The Absolutely True Diary Of Part Time Indian Analysis

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The book “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian” by Sherman Alexie tells about how Junior feels as a part-time Indian in Wellpinit and a part-time white boy at Reardan high school. Junior was an outcast, he had no friends, all he had in common with others was basketball. At the end of the story, Junior cames to accept the two places as home. In the beginning, Junior was is outcast in both Wellpinit and at Reardan High school. In Wellpinit, where Junior had lived for a long time, there are many alcoholics. Many fights break out because they had to protect themselves, steal or get revenge on somebody who disrespects them. Junior wasn’t a good fighter, so he was the easiest target “Everybody on the Rez called me a retarded, they stuffing my head in the toilet or smacking me upside the head (4)”. He got bullied because he enjoyed going to school, draw cartoons and he was also smart. Reardan High is an all white school where Junior had transfer. He realized that he was the only one that is a different race. Nobody paid attention to him,”I went from being a small target in Wellpinit to being a larger target in Reardan(65).” They would made fun of him and they would give him a hard time because he wasn’t from here. They support him for his loss of his grandma and …show more content…

Then he started to showed them he wasn’t afraid and started make new friends. “I had challenged the alpha dog and was now being rewarded for it (72).”His first friend was Gorby, he stood up for Junior during a class and showed him all the different books in the library. After that, Junior and Penelope date, the most popular girl in Reardan. Even though Junior knows Penelope is just using him because he is a different from others. So Junior started to used her , too. So everybody in Reardan High knows who Junior is and they support him.. Passing through the challenges, Wellpinit and Reardan High school had accepted him the way he

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