Belonging to a broad genre of Bildungsroman and a less broad literary form known as fictional diary, Sherman Alexie's young-adult novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007) explores…. From this passage, we get a sense of the extent of the hopelessness on the rez. Since he can't chalk this "failure" up to Mary's personal failings, Junior finds it emblematic of a social reality in which Indians don't have the kinds of opportunities that white kids take for granted. Mom Junior s mother. Poor people are cut off from the resources that foster social mobility (like education, healthcare, loans, etc. ) Inproceedings{Alexie2009TheAT, title={The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian}, author={Sherman Alexie}, year={2009}}.
Representation of native american in the novel the absolutely true diary of a part-time indian. Junior is devastated, and blames himself for her death she moved to Montana right after he decided to leave the reservation, and might never have left home if he hadn t done it first. IDENTITY, BELONGING, AND COMING- OF-AGE Junior is hyper-conscious of his place within any social group. Chapter 4 - Because Geometry Is Not a Country Somewhere Near France. The same thing is true for his sister, Mary, who had plans and potential when she was in high school, but gave up and began living in her parents basement a kind of symbolic burial. On his first day of high school at Wellpinit (the school on the reservation), Junior is particularly excited for geometry class. CONFESSIONS, REVENGE, AND FORGIVENESS Confessions, revenge, and forgiveness are central to the plot of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Dad s pride in Junior is very important to him. In the team s first game against Wellpinit, Rowdy gives Junior a concussion, sparking a thirst for revenge that drives Junior to humiliate him in turn later in the season only to realize, after a crushing Reardan victory, that perhaps he shouldn t be so proud given Reardan s advantages. Junior, Penelope has big dreams and wants to leave the place where she came from, although some of her dreams are so grandiose that Junior finds them a little silly.
Smoke Signals, the movie he wrote and co-produced, won the Audience Award and Filmmakers Trophy at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. However, word gets around about his plan and three boys jump him in masks. Eugene Dad s best friend, who drinks constantly, rides a motorcycle, and works as an EMT for the tribal clinic. Dawn Junior s first crush, an Indian girl from Wellpinit. We've scoured the Internet for the very best videos on The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, from high-quality videos summaries to interviews or commentary by Sherman Alexie. Rowdy doesn t apologize for everything he s said and done, but he does tell Junior that he always knew he would leave the reservation, and that he looks forward to Junior s travels and is happy for him.
Didn t go to college, didn t get a job. Chapter 12 - Slouching Toward Thanksgiving. Rowdy gets revenge by cutting off their braids when they are passed out. Leaving the Reservation: Reconstructing Identity in Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. HOPE, DREAMS, AND LOSS It may seem contradictory to include hope, dreams, and loss in the same category, but in fact, in Junior s experience, they re very closely connected. In his double life in Reardan and on the reservation, he feels like a magician slicing himself in half, with Junior living on the north side of the river and Arnold living on the south. When she suddenly gets married, moves to Montana, and begins writing a memoir, her life seems to be unfolding like something out of one of her stories until she dies in a tragic, senseless accident, suggesting that the possibility of a better life might sometimes be just a fantasy and that the connection between books and life cannot be so straightforward. Meanwhile, tragic events such as Junior s sister Mary s death have darkly comedic elements, and Junior s ability to address topics like bullying, poverty and racism with humor is a key characteristic of his voice.
Sometimes they are integrated seamlessly with the written narrative, providing dialogue or visual information that isn t shown elsewhere; for instance, the moment when Junior throws his geometry book and breaks Mr. s nose is shown in a picture rather than told in a sentence, as if Junior s feelings are too strong to articulate in words. He punches Junior in the face, screams that he hates him, and walks away. Mom Character Timeline in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Gordy Junior s friend and the class genius at the Reardan school, who loves computers and books. P, who is white, has lived and taught on the reservation for many years, and confesses to Junior that he used to be part of a cruel education system designed to kill the Indian to save the child, for which he now feels he needs to atone. Stereotypes of Native Americans. Both Junior and Mary whose nickname, Mary Runs Away, foreshadows her decision to leave attempt to do this, although Mary s death just after she d begun to have hope again becomes yet another illustration of lost dreams and opportunities. In a similar way, his older sister Mary once dreamed of writing romance novels; Junior sees it as tragic that she gives up on those dreams after she graduates high school.
These icons make it easy to track where the themes occur most prominently throughout the work. THEMES In LitCharts literature guides, each theme gets its own colorcoded icon. While Junior wonders why Ted has chosen his grandmother's funeral for this confession, Ted explains that he learned from an anthropologist that the outfit... (full context). When Mrs. Jeremy makes a snide comment about Junior s frequent absences many of which have been due to funerals and wakes Gordy leads the class in a demonstration of defiance against her. UNCONSCIOUS STATES: A NOVEL. Reservation and hope as two opposing forces in Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part- Time Indian. MINOR CHARACTERS The Andruss Brothers Thirty-year-old triplets who beat Junior up when he and Rowdy go to the powwow. All of these elements contribute to what Junior portrays, and his teacher Mr. P. describes, as a culture of depression, defeat, and hopelessness on the reservation, and they are what Junior tries to escape when he leaves for Reardan. Mr. P comes to visit him and tells Junior he forgives him, but advises him that he must leave the reservation. Because of Mr. P s advice, Junior decides to transfer to the high school in Reardan, a wealthy white farm town twenty-two miles away. In the book, following one s dreams, finding a place where hope can thrive, means leaving the reservation. Rowdy's advice is helpful in that it keeps Junior from doing anything rash and regrettable, and it also shows that the two know each other very well and care for each other. He sees his sister as having the personal qualities (smart, pretty, strong, funny) that might allow her to escape the reservation, but she doesn't.
Basketballness of Me. My parents came from poor people who came from poor people who came from poor people, all the way back to the very first poor people. Rather, they are presented as the simple and brutal realities of Junior s life, and the lives of all the Indians around him.
This underscores Junior's sense that the Indians living in poverty have few ways to make a better life. Earl Penelope s father, a racist who warns Junior that he will disown Penelope if Junior gets her pregnant. When he compares his cartoons to lifeboats, he indicates that they have the potential to save him from the despair around him, and even from the fates of his family and peers. However, his command of language and his humor let us know that this is something he seems to have mostly overcome, despite its lingering effects on his appearance. P is one of many weird and lonely characters in the novel, such as Mary, Junior, and Gordy, and is known in Wellpinit for frequently falling asleep and forgetting to come to school. But the element of loss in hope is much stronger for Junior, whose decision to leave is seen as a betrayal by his friend Rowdy and many other members of the reservation community. Gradually, though, Junior makes friends with some of his new classmates, including Gordy, a genius who teaches him how to really read books; Penelope, a beautiful, popular blond girl who becomes Junior s semi-girlfriend after he discovers her eating disorder and lets her cry on his shoulder; and Roger, a star athlete who encourages Junior to join the basketball team. ArtGlobal Language Review. From this opening passage we know that Junior is someone who considers an important characteristic of himself that he is different from others weird, even and also that he understands himself to be someone who is able to overcome hardship, even against great odds. Nevertheless, as Junior arrives for his very first day at Wellpinit High School…. Thesis: English Letters Department, Faculty of Adab and…. I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats. ) Someone throws a quarter at him which hits him in the head while he's checking in for his first time playing with them. Rowdy always protects Junior, though, and the two boys share a special bond, telling each other their secrets and dreams.
She is very happy there until she dies in an accidental fire started while she was drunk. Though he is often lonely and thinks of himself as weak, invisible, and unable to fight back physically, other characters recognize him as a warrior, a smart, brave, and highly committed person who has been fighting since [he was] born to keep his hope despite the oppressive, depressing atmosphere of the reservation. Roger, the Reardan student who greets Junior in the schoolyard with a horribly racist joke, becomes a kind friend and role model; Rowdy is both Junior s best friend and his worst enemy, and hates him because he loves him so much. On his first day of class, Junior meets Penelope who will become his girlfriend later on. Bobby Eugene s friend, who mistakenly kills him in a drunken argument. It makes sense that Junior is a good student and a dedicated cartoonist, because his precision with words shows that he is someone who wants to communicate his experiences to others. Roger A star basketball and football player and a popular senior at Reardan High School. Luna Remembers: Sensing contemporary Native American realities in James Luna's performance Native Stories: For Fun, Profit & Guilt.
Junior ties this poverty in with race, too. To Junior, Grandmother s greatest gift is tolerance, part of an oldtime-indian spirit that celebrates weirdness rather than fearing it and approaches new people and experiences with a fair and open mind. My hopes and dreams floated up in a mushroom cloud. Once in jail, Bobby is so overwhelmed with guilt that he hangs himself with a bedsheet; Junior says that Eugene s loved ones didn t even have enough time to forgive Bobby. Here, racism and poverty are presented as psychological obstacles in addition to being material ones. He also loves playing basketball, discovering he has unexpected talent when he joins the Reardan team and 2017 LitCharts LLC v. 006 Page 2. receives the support of his coach and teammates. Symbols appear in blue text throughout the Summary and Analysis sections of this LitChart. He lives in Seattle, Washington, with his wife and two sons.
And a cartoon inserted after Mr. P tells Junior to leave the reservation shows Junior standing by a road sign, beginning a journey from Home toward Hope and??? And because you re Indian you start believing you re destined to be poor. Rowdy gets into an accident and embarrasses himself. And then the minerals sort of take the place of the wood and the glue. Gerald The drunk driver who strikes and kills Grandmother Spirit as she is walking home from a powwow. Chapter 14 – Thanksgiving.
In this way, their relationship plays into the theme of overlapping opposites, and parallels Junior s sense of being a person split in two. Even so, when Junior lists the people he will always love and miss, he includes Rowdy, his reservation, and his tribe as well as his loved ones who have died a telling indication that in some ways, following his hopes and dreams ultimately means the loss of his friends, his family, and his home. However, Junior has developed a strategy for keeping himself from being consumed by his environment: making cartoons. In addition to his awareness of what it means to be white versus what it means to be Indian, he worries about how to be a man (when men can cry, when boys have to stop holding hands with their friends) and how to fit in as a freak who is bullied by his peers and even by some adults. RACISM, POVERTY, AND ALCOHOLISM I m fourteen years old and I ve been to forty-two funerals, says Junior after losing three loved ones in alcohol-related accidents. He was born hydrocephalic and suffered from seizures as a child, leading him to spend most of his time reading. BASKETBALL For Junior, who has grown up knowing that his race and his poverty, not to mention his physical disability, have put him at a disadvantage in the world being, as he puts it, a loser Indian son living in a world built for winners basketball represents a much fairer, meritocratic system in which everyone starts off equally and people succeed thanks to their own hard work and skill. He ll still be an Indian, sort of, but only in body, just as the tree is only a tree in shape; the integral things that make him Indian will be gone.
And let me tell you, that old, old, old, decrepit geometry book hit my heart with the force of a nuclear bomb. After this incident, Gordy becomes friends with Junior during class time by sticking up for him against Roger's racism towards Native Americans like himself.
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