happiness in life will come from finding your own home, or even making your own. Struggles and past experiences can give us different values as people. Some people have a distaste for the land they were born in, or the situation they were handed in life, but found a home and found happiness.…

different. From a few books we read and movies we watched in English, there are some examples of appearances from each. In The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Arnold looks a little different from the other kids and he gets teased and beaten up from it. He has a bigger head, hands and feet. He’s called a retard everyday, multiple times. They pants him and stuff his head in the toilet. “Do you know what happens to retards on the rez? We get beat up. At least once a month. Yup, I…

=----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------= How hard would it be for you, if you had to leave your school and everyone you knew, to go to a place where you were different and stood out. In the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Arnold a 9th grader stands up for his culture and takes on a higher academic education. But for him to do this, he needs to leave the reservation and go to a rich white…

Arnold, the main character in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, would argue that fighting for family is of the greatest importance. For instance, after Mary, Arnold's sister, died in a house fire, Arnold and his dad have a heart-to-heart moment. "'I love you,' he said. Wow. He hardly ever said that to me. 'I love you, too,' I said. I never said that to him" (Alexie 207). After Mary’s death, Arnold and his dad have a moment in the car where they say the words “I…

Believe in yourself and others will believe in you The motivation of others can drive of forward to achieve our goals. It can also boost our self confidence and give us something to believe in. But that doesn’t always happen. People bring themselves down because they think they’re not good enough. They think that nobody will believe in them, that nobody with stand by them in the line of fire. But that’s not necessarily true. People always motivate their friends, teammates, even people they…

From the time I get up in the morning until the time I go to sleep, I am engulfed in the wave of technology. My alarm clock from my cell phone wakes me. On my drive to school, I sync my phone to the radio so that I can listen to music and answer a call if I get one. Once I arrive to school, my first period teacher instructs me to go to the computer lab t to type and share a paper vial google docs. Second period, my math teacher gives us more operations to put into our calculators. Third…

This text is an excerpt from chapter 6 of Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. This passage occurs a week later, after Junior damages Mr. P's nose. Junior wishes to transfer to Reardan, a privileged white school. He explains that he wants to transfer schools, for he wants a better education. Junior thinks that by going to Reardan, he will be able to get the educational opportunity he never got. The author informs the reader that in order to get a decent education,…

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…

Issues! Poverty is a word that many of you hear all the time and something that you are familiar with. You have probably read millions of books and watched millions of inspirational movies about how people overcame the obstacles of poverty and after it was rainbows and butterflies. However, that’s usually not the case, and the terrifying cycle of poverty is very hard to overcome as we can see in the book “The Absolutely true Diary of a Part Time Indian”. But before we get deeper into the…