The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

In, the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is one of the most high-quality accounts. Alex examines life experience in the hopeful and bleak way. The article covers a narration of a fourteen-years-old Arnold Spirit representing Alexi's life as an Indian raised in the WellPoint, WA. Arnold Spirit from the first come across appears to be funny and artistic as portrayed via the evidence that dots the page. The protagonist is hydrocephalic which makes him receive treatment as an outcast translating to a number of challenges on his side. He abandons the reserve and goes to a white school which is situated about twenty-two mile away in Reardan. He is caught between two special worlds prompting him to adjust to the new identity that dominates the all story.

In the opening statement of the story Arnold, who is also known as Junior has the feeling of being an outcast when staying among the Indian, but with time he transforms into a basketball champion after his admission in a white school, his life turns from a zero point to a well-respected hero. Despite the uplift in his life, the journey to his new identity was achieved through hardships, when he went to the Reardon, he figures himself as having unique characteristics. During his life, he underwent different struggles to reconcile the various selves by learning to view himself as a single person apart from the known Arnold the traitor or Junior the Indian. Arnold has the notion of belonging to different tribes which become fundamental in resolving the split personality crisis as well as formulating a meaningful form of identity that is of less restrictive (Alexis 30). Despite the factor that he came from a poor background perform well in his studies.

The author applies different literary styles to express the challenges that Arnold undergoes throughout in the story. Some of the devices that are employed by the writer comprise the use of symbols. For example, the death of juniors little dog Oscar symbolizes the senseless destruction of life. The father to junior shoots the dog on the ground that he does not have enough money to cater for the veterinary expenses (Alexis 15). The turning out of event also symbolizes the height of poverty facing the Indians living in the reserves. Through the story, some of the items such as the basketball are applied to signify the power of having a positive thinking in the lead character, whereby his identity turn around after participation in the game which makes him the best player earning him respect from other people. Also, the pine tree in the story is used to symbolize the levels that Arnold was supposed to attain after leaving the reserve. He becomes a basketball star after joining the white school, which hence his thinking to view himself from a different perspective as an essential person in the community.

The setting of the story takes place in WellPinit and Reardon. It is from the WA that Arnold witness different kinds of self-identity. There is a contrast between the location first is a display of an impoverished Indian reserve while the other one area is occupied by the whites living in high class live. Arnold stays with his family member where he is also known as Junior in WellPinit WA. He experiences a hard life while on the reserve as he is treated like an outcast because of his health conditions. Poverty is the order of the day, and the authors comment that poverty only teaches on how to be poor (Alexis), as a result of the high level of poverty other social evils come with it such as alcoholism. On the other side life in the Readan is entirely different and is the driving force behind Arnold high achievement such as the best basketball player that enable him to changes his identity. He describes the location as full of racism and people do not seem to have significant ideas. However, it gives a concise environment for him to discover his strengths. The description is in the first person or from the narrator's point of view permitting the reader to have a connection directly with the characters. When a reader goes through the story, she or he is in the position to converses with style and experience their felling. The narration assists the reader to experience everything Arnold goes through until he achieves the new identity.

Prompt 2

The artwork that is displayed in the entirely novel is in harmony with Alexi’s ability to relate the different themes contained in the article such as racism, poverty, suffering, and identity. The illustration outlines the comical insight into the experience of Arnold. The authors use various drawing pictures such as the cartons, scribbled among other that resemble a more realistic finished looks. For example, in the first picture is the scratched which reveal the shattered life of Arnold in the Indian reserves because of discrimination and poverty (Alexie 1). It also shows his previous identity of a boy who was on the brink of losing hope in life in conjunction with the theme of poverty and suffering. The author uses the child-like doodle –art to demonstrate the inner thoughts of the narrator in specific the pains he undergoes through. Arnold goes through hardship to gain acceptance in the two worlds he lived in, showing that the art is a source of solace and way of expressing himself. The themes of rejection are well depicted by the pictures with a drawing illustrating the insult he frequently endures as his schoolmates tease him due to his physical impairment. In additional other drawing rotates around the matter of alcoholism, child abuse, and death which are some of the themes captured in the account. While reading the book, it is easy to identify the relationship between the subject and the doodles throughout the book. Throughout the story, the artwork keeps on changing depending on Arnold's mood and circumstance. At some point the drawing aim at bridging the awkward state of Junior's consciousness as he faces two different worlds. According to Arnold, the drawing plays a significant role as their connect everyone in the world and want other people to understand his feeling about the situation as well as the challenges faced by the community. Arnold those not use words to express his suffering instead he uses the technique of pictures that go hand in hand with his feeling to pass the message.

To add on, the drawing also reveals that Arnold is maturing with time, for example, the scribbled comics and illustration are suggestive that Arnold may be writing down his thoughts. Furthermore, there are other many realistic images of cartoons like the annotated portraits of his immediate family demonstrating that he is giving more idea to whatever he is doing. In the first place he just scribbled anything that comes to his mind but the portrait there is much thought and concentration (Alexie 1). A more mature reflection is displayed when he develops ideas before writing them down on the paper. The pencil works show drawing that is more realistic and needs more time, regarding concentration and focus on the subject matter being drawn. It is from such thoughts that reveals to us the level of maturity and the power to organize information in an orderly manner. Arnold creates a good time for those people specifically the pencil sketches of his friend like the Penelope. Being the position to produce images that are apparently in his different drawing illustrate that he has changed and found acceptance in the society. He has grown enough to find ways of spending time with people he considers most important emotionally. For example, the portrait of Eugene who is on a motorbike shows that he could not have enough physical contact with him because it is drawn from a photograph.

Prompt 3

Throughout the story, the central theme is identity, which is illustrated by the various struggle Arnold undergoes through. In the reserves, he did not find acceptance which forced him to move to Reardan. The theme of identity is supported by different subthemes such as poverty, rejection, and education. The idea of rejection has been well brought out in the story since Arnold finds it quite difficult to be incorporated in the in the Indian reserves. Most of the time he is bullied and ridiculed by children of his age who feel that his condition makes him inferior (Alexie 4). There are one of the critical factors that make him move to a new location to seek his new life and identity as he is rejected by his community. The new environment enables him to emerge as a champion in the basketball. On the same note, the Indian population also faces rejection from the whites because of their failure to associate with people who are poor and coming from a different race. Another subtheme is poverty that plays an essential role in the underlying the theme of identity in the story. People living in reserve are poor for example Arnold fathers kill the little dog because of the fear of expenses. Few children from the reserve attend white schools, with a huge number of the people involved in alcoholism, death, and despair. To illustrate this theme the grandmother to Arnold and his sister die because of poverty that affects the whole community. Despite these challenges he keeps on fighting for a better life and things changes dramatically. The subtheme of education is also shown well which build from the identity themes as illustrated by Arnold who is forced to travel for over two miles to be able to attain quality education in the white school. The white education centre is well equipped for quality learning, games courts, and computer labs. It from this school that assists Arnold to acquire mixed identity which enables him to associate with people of different backgrounds.

The author makes the use of a symbol to pass across different subthemes in the story. Reardan School symbolizes the quality education because it loaded with advanced equipment such as the chemistry labs and computer rooms. Arnold goes to this school to acquire knowledge, and he excels showing that quality education can uplift individual's life. Alcohol symbolizes poverty on the Indian reservation people since most of them have become hopeless finding solace in the drink. Arnold's family is used symbolically to represent poverty that affects the entire community living on the Indian reserves. Lastly, Arnold symbolizes a rejected community of the Indians who are forced to live in deplorable condition of life in the reserved areas.

Works Cited

Alexie, S. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. New York, NY: Little." Brown and Company (2007).