Part-Time Indian Movie Vs Book

The book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is about a boy named Arnold Spirit who is trying to find his way in his new school and his life. The movie Smoke Signals is about two young men named Thomas and Victor who travel all over the place to go to Arizona to go pick up Victor's dad ashes. First thing I'm going to talk about is alcoholism and abusement, second will be friendship, and third about how both of the boys love to play basketball.
My first topic is about the movie and the book have in common is alcoholism and abusement. In the book Arnold dad drinks and is usually sober, but he is not abusive towards Arnold. Then Arnold’s friend Rowdy's dad drinks and beats on Rowdy and his mother.That’s the reason why Rowdy is so mean to people and beats them up. In the movie Victor's dad is abusive and beats up on his mother and him as well that’s why Victor has anger issues. The difference is how the book and the movie takes the alcoholism and abusement in their life's. In the movie Victor takes the alcoholism and abusement seriously and he holds on to his past, now in the book Rowdy takes his dad beating harshly to other and then let's it go and acts like nothing happened.
Second topic is about

Friendship plays a big part in the movie and in the book. This is a good topic to discuss because they both had some issues with each of their friendships. Both had times when they fell apart but they had a special connection to bring them back together and work things out. At one moment in the book Rowdy was not speaking to Arnold because he decided to move to an all white school, that ended their friendship. At the end of the book when it was summer time Rowdy came to Arnold’s house and put all their issues behind them and started their friendship over.
Victor and Thomas had some issues too, the reason why they had issues was because Thomas thinks that Victor’s dad was an a amazing guy because he saved his life from the burning house when he was a baby. But Victor does not see his dad in the way Thomas does and he hates it when Thomas brings his name up or have stories about him. Later in the movie Victor understood why Thomas always talks about his dad in that way. It was because Thomas did not have a dad in his life. In the movie Victor does not really care for a friendship he is more of a person who is Independent about his issues. The book Junior is really concerned about his relationship with Rowdy and he does not want anything to ruin it .
Three topic is about both of the boys love playing basketball.Arnold signed up for basketball at Reardan.

He was contemplating trying out for the basketball team but is not sure he can cut it. His coach made him do some drills and he saw potential in him. The coach said that he was the best shooter he has ever seen and ends up making varsity. Victor plays basketball to escape the real world and to relax himself. He usually played it with his father and that was their special bonding moment between them. The difference in the book and the movie is that basketball is a huge impact on Arnold life not so much of Victor. The reason being is that Victor doesn't really play that much because his father left him and he only at the community center with his

friends.
In conclusion alcoholism, abusement, friendship and playing basketball is what teenager face in life. I think all of these topics are critically important on a young adolescent to a young teens life. Friendship is important in today’s society without being friendly you don’t get the opportunity to meet new people and make amazing friends. Basketball can help with that special bond with people which help you make new friends. Sometimes it help you become a better person and make you want to keep playing basketball. A alcoholism problem that can lead to abusement unfortunately that happen both in the movie and in the book. Drinking is not good at all,it can cause many bad things to happen in your life and make your life bad . You could have something good and just by drinking it can all become bad.