Junior s change （Part-time indian）

Junior’s changes Today, most people in Canada have very high quality of life. Most of us are middle class or higher. But can you think of the life of an aboriginal people in the same country with us? The main character of the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Junior, is a aboriginal person who lives in a reservation. At the beginning of the story, he was the same with all the other indian kids who have no hope and no future. But in the end, he became a hopeful kid with bright future. Between this big change, a lot of things influenced Junior. Junior’s best friend rowdy, junior’s family and basketball has changed him and let him be a successful person in the future. First, Junior’s best and only friend on the reservation, Rowdy, has unconsciously influence Junior since they are young. Rowdy is a very tough guy, he always protect junior from other kids. In the beginning of the story, in a powwow dance, Junior is been hit by two brothers, Rowdy cut the brothers’ braids in seconds.(Sherman 17) This made Junior totally rely on Rowdy at first, and made him are not just getting beaten up. Kids learn from each others, because Rowdy is a good fighter, Junior knows how to fight in subconscious, some day he will stand up and fight for himself. Also because Rowdy loves basketball, Junior loves it too. (179) On the end of the book, junior tells us a story about when Rowdy and him was young, they found a big and beautiful tree. Rowdy forced junior to climb that tree and then they saw the whole reservation on the top.(225) Junior never thought they can made it to the top before they actually are, with out Rowdy he is never going to take a try. Rowdy led Junior to the top of the reservation and taught Junior how to be brave and not scare of the challenge. Rowdy’s behavior influence Junior since they are young and he let Junior know he can do any thing if he try it hard enough.