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    Junior Part Time Indian

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    Does Junior consider himself to be a victim? ¨In the book the absolutely part time Indian by Sherman Alexie, is about Junior who is the main character. He is on the journey to become a man. Junior is special he was born different he had extra fluid in his brain, he had more teeth than an average human. On the road to learning who he is he experiences hardship such as losing three family members in a row. All Instances had to do with intoxication. Junior states “I was crying because I knew five…

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    “Each funeral was a funeral for all of us. We lived and died together.” This quote from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian shows what Arnold Spirit, or Junior, the main character wants to reach. He wants everyone to be connected and united. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Alexie Sherman is about the struggles of a boy fitting into the society he lives in, especially culturally. The book shows how Junior deals with his troubles as he finds out who he is. The…

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    Signals”, and the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, both by Sherman Alexie, the protagonists got through friendship, hope, and loss while they live life on an “Indian” Reservation. Arnold and Rowdy (from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian) and Thomas and Victor (from “Smoke Signals”) need their friends to help them get through the everyday struggle of poverty. They also need lots of hope to get through good times and bad, and to hope that when they come home…

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    Part-Time Indian Heroism

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    like the ones featured in fairytales, but that does not mean that they are any less of a hero because a hero is someone who is able to learn from themselves and others to make a situation better. In Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, an Indigenous teen named Junior is able to become a hero while he faces many conflicts in his life using his heroic traits. Through Junior’s courage, he is willing to make unusual choices that seem insane. Junior can also recover from…

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    Hope is a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.. Hope plays a big role in people’s lives by giving them something to look forward to. In the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part- Time Indian written by Sherman Alexie has hope play a significant role in the main character, Junior’s life. In life we have our hobbies that allows us to escape reality for a bit. Junior’s hobby, drawing allows him to escape by providing him hope about his life. By drawing it makes him…

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    What new skills did you gain? As I worked on my ISP throughout this course, I used note taking skills, I used prior knowledge and I also made sure to read the title of each chapter to predict what was going to happen. Firstly, I believe that I was able to improve on my note taking skills because since I already had a thesis in mind, I was able to find the most important events and quotes prove my statement. This also allowed me to take relevant and focused notes. Secondly, by using information…

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    Sometimes we need to take uncomfortable risks if we wish to change our lives. Even though these decisions at the moment might frighten us we need to make them in order to see hope farther down the road. In Sherman Alexie book Diary of a Part Time Indian Arnold Spirit is a 12-year old boy is a reservation indian who leaves his tribe to pursue a better education at Reardan, which is a all white school. Arnold makes tough decisions that contradict the expectations of his tribe ,because he…

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    Women are well recognized for their capability to manage numerous responsibilities and tasks at the same time. They are able to protect their household especially their children and simultaneously give their time to their work. From way back, everything was different. The expenditures to live were reasonable and inexpensive like today. And it was enough for the husband to be the jobholder in the family. Nowadays, and due to the economy crisis women have began to hold their family. Not just for…

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    definitely omnipresent in adolescent literature. They are not only harmful, but continue to make gender equality in present time an unattainable goal. Through analyzing the influences that play a role in the formation of a child’s gender schema, and exemplifying the gender norms and stereotypes that run rampant throughout Sherman Alexie’s, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, evidence of…

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    In the New York Times Best Seller book, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” written by novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker, Sherman Alexie is a story about the narrator who is a young boy named Arnold Spirit, Jr. Throughout the story, Arnold, also known as Junior, is met with lots of challenges and difficult people to deal with. Within the story there are different characters and types of people that Junior has to learn to deal with. Also, Junior has to learn how to…

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