Review Of The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian

All narrative stories include elements and ingredients along with goldilocks conditions that support thresholds of increasing complexity to create new complexities. The modern scientific origin story helps explain the thresholds of increasing complexity as it paints a picture of what was most likely to have happened at the time when the universe was being formed and the steps that were taken in order for life to exist as we know it. For example, the ingredients used were the rapid expansion and the collision of planets to create the earth which we could consider a goldilocks condition. It would then create new life which can be considered a new complex. The Absolutely True Diary Of a Part Indian Explains the thresholds holds of increasing complexities
The place is Spokane Indian reservation in Wellpinit, the protagonist of this novel is a boy named Arnold Spirit. This book illustrates his life and what was to happen in order for Arnold to succeed. Arnold is a boy born into an impecunious family and has to suffer through bullying and the effects of drugs and alcoholism throughout his family and his reservation. He is also forced into poor schooling and the effect of his condition, Hydrocephalus or as Arnold calls it on several occasions “water on the brain”. The ingredients used in this book would be the poverty-stricken reservation Arnold is forced to live in, and the attitude towards himself and his life and the poor education he is receiving at the beginning of the book. As stated by Arnold in “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,” “My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from.” (PTI. 31)The goldilocks conditions would be Arnold`s old school teacher Mr. P who saw the potential that Arnold possessed and the advice he gave to Arnold about leaving the reservation to make a better life for himself and receive a better education. In The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian, Arnold`s teacher stated,“ If you stay on the rez, Mr. P said, they're going to kill you. I'm going to kill you. We’re all going to kill you. You can't fight us forever.” (PTI. 43) The new complex would be Arnold getting accepted into Reardon, receiving a better education and unlocking his full potential by being one of the smartest kids in the school and being a star on his basketball team. As said In “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,” Arnold stated, “ I feel like this is the most important night of my life, I said. I feel like I have something to prove to the people in Reardon, the people in wellpinit, and myself.”