The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

education for opportunities, how you want to provide for loved ones, but most importantly is the idea that you want to improve not only your life but the ones you love to. All my interviewees agree with each other when it comes to the most important parts of the American Dream. Dr. Darrel Stufflebeam was born and raised in Iowa. He later went to college at the University of Northern Iowa to study political science…

today’s time, equality is what people are all about and want in their lives. Today’s people are more social media oriented and believe whatever it is the see about politics or any kind of decision that is made. Nowadays, hardly anybody will actually do research to find out if they got the right information or not. By today’s standards people just believe the first thing they see. If you were to go back and read “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” it had more problems than we do now. In the…

think your reaction to death would be? would you be sad, would you be numb to death at that point? Do you think you could be as resilient as Junior is in this novel? In Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. The main character has to deal with the struggles of being the only Indian in an all-white school. He has to overcome death, bullying, confidence struggles and more. Junior’s resilience builds through loss and is affected by both his support systems (in some cases,…

life to be courageous? Do you show courage in your everyday life? Google defines courage as the ability to do something that frightens one. Using that definition, I could say that I’m courageous because I rode a rollercoaster this fall for the first time and that frightened me. I’m even more frightened to sleep with my lamp off in my room but two nights ago, I did anyways. Do these things make me a courageous person? Can I really say that I, Faith Toutant, am courageous for doing these things?…

It teaches them about themselves. It teaches them that they can be strong, brave, they can take care of themselves and that they can be anything they want to be. We hear about this when Louise finds out she can start along her path of medicine at a time where it was improper for girls to do so. “Pocked Louise, with her interest in medicine, was especially thrilled to learn all that their new headmistress could teach them about anatomy and diseases.” (Berry, pg 339) It also teaches the girls…

Memories plays a monumental role in one's lifestyle. They have the power to crush and to transform one's identity. Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden both use memory as the fundamental building blocks to the protagonists' life story. In Sherman Alexie's novel, memory is used as a background for Junior's character transformation. Ariel Dorfman, on the other hand, portrays memory as more of a debilitating factor than anything…

With today’s technology scientists have been able to figure out how the brain works; through this research, they have found that the brain is affected by reading in a peculiar way. Most actions activate a specific part of the brain; for example, listening to music will activate the part of the auditory region of the brain. According to Annie Murphy Paul, scientists have found that reading words associated with smells not only activate the language-processing portion of the brain, but also the…

Sally begins her first day of freshman year at a new school. It was her first year going into high school and she had no idea what to expect. Sally was so intimidated by all the students that attended the school and how large it actually was. Each of her classes were packed with students, at least 20 in each class. After the bell rang, that’s when the chaos began. Every student would practically run out of their class to the next, hundreds of students in the halls, frantically looking for their…

leads them to think in ways that are irrational. As shown in Ishmael Beah’s memoir A Long Way Gone, ishmael faces his injustice when he is forced upon a gun and drugs when all he wants is his family back. Similarly, in the book the absolutely true diary of a part time Indian, Arnold transfers to an all white school losing his reservations trust and loyalty and is stuck between his hatred full town or a school that does whatever it can to reject…

by white people (Lee, 144). Just as Maycomb uses the term "nigger-lover," Junior has experienced racism by being threatened that if he and Penelope "make charcoal babies," her father would "kick her out of [his] house" (Alexie, 109). Junior is an Indian, and being told that he would have babies who are charcoal coloured is racist since it expresses the disapproval of Penelope's relationship because of Junior's skin colour. Correspondingly, Scout's father has experienced many racial remarks…