The Turner Diaries

Facing your problems is better than running away from them. The Absolute True Diary of a Part Time Indian and Catcher in the Rye are about teenage characters who feel like an outsider with many problems in the process. Both characters expresses it in their own ways. Both Junior of The Absolute True Diary of a Part time Indian and Holden of Catcher in the Rye feel like outsiders, but Holden is running away from his past whereas Junior is running towards his future. Both characters have a similar…

Sherman Alexie’s, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian” is the account of Arnold Spirit, also known as Junior. Junior is the novel’s narrator and while he is witty and seemingly proud of his heritage in the beginning of the story, it appears the point of the novel is to show us Junior’s transformation. He begins life on the reservation, attending school in Wellpinit, Washington. Eventually, he transfers to an all-white high school twenty-two miles from the reservation in Reardan,…

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…

Discovering and learning the true colors of the world is all part of human experiences. In The novel “The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie, he shows the world through the eyes of a fourteen year old boy who has life threatening situations throughout the book. He wrote this book specifically for teens ranging from the ages of thirteen through sixteen. He wanted to write this book exposing life problems that many are bound to go through. To all of these life problems…

explains that they are “strong, too,” “Just in a different way.” She reminds Rue that she can “feed” herself; that even this minor act of dissention can be, and sometimes has to be, enough. In conclusion: both Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games are interspersed with myriad exhibitions of violence. This violence serves multiple purposes: it emphasizes the scope of the misfortunes weathered by the novels’ protagonists; it causes…

A brief description of Sherman Alexie’s book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian can be presented as a typical young adult story. It tells readers about Arnold Spirit Jr. a gifted boy born and raised in an Indian reservation, possessed by the dream of becoming an artist, one day challenges the system and enters Reardan High School - a better school for white students. Despite the traditional for such genre set of plot moves, such as first love, the first fight, first complexes, the…

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…

The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie is a novel about a Native American named Junior living on the Spokane indian reservation who decides to go to a predominantly white school in order to get a better education. One of the main characters in the story, Mr.P, can be characterized as regretful and compassionate. Sherman Alexie’s purpose in developing Mr.P in this specific way is to progress the plot. One way, we can characterize Mr.P is by describing him as regretful.…

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 Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian we see Arnold develop into a person.…

In the story, The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time Indian, Junior tries to find his identity. He goes on an emotional rollercoaster of a year. He has to face many deaths, bullies, mean teachers, and even love. The first major thing that Jr. does is he leaves his school and goes to an all white school. His family is the only people who accept him for going to Reardan. This was his first step into Juniors long journey on finding himself. He goes to his new school and is automatically rejected…