Absolutely True Or Part-Time Indian
What does it mean to be an “absolutely true” or “part-time” Indian? This is an example of one of the questions I ask myself when looking at the cover of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. In Chapter 12 of How to Read Literature like a professor Thomas. C. Fosters explains, “Everything is a symbol.” The cover of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian foreshows the internal struggle Arnold has with being Indian in a white school.
First of all, Arnold isn’t accepted anywhere he goes. In fact, Arnolds says, “I felt like somebody had shoved me onto a rocket ship and blasted me to a new planet. I was a freaky alien and there was absolutely no way to get home.” In other words, Arnold is not accepted by his new white classmates,
First of all, Arnold isn’t accepted anywhere he goes. In fact, Arnolds says, “I felt like somebody had shoved me onto a rocket ship and blasted me to a new planet. I was a freaky alien and there was absolutely no way to get home.” In other words, Arnold is not accepted by his new white classmates,