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

INTRODUCTION
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, is a novel written by Sherman Alexie and it is for young adults. The illustrator of the novel is Ellen Forney and the novel is referred as a first person narrative by who we know as Junior the main character in the novel, his real name is Arnold Spirit, a Narrative American teenager at the age of 14 years who likes drawing cartoons because he simply believes that is the only thing that he is good at. Arnold grows up under difficult circumstances that is too much for someone at his age to handle nor adapt to and live with them. His family including the community he grows in is very poor, their lives simply depends on alcohol since alcohol is regarded as the most important thing to
This young boy was born with water in his brain, had to do a surgery and he survived though he was not being expected to. This lead in him having brain damages during the operation. The boy is too skinny, I think he suffering from malnutrition since they don’t eat healthy, and he wears big, ugly plastic eyeglasses, he is having a big head, hands and feet. He cannot speak clearly hence he has stutter and
Arnold also vows that he does not like the Indians who attend the powwow because they gets into fights everytime when they are drunk. There is also the cruelest triplets who make fun of Junior and beat him up, and Rowdy pays a revenge for his friend. I came to see that Indians handle things differently than other people, this is proven when Arnold attack Roger a white boy, he did not attack him back though he respected him. This shows the different in cultures or is the way we are being raised or the environment we are growing up in. Indians believes that the only solution for a problem is to attack one