There is two type of role models. The one that you look up to and the second type is the role model that you want to learn from and do the total opposite of that person. In the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. The main character is Arnold Spirit Jr. who goes by the name ( Junior) . It is based on Sherman Alexie childhood but mostly his life in high school. Junior is a role model but in his own way , his actions show qualities of what would be called a bad role model, but his actions afterwards show otherwise. He is a young man who has a huge heart who is a good role model, Because he has control, preserves ,and he cares about others, but the strongest qualities out of all are he has hope, unlike …show more content…
The only difference between them that determines who is a role model you want to look up to, or a role model you want to be the total opposite of that person, is Junior doesn't give up, where Rowdy has. One of the qualities that prove he doesn't give up is he has control, shown in this quote “... I wanted to punch my dad in the face.I wanted to punch him in the nose and make him bleed..” ( Sherman,11). I picked this quote to show that Junior has control. One reason is he had a dog named oscar who was his best friend but he was so sick just in pain, Junior try to do about everything he could, to save his second best friend, he asked his mom to take him to the vet, but his family was too poor . Instead, his parents decided to do the easier route, without discussing with Junior first, they decided to bring out Junior farther rifle instead. Because the vet cost 10 times more than a bullet, that was only two cents. Junior knew what was happening, but didn't want to admit he was about to lose his best friend. When Junior father, asked him to carry occur outside, Junior fought him on it, tail his father demanded. Junior finally sat Occur down under the tree in the backyard then he softly said: “ I Love you Occur” (Sherman,10) and ran away from the scene because ,he couldn't watch what was …show more content…
Junior Started his new school, but it wasn't easy for him in a new place, new rules, new people everything was just new for him, but that doesn't stop him, from being a good role model. The third quality that Junior has, that shows he someone to look up to is, he cares for others. After a normal day of everything being all still very new, he went to the bathroom, he was hearing funny sounds, through the air vent of the other room that was the girl bathroom he heard “ AEGGHHHHHSSS it sounded like somebody is vomiting Nope. It sounded like 747 is landing on a runway of vomit” ( Sherman,105 ). After waiting in the hallway to see who the sound was coming from. He found out it was a girl in his class named Penelope, who he found out was, bulimia. Instead of walking away like nothing happen like she wanted, instead, he lifted her confidence, when he said: “ Don’t give up”(Sherman,103). That one little thing, just like that change his world, he started making friends and slowly getting a girlfriend that is Penelope, he got good grades and even sign up for
Sherman Alexie began his literary career writing poetry and short stories, being recognized for his examination of the Native American (Hunter 1). Written after reading media coverage of an actual execution in the state of Washington, Sherman Alexie’s poem Capital Punishment tells the story of an Indian man on death row waiting for his execution. The poem is told in the third person by the cook preparing the last meal as he recalls the many final meals he has prepared over the years. In addition to the Indian currently awaiting his death, the cook speaks of a black man who was electrocuted and lived to tell about it, only to be sent back to the chair an hour later to be killed again. He also recalls many of the meals he had prepared had been for dark-skinned men convicted of killing white people. The thought of racial discrimination in capital punishment seems to be the theme at first glance, but reading further indicates differently. The cook also ponders his own survival in the prison system as an inmate. Learning to cook and outlasting all the others before him, whether by age or fate, allowed him the opportunity to create food filled with love for the one that will die. After this final meal has been prepared by the cook for the condemned inmate to eat, fear and anticipation takes over his body. Just as proper temperature is needed for cooking, a proper amount of electricity is needed to operate the electric chair and this need creates a dimming and flickering effect in the prison reminding all those left behind of their possible fate:
Junior was born in a desperate, hopeless place. His parents and community were withering in despair. However, Junior did not choose to languish like the rest of his community; he boldly left his comfort zone for a better education—facing obstacles from losing
Sherman Alexie has made a name for himself as a prolific contemporary Native American writer, taking inspiration from his own past and experiences with modern Indian life. While there are many enduring themes throughout Alexie's writings: Native identity, modern reservation life, alcohol abuse etc. when it comes to his collection War Dances, the most apparent motif is fatherhood. Community and family are the heart of Native American cultures, with the father archetype holding great honor and expectation. However with alcohol abuse, poverty, and school drop rates running rampant through Native American reservations it is no surprise that more and more Native children are growing up in broken homes. In an alarming poll by the Kids Count Data Center, a national census, in 2011 out of 355,000 polled 53% live in single-parent homes. The lack of a leader, a strong male role model is a major factor in many of the abysmal statistics facing modern reservation children. The despotism of Native American culture has always been based on the deprivation of power, status, equality, and home. This presents a paucity of male dominance, many of these men feel helpless in a society where they have no real identity. They are forced to live in the idea they have no personal potential so it is understandable why the majority of Indian males may feel inadequate and unable to care for their families. Alexie himself struggled in a home with an alcoholic and neglectful father, and like many Native children he almost gave into a similar chain of abuse and alcoholism. This is what inspires him to write, to expose the corroding inner workings of the modern Native peoples brought on by centuries of autocracy. Oppression and the idea of fatherhood is a common ...
“Indian Education” is a short summary of Sherman Alexie’s journey through his school years until high school graduation, he used Junior as his character of this journey. Alexie was born on the Spokane Reservation in Washington to a poor family with three siblings (Sherman Alexie biography, 2010). The family rarely even had food to eat, and a bright educational future was not expected on the reservation. Those who lived on the reservation were normally looked at as not being social, nor sophisticated during the time Alexie lived there. Alexie went against the odds and learned to read at a young age since he was house bound for a while due to his medical complications (Sherman Alexie biography, 2010). Alexie is an advocate for education
Although Junior is very young, has the ability to give advices like an adult. He knows that if he lies, he can get what he wants. The first paragraph opens up with him telling her mother he is sick. Even though her mother knows he is lying, he is stuck with his story until finally she accedes to let him stay at home. Junior is a persistent boy. He is clever. His way of gaining a woman overall, depends on where does she comes
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
America is perceived as a powerful nation based on the fundamental rights and protection of all people, but, for some, it seems less like a reality than an unrealistic fantasy. For those who fall underneath the description of the "minority", it seems to be an ever continuos battle for basic freedoms. The country as a whole seems in constant fear of attack from foreign and domestic sources. With threats of war constantly teetering over our head and violent social conflicts, it leaves the country in an era of distrust and maelstrom.
Sherman Alexie’s Indian Education focuses his attention on three main points and uses character, setting, and ambiguity to write his story. Alexie focuses on one main character, himself, while also focusing on the setting of his school off the reservation. He uses ambiguity to make his story complex and gives a broad spectrum of meaning for his words, which flows perfectly throughout his story. The story showcases each grade of Alexie’s school life and explains the challenges he had to face through life while attending school, which was not common where he was from.
Nonetheless, out of the greater part of his family, companions, and foes, there are just two principle good examples that have influenced Junior's life until the end of time. The main good example for Junior is Mr. P, who was Junior's instructor back when he went to the reservation's school, Wellpinit. Mr. P is the character that opens Junior's eyes up to the extraordinary destitution that is on the reservation and urges Junior to develop the boldness to leave the "rez" and to proceed onward to the real world. After Junior's suspension from Wellpinit, and in the wake of hitting Mr. P with a book, Mr. P visits Junior. Mr. P discloses to Junior what might happen if he somehow happened to remain on the reservation, and advises Junior to go to an alternative school, far from Wellpinit. Junior begins to address Mr. P's judgment on the issue, and asks, "Where is trust? Who has trust?" Mr. P placidly answers to Junior and says, "Child, you will discover increasingly trust the more remote and more distant you leave this miserable, pitiful, tragic reservation." (43, Alexie) If Junior did not have Mr. P as an instructor and a companion, he would not have left Wellpinit and would have been left "kicking the bucket" in the reservation. The second good example for the storyteller, Junior, is his own one of a kind grandma. In The Totally Genuine Journal of Low
Adjusting to another culture is a difficult concept, especially for children in their school classrooms. In Sherman Alexie’s, “Indian Education,” he discusses the different stages of a Native Americans childhood compared to his white counterparts. He is describing the schooling of a child, Victor, in an American Indian reservation, grade by grade. He uses a few different examples of satire and irony, in which could be viewed in completely different ways, expressing different feelings to the reader. Racism and bullying are both present throughout this essay between Indians and Americans. The Indian Americans have the stereotype of being unsuccessful and always being those that are left behind. Through Alexie’s negativity and humor in his essay, it is evident that he faces many issues and is very frustrated growing up as an American Indian. Growing up, Alexie faces discrimination from white people, who he portrays as evil in every way, to show that his childhood was filled with anger, fear, and sorrow.
5The short story “Indian Education” is written by Sherman Alexie. The story is a great example of a writing piece that follows our theme of “life passages” in our class. The literacy elements of plot and theme help advance the idea of “life passages.” Furthermore, “Indian Education” is a short but powerful writing piece that reveals the true nature of how society portrays Native Americans. 5This is indicative of the author’s experience of discrimination and negative stigma he encounters from being in school due to the nature of his nationality, native American. 5
“Because I got to hold hands with Penelope and kiss her […] all of the other boys in school decided that I was a major stud. Even the teachers started paying more attention to me. I was mysterious” (Alexie 110-111). Through this passage, Sherman Alexie highlights the importance of peer and community relationships in the process of forming an
We all need a few role models to light up the right path for us, a good role model illustrate good behavior and skills for people to emulate. Learning more from Vujicic helped me understand better how to appreciate what I have. Decent role models can easily be found around us, they could be your family members, your neighbor, your professor, your boss, and even the homeless person you passed by everyday on your way back home. They do not necessarily have to be a famous person, they could be anyone that you admire, you respect, and you look up upon. I have always believed that good role models could influence us in many good ways; they help shaped us into a better person. Do you have a list of role models that you admire? Do you have a role model who encourage and motivate you when you are miserable or lost?
Role models have an astounding effect on the lives of young people in our society. A role model has the ability to shape the views, ideals, and actions of a young person. Role models help youth to discover how they wish to become in the future. The influence that role models have over young people is tremendous. It is important for role models to be positive and responsible in instilling good morals and values because future generations are directly dependent on the role models of today. By examining the influence of role models, role models in the community, and role models in the media, we will be able to determine the true effect that role models have on the lives of youth.
Many of us have role models in our lives and to most people role models are athletes and movie stars, but to me a role model is much more. To me a role model is a person who has positively influenced someone in life, and is not a person filled with selfishness and greed. They help shape someone’s personality, and characteristics. They are people who someone can look up to for advice in a hard situation, and know that they will give those words of wisdom. They will never judge our past actions, instead only look to help because they really care. A role model is someone who we should never feel awkward talking to about our problems. A perfect role model for me is my mother. She is a wonderful human being. She’s smart, wise, ambitious, patient and such a loving person. There are no words that can describe my gratitude towards her, but through this essay I will describe some of her characteristics that makes her my role model.