Sherman Alexie Essay

Sherman Alexie, as one of the best-known Native American authors in the United States, grew up on a Spokane Indian reservation enclosed by poverty, alcoholism, disease, and against all odds, transpired to become one of the best American writers under forty according to The New Yorker and Granta (Cline 197). Moreover, the New Yorker named Alexie one of the top twenty writers for the twenty-first century (Anonymous 35). Chadwyck-Healey (1) stated that Alexie was influenced by the poetry of Allen…

In the novels Speak by Laurie Anderson and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie, freshmen Melinda and Arnold are adjusting to their new schools, but find themselves as outsiders in the sea of their fellow students. Many of these students loathe Melinda because she called the police on a party last year, even though the call was made in desperation after being a victim of rape. Arnold encounters comparable challenges. The students at his school have animosity towards…

Sherman Alexie mixes the Native American world with the middle class white world, creating quite an enlightening mixture of adventure in the novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Arnold (Junior), an Indian teenager, was a nobody; He was “a zero on the rez” (16). Little did Junior know that every thing he thought about himself as a zero is about to be proven wrong. In Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Arnold’s transformation ignited within a maze…

Through the trials of life we’re all just trying to answer one question: Who am I? Arnold tackles that exact question in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. For the sake of self-discovery, Arnold goes against the wishes of his community, he puts himself in a brand new territory and does things that he wouldn’t have at Wellpinit. He pretends to be someone he isn’t, but eventually we know who Arnold really is, and how he preserves himself in his mad world. In The…

How does a weak and shy ninth grader manage to become a very self-confident person by the end of the book? In the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie, Arnold is a dynamic character because he changes throughout the story. By leaving the reservation and attending a different school he grows as a person. He experiences the loss of family members and close friends and that crushes him. His changing relationship with his best friend Rowdy causes him to be more…

The book that i have chosen is called, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” written by Sherman Alexie. This book has an interesting character named Arnold Junior. People originally calls him Junior. Personally, i love the character in this book, because junior is always open and straightforward! He bes himself; however, he can be very angry and disgusting! The story It starts him of at his Spokane Indian Reservation. Since, his residents valued alcohol over education;…

In the book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Native American author Sherman Alexie writes about his life on the Spokane Washington Indian Reservation. The main character Arnold Spirit who liked to be called Junior portrays Alexie who grew up on an Indian Reservation. Junior struggled with his identity on a personal level, along with how others view him, and how all non-Indians picture Native Americans. Throughout Junior has added difficulty because Indians are surrounded by…

The poet, Sherman Alexie, used two main poetic devices to portray his purpose. He has a strong aversion to facebook. He uses a blunt diction and a sarcastic then depressing tone to portray his dislike of the values in this era. The present era that Sherman’s poem represents puts everything in the “public domain,” and uses facebook as it’s forum. The values of the era in the poet's opinion are noted throughout the poem. He believes that the desire to be liked is important. He points this out with…

film-producer, and poet, Sherman Alexie specializes in conveying a healthy and constructive message on coping with violence to his young-adult readers with violent scenes in his novels in his novels The True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Flight, and Reservation Blues. After presenting issues, Alexie shows his main characters’ transformation from weak to strong and from violent to calm. Without pomposity, Alexie often delivers a strong meaning of positive transformation through his novels. Alexie…

How amazing that a Superman comic book can be the first step for a three-year-old Native American boy to become one of the greatest authors in America. Sherman Alexie, was born in 1966 and raised on the Spokane Indian reservation in Wellpinit Washington. He is one of the most foremost Native American writers in the U.S. His story (The Joy of Reading and Writing) starts when he fell in love with books and he tried to read his first book. It was touching on superman in a comic way. The book…