In The absolutely true diary of a part time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Junior often speaks his mind through his drawings. Junior’s emotions are often portrayed in either cartoon or realistic drawing. Some say that one’s emotions can often be depicted from the art that he/she creates. In Sherman Alexie’s novel, Junior often draws things in cartoons, such as his best friend beating someone up or a basketball dunk, while on few occasions he draws things in a realistic fashion such as his father looking cool on his motorcycle. On every occasion in which Junior has drawn himself he has depicted himself in the cartoon. Many people have argued that it could be that he looks down upon himself due to his mental and physical disabilities. I think junior …show more content…
I can also relate to how he views himself. In the past he sort of looked down upon himself because he was disabled and knew that he would always be a step below others. But now he sees more than the stumpy face and misshapen features, and rather the fact that he is very bright with a possible future outside the reservation, still used to the way he portrayed himself in his drawings where he looked like a goof, just not changing because he sought no need to. Junior’s emotions are very fluctuant throughout the novel. These emotions can best be depicted from the drawings that he makes. Whether it be a cartoon or a realistic piece, Junior finds a way to sort of vent his feelings through his artwork. Often he will draw a cartoon to show how he gallantly dunked a basketball on his ex-best …show more content…
Rather he does if for comedic relief in a sense. He understands his flaws and has come to terms with them. So he draws goofy cartoons of himself and friends because drawing is his passion and it helps poke fun at his flaws to help him forget about his troubles. Now on the subject of him drawing himself in cartoons, why hasn’t he drawn himself in the realistic style that he occasionally uses? To summarize what was stated earlier, he sees no reason to. He is relatively satisfied with his current situation. He has more than he had previously in Wellpoint. He also often over dramatizes the cartoons that me makes. The situations they depict are often to the extreme. Finally I think there is a possibility that in the future Junior may feel the need to make a scene in which he himself is drawn in the realistic fashion. It all depends on his mood about the situation and how significant it is to
This is due to the fact that the individual may be going through a stage where their cultures may be contradicting making him feel alienated. One way this is shown in the story is, how the persona, who is half Australian and Chinese, describes his personal appearance by saying, “I caught a glimpse of my poo-brown eyes and flat yellow nose; then I just looked down at my feet as they slunk away”, in this quote we see that the person is describing his personal appearance through imagery, in doing so he is demonstrating his half Asian side. However, we see that he uses emotive language in order to make the reader understand how the boy feels about his appearance. Especially saying how his feet “slunk away”, in other words he is ashamed of his appearance. Later on in the story we see how he describes the Australian kids through, “They had sandy hair, pale freckly skin and blue eyes that could read the board from the back of the room without corrective lenses”. We see in this quote how the he uses imagery to describe them however instead of using poor emotive language he uses a description that practically praises them. In doing so I noticed that the boy hates his Asian side and he thinks looking Australian is better showing how he feels contradicted by his personal image. This teaches me not to be judgmental to bicultural individuals as it may be adding fuel to the
The short story “Cherokee” written by Ron Rash is about a young married couple fighting to save their truck by gambling their last one hundred and fifty-seven dollars in slot machines at a casino in North Carolina. Rash did an impeccable job at creating two ordinary, everyday people by portraying their lives as the working poor of America. The two characters, Danny and Lisa, both work; however, they are barely making it by and fell behind on their truck payments. Throughout the short story is observed a theme of freedom, or lack thereof, not only through the plot but also through psychology and economics.
The average joe is talented in many different ways. Some sing, others dance and things that one does not imagine possible; people out there make it possible. Art is a lifestyle for many. The majority of the time art is being formed is because there is a purpose; a meaningful connection with the creator and creation. A form of psychotherapy that uses art media as its primary mode of communication defines art therapy (Nice Pictures). This is how many express themselves. They have nothing else to turn to; they turn to what they know best. It covers a variety of activities from skateboarding to graffiti to playing sports. An autistic teenager learns to
Lastly, he is presented as a weak person at times, but also can be viewed as extremely strong. While he does suffer extremely badly with discrimination and being isolated a lot, causing him to not open up to many people due to the fear of being beaten or worse, he can be seen as a very strong person, just because of the fact that he gets on with life and doesn't complain much about what goes on
“After his second-grade class created self-portraits last year, I noticed that he was the only one not hanging on the classroom wall. His teacher explained that his portrait was ‘a work in progress.’ The
When Walt was a child, drawing came very natural to him. As he grew up so did his ability to draw vivid pictures. When he w...
. During the observation for this stage, I worked with a child I will call Joe, he is 12 years old. What I could relate to the Lowenfeld artistic stage is that the child is nonvisual because his work is based on subjective experiences. The child was very involved with his picture because he said he was drawing what he loved the most. This is also accurate with what Lowenfeld said about a nonvisual artist being involved with their work because it has a personal meaning to them. One thing that does not relate to this picture was that the child did not use any color to represent his emotion. I think this happen due to him not having time left.
“But then I realized she was my friend. Being a really good friend, in fact. She was concerned” (Alexie 127). This entire event shows Junior that being poor is not a bad thing. It lets him know that people will still be his friend even when they know he is poor.
In American Indian Stories, University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London edition, the author, Zitkala-Sa, tries to tell stories that depicted life growing up on a reservation. Her stories showed how Native Americans reacted to the white man’s ways of running the land and changing the life of Indians. “Zitkala-Sa was one of the early Indian writers to record tribal legends and tales from oral tradition” (back cover) is a great way to show that the author’s stories were based upon actual events in her life as a Dakota Sioux Indian. This essay will describe and analyze Native American life as described by Zitkala-Sa’s American Indian Stories, it will relate to Native Americans and their interactions with American societies, it will discuss the major themes of the book and why the author wrote it, it will describe Native American society, its values and its beliefs and how they changed and it will show how Native Americans views other non-Natives.
Art is a very realistic aspect among the Native Americans. In fact, what we call primitive art is actually symbolic objects from the process of a sacred ceremony. This concept is one not easily understood. Furthermore, this concept by Sam Gill is explained in Native American Religions. Sam Gill shows that Native American Art is different in meaning because of its contents then what modern societies consider art. Nonliterate people produce objects of beauty through ceremonial performances and rituals that keeps the cosmos in order, while modern societies over look these factors.
Just as Johnny’s courage shines through so does his fast maturity from child to adult. His childhood was stolen away from him by his illness but instead of sulking he pulls himself together. He takes every difficulty in stride, and gets through them. Even when he is feeling down he hides it for he does not want anyone else to feel his pain. Being a seventeen year old boy he wants to do the things all other seventeen year old boys do.
He goes through the struggles of deciding who he wants to be and who he is. He lived on a reservation with his family and attended the school there. He decided one day the only way he would go anywhere in life was if he were to attend Reardan, an all-white school. Here, Junior was forced to find who he really was. Junior experienced more struggles and tragedies than any white student at this school. He had to fight through the isolation he first experienced to building up the courage to play in a basketball championship. I believe that every event Junior wrote about throughout the novel had an important purpose, and even more importantly, could be related to sociology. As I read the novel, I constantly thought about questions such as the following: What importance does he have to write about this? Could I relate this to my life? Who is Alexie’s audience? Could anyone read this novel and learn something from it? By the time I completed the novel, I could answer all of these questions without a
“I’m one of those people that gets upset when people don’t feel what I feel, like, ‘How come they don’t feel what I feel after this?’ which is kinda of adolescent,” he laughs. “It’s true, I want to make things that convey an emotional landscape. So as an artist I try to do that. I like to make it personal so… To make my art unique, it has to be personal,” he continues.
Junior showed that his life wasn’t always a piece of cake, but he still wanted to make the best out of what he had. Even though he had to endure things like poverty, and bullying he still showed great strength through it all. People should learn from Junior because he can be a source of great encouragement. His strength didn’t come from winning. His struggles just developed his strengths. And at the end of the day he never surrendered to his struggles and that is what gave him such strength. So, live your life full of strength. Never ever surrender to your struggles because there is always at least a little bit of good and hope.
He is anxious to compensate for the colour of his skin. He shows himself to be ashamed and insecure. However his character is proud because after he remarks on his skin colour he proceeds to defend it and boasts about himself,