Smoke Signals

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Take Home Test Sherman Alexie’s National Book Award Winning novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, deals with many sensitive issues and topics that teenagers can relate to in their own lives. Dealing with friendships, identity, and bravery, Alexie’s novel constructs an emotional bond with the audience by addressing matters important in a young reader's life. To deprive certain school districts of this piece of literature, is…

Smoke Signals is unique among movies, in that it is the first feature film to be written, directed, co-produced, and starring Native American Indians. Most viewers of the film can easily pick up on how comfortable the creators are with its setting and its characters. We can sense that this was done by people who genuinely care about the Native American people at large. The film opens with a flashback to a Native American reservation in Idaho. In the scene the viewer watches as an infant,…

“I refused to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant. I was lucky.” This is a quote from the article “Superman and Me”, that was used by Sherman Alexie. Alexie believed this is what he was and will be. Sherman Alexie was a young Spokane Indian boy that lived on a reservation with the provided needs to live. His family was poor but still managed to obtain all of the necessary essentials. One thing that they had an abundance of was books. The father of Alexie was fascinated with reading, so Alexie…

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie is about an Indian, Junior, who lives on the reservation and eventually decides he wants to go to an all-white school. Not only is this already exemplifying diversity, but he also has medical problems and is very poor, unlike the other kids. Throughout this book diversity is show in many ways: the difference in the white school verses the school on the reservation, how the parents raise their kids, and interactions in the…

Friendship comes in many different ways, there are nice, mean, some whom are close and some whom are not close friends. In the book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie, Arnold who is the main character has one really good friend who is Rowdy. They were friends since they were born. Arnold and Rowdy both live on a reservation where people are going through hard times. Arnold wanted to go to a school that wasn’t on a reservation and Rowdy felt as if Arnold was…

In the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, Junior values love and friendship as the most important aspect in his life, and has to overcome various obstacles to keep everything he values in one scattered piece. First of all, we analyze what friendship actually means to Junior. His best friend is Rowdy. In the reservation, they have no other friends except each other. Rowdy visits Juniors home very often , because his father regularly hits him, which causes Rowdy to have…

In the novel, Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Arnold by Sherman Alexie, Arnold “Junior” Spirit, the protagonist, is a smart indian boy who hopes for a better life. He's a broke indian who lives on a reservation where everyone drinks. Junior goal to get off the reservation started by him moving to a school off the reservation. Some people didn't support his decisions but he does it anyway. Junior is a smart indian who loves books. He also loves to draw, he plays basketball. He is…

In the text “Superman and me” by Sherman Alexie are trying to teach you the theme “ If you put the effort in your life you can reach your goal. In the text, Alexie said “ A little Indian boy teaches himself to read at an early age and advances quickly. Also, “We were Indian children who were expected to be stupid. Last “ I refused to fail; I was smart; I was arrogant; I was lucky, I read books late into the night until I can barely keep my eyes open. I can also relate this to one of Dr.Seuss…

The audiences in this article are the individual who wants to know about Indian reservation. The author’s purpose is to inform to the audience about how they are living on a combination of irregular paychecks, fear, and hope and government surplus food. The author explained his points well in the article and his tone was respectful because he tried not to offend the group of the people who are still living on the reservation. Sherman Alexie’s main idea in the article is how Alexie defies…

The Resilient Thrive of a Native In all three compositions: the short story Superman and Me by Sherman Alexie, the painting Contemporary Sioux Indian by James Bama, and the poem Without Title by Diane Glancy all exemplify the resiliency in modern Native American culture. Ever since the British came to America the Native American culture has been distorted. Without obtaining resiliency as a Native…