Part Time Indian Analysis

The Absolutely True Diary of Part-Time Indian: a Journey of Hope “There is another world, but it is in this one” (W.B Yeats), this is how Alexei Sherman managed to begin the journey of his eye-opener novel, The Absolutely True Dairy of Part-time Indian. It is a magnificent story of overcoming the obstacles associated with being an Indian teenager by stepping outside the reservation world and striving for better opportunities in another world. Junior, who carries the native blood in his veins, gives an insight of the Native American culture encompassing all of its sacred and astonishing details. Through Junior’s experience and between the storylines, various aspects of the Native American community tend to appear such as poverty, alcoholism,

Abusive relationships, senseless death, constant fights, and other social issues have arisen as a result of the extensive use of alcohol. It not the shortage of food or medicines that killed the native people, rather it the irrational drinking habits. In the book, Junior faced three death cases related to alcohol. It is not necessarily that the drunk person is the one who passes away, it the innocent people affected by carless drunk behavior such as driving while drinking. Despite being poor, native people would spend all of the money they had to land their hands on alcoholic beverage. Obviously, alcohol is not just a drink, it is a lifestyle. The people at the reservation would involve drinking alcohol at any time of the day and at any occasion, whether it is a death or a ceremony. It is believed that drinking takes away your pain because it blackouts your feelings, and those Indians have so much difficulties going on in their lives that they want to get forget about. However, instead of dealing with these problems, alcohol counties to create more of

Many lives have brought to an end on the reservation for several of prevalent reasons such as poverty and alcoholism. Death is common and that is why the native community is accepting and adapting this fact. This is illustrated in the novel when Junior mentioned that despite his young age, he attended almost forty-two funerals. This is probably one of the biggest differences between a Native Indian and any other race. Moreover, as stated by Junior, “Each funeral was a funeral for all of us.” losses bring the entire community together. The deceased person was valuable to every individual in the tribe in and not only the close relatives. Clearly, this is because the tribe bond is one of the most appreciated values to the Native Indian community. Altogether, the Native Indian community understanding of death helped in making it as something far away from being a strange