Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time Indian Analysis

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Essay on Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, Sherman Alexie uses location and more specifically Arnold's school as a way to distinguish the difference between the poor and the rich. Approximately 56.2 million acres of U.S land is occupied or held in trust by Indian reservations. You would assume that our government puts appropriate effort to maintain economic security for the people living in these reservations; Not only because the enormous amount of land they occupy but because of the brutal history of the two (U.S government and Indian Americans). But that is false, 28.3% of American Indians live in poverty by far the most of any single race in the U.S. The startling truth of …show more content…

Once his parents realize that the dog wasn’t getting any better they had to shoot it so they could take it out of its pain. Arnold was furious he wasn’t angry at his parents “But I can’t blame my parents for our poverty because my mother and father are the twins suns around which I orbit and my world would EXPLODE without them” (Alexie 10). He was angry that he was poor and he couldn’t do anything. Arnold knew he had to get out of Wellpinit, he loved the people and the culture but the quality of life was terrible and he couldn’t be another statistic …show more content…

After a talking with his grandmother and parents he decides to go to Rearden. Obviously it was a big change. It seemed like Arnold would always be an outcast and pushed around. One day he finally decided to stand up to his bully Roger, He punched him in front of his friends “I didn’t know what to say I just stood there red and mute like a stop sign.” (Alexie 56) This event serves as a catalyst for Arnold’s life. He gets a girlfriend he could never imagine getting, friends that accept him for who he is and life is going well for a while. He begins to lose the people closest to him thanks to the same reasons why he left the res. To his surprise the res chooses to support him during this time instead of shunning him showing him they still care about him. Arnold still had a obligation to his basketball team, thanks to all the support he had been feeling from his peers and coach he had gotten as good as he ever had in basketball. In the most important game that decided the fate of the season Arnold’s team crushed Wellpinit, he thought he’d feel good about it but he didn’t he felt terrible. Arnold realizes he doesn’t have to hate where he comes from and he should appreciate and love his home and culture in all its

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