Spokane people

Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Is a book that poses these questions to the reader. This books main character also has to answer these questions throughout the book. The book is follows Junior, a 14 year old boy from the Spokane indian reservation and his struggles through grief and poverty. On top of these struggles, Junior decides to attend an all white school neighboring the reservation. This decision causes many in his tribe to get mad at him including his best and…

whether we are aware of it or not. An intense example of this is found on the Spokane Indian Reservation, surrounding a boy named Arnold. The reservation is drowning in poverty and few people ever leave. Arnold makes an incredibly brave decision to transfer to a rich, white, off reservation high school and changes the course of his life. Shocking his family, the community on the reservation, and the wealthy white people at Reardan High School. As Arnold attempts to break free from the chains of…

Poverty, unemployment and high rates of suicide, who does this ethnic group toggle memories of (Peralta)? In the unfortunate events of discrimination and prejudice against the First Nations living in Canada and the United States, this holds true when looking back at the past and present day. The famous writer, Sherman Alexie also known as Junior, is able to share and beautifully capture his experiences through his book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Throughout his novel, he…

He uses the paragraph—“a fence around words”(1)—to make sense of himself, his family members, his home, the Spokane Indian reservation and the United States. He links his early literacy to his love for his father, an underemployed “avid reader” who is “one of the few Indians who went to Catholic school on purpose” (1), underscoring his own choice to strive for…

In “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight In Heaven” Alexie, refers himself to Victor, the little boy in the poem. He discusses the hurricanes that happen at the Spokane Indian Reservation at the most unexpected times; the hurricanes are incidents that occur. Victor grew up with alcoholic parents and in poverty. He explains how his family would have times where they would have no food to eat, or the time when it was…

a boy name Arnold, who was born on the Spokane Indian reservation, with several medical problems. Also, he was bullied by everyone in the Indian reservation except his best friend Rowdy. Arnold always wanted to receive a better education then what he learn from the Indian reservation so he leaves the rez to attend an all-white school in town which he make that hard choice but to leave the reservation. Therefore, Arnold was considered a traitor for his people because he decided to leave the rez…

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…

her family would survive. This is revealed is the quote, “...were I to cry ever so much, that would not make things better, I must try to make myself happy without a fortune” (LePrince de Beaumont, pp. 1). However, like everyone else living on the Spokane Indian Reservation, Junior and his family have living in poverty their whole life that goes back generations from generations. Unlike in “Beauty and the Beast”, where Beauty’s father had a chance of regaining his fortune, there seems to be a…

Absolutely Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie Junio, is a kid in high school who was born with medical problems and gets bullied often because of it. He lives on a Spokane Indian Reservation next to the town Rearden, where he later goes to an all white school. Junior tries to stay positive as he is rejected by his people and classmates. When someone is “straddling two worlds” they have to go “back and forth between the fringes of” those “both worlds” (Pat Mora). Others are not…

came to learning to read and write there were many dissimilarities between how they both grew up and how they came about being the person they wanted to be. Douglass grew up a slave in 1818 as opposed to Alexie that was raised by his people on a reservation, yet both were still considered underdogs when it came to education. The seven years Douglass lived with Master Hugh’s family, he succeeded in reading and writing with the help of his mistress teaching him the alphabet. It…