the absolutely true diary of a part time indian review

Junior is ready to fight, but isn’t good at it, even with a feeling of preparedness.

The leader of the so-called “pack”, Roger, makes a very racist joke towards American Indians and African Americans, so Junior punches Roger in the face. One day, Junior decides that enough is enough. He was being called names by everyone bigger than him, calling him names like “Chief”. Junior was lonely and was being bullied for weeks.

In Spokane everyone knows everyone, so you can’t avoid other people on the reservation. In Reardan, not only does Junior have to deal with racism, he has to deal with his own reservation’s opinion and outlook on him. Junior’s reservation begins to resent Junior for this. Rowdy now sees a traitor in the place of his once best friend. Junior tries to get Rowdy, his best friend to go to Reardan High School as well, but Rowdy hates that school in the sense that everyone in Reardan are smarter, better, and have hope. Junior decides if he does not go now, he never will. Junior wants to change that so he decides to switch schools and goes to Reardan High (their mascot is an Indian) which is 22 miles away from Spokane. They either turn into alcoholics or are unable go anywhere because of financial situations. Like everyone else in his reservation, no one is doing much in their lives. In order to make sense of his world, he draws cartoons. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a comical novel about Arnold Spirit Jr., called Junior by his friends and family, who is a 14-year-old living in poverty with his family on the Spokane Indian reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. The Absolutely True Story of a Part-time Indian book cover.

The absolutely true diary of a part time indian review