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    Deconstructive Theory in Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, a boy named Junior lives on a Spokane Indian reservation in Washington. He chooses to leave the reservation to pursue education at the local public school, Reardan. Reardan is known on reservation for its wealth and largely white student body. In a broader sense, a certain hierarchy exists between life on a reservation and the white society outside of its…

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    While in the process of writing, authors often mirror themes in each of their publications. Sherman Alexie, author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and co-producer of Smoke Signals, demonstrates this technique through the aforementioned works by introducing topics such as family relationships, identity crises, the power of friendships, alcoholism, and the inevitability of death in both storylines. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian reveals the story of a young…

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    wished that you could change something in your life or maybe even wished your life was a completely different? You will always want to leave your current situation is one of the important themes in The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. A story about a teenage Spokane boy’s life on the Reservation (Rez) who attends school in a neighboring white town. The goes to tell short stories of his successes well in school and at home. One way this is shown throughout the story…

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    In Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Alexie channels his voice through Junior, a poor young boy living on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Alexie writes of the impacts of poverty to himself and to an unnamed audience in the form of a diary. The author adopts a bitter and hopeless tone to tell the story of a hot July day when his dog, Oscar, fell ill. Alexie’s inclusion of specific details demonstrates his feelings of resent towards him and his family having their…

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    Discovering One’s Self: Identity as a Theme Within Of Water and The Spirit by Malidoma Patrice Somé Malidoma Somé’s memoir, Of Water and the Spirit, details the life and coming of age of a young boy abducted from his Dagara village in Burkina Faso to be immersed in the White man’s Jesuit seminary school. The book explores the dichotomy of two cultures: European and Dagara, which although seemingly contradictory, coexist within Malidoma Somé. Somé struggles endlessly with self-identity in his…

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    The Struggle of Co-Existing with the Whites in Sherman’s Stories Sherman Alexia is a Renaissance man in regards to the variety of stories he has written. He has been able to emphasize different kinds of themes efficiently to emerge as one of the bestselling story telling writer.In his stories, he explores the themes of poverty, violence, alcoholism, and despair among the Native American people that are both off and on the reservation. The theme that recurs in most of his writing is how he…

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    Entertainment and Recreation in Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake is a fiction novel written around the split narrative between a future dystopian society and a post-apocalyptic world. The narrative follows the thoughts and flashbacks of Snowman, one of the lone survivors of the apocalyptic plague, as he dreams of memories with whom he deems as the most important figures in his life, Oryx and Crake. Within these flashbacks, Snowman reminisces the days of going to school with Crake…

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    In the story ¨Superman and Me¨ by Sherman Alexie, Alexie starts by talking about his father loving books and the way his family and other indians live in poverty with limited resources. He explains that his dad still bought tons of books because he loves books, so he was able to excel even when they did not have much money to get the resources. He then ties this concept into how education is what saved his life and could save many others lives if they try hard enough. Which helped develop his…

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    Writing history, N. Scott Momaday the author of The Way to Rainy Mountain, writes to remember, recollect, and restore his cultural heritage essay (Oates, Joyce 2000). In his pictorial essay, revealing and recovering what is part of his own untold story, Momaday takes on a journey to be at the Aho’s grave, his beloved grandmother and revive her memories of Kiowa. Artfully, he merges two sets of stories to cast his tale: first, he describes Aho’s memories as the only human link to his tribe and…

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    Junior’s Identity Shift Junior was born with cerebrospinal fluid and forty-two teeth, had seizures, a lisp, lived in poverty on an Indian Reservation, and had to deal with many family alcohol addictions and deaths. His life wasn’t easy and it didn't help that we was continuously made fun of and beat up at school. During Junior’s transition into Reardon, he struggled with finding himself. “Traveling between Reardon and Wellpinit, between the little white town and the reservation, I always felt…

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