The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

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Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, which is based on the author s own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character s art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live.With a forward by Markus Zusak interviews with Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney Best Read The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian author Sherman Alexie For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community. Junior, a teenager on the Spokane Indian Reservation the rez , spent his entire life trying to blend in He was a smallish kid who used to have seizures He was picked on and bullied almost constantly And thensomething snapped There are all kinds of addicts, I guess We all have pain And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. Junior realized that he was going nowhere fast and the only Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community. Junior, a teenager on the Spokane Indian Reservation the rez , spent his entire life trying to blend in He was a smallish kid who used to have seizures He was picked on and bullied almost constantly And thensomething snapped There are all kinds of addicts, I guess We all have pain And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. Junior realized that he was going nowhere fast and the only way to get out was to literallyget out He transfers to an all white rural school with a lovely...Sherman Alexie s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian is a short novel labeled young adult butappropriate for adult audiences A mere 230 pages including comic sketches, Alexie details the plight of Arnold aka Junior, a 14 year old Spokane Indian living on a reservation Born with brain damage to alcoholic parents, Junior was never given a chance by anyone to succeed It did not help that in his tribe, no one left the reservation The Spokane Indians would spend their entire liv Sherman Alexie s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian is a short novel labeled young adult butappropriate for adult audiences A mere 230 pages including comic sketches, Alexie details the plight of Arnold aka Junior, a 14 year old Spokane Indian living o...2018 update with all of the women coming forward with allegations of sexual harassment from Alexie, I m no longer comfortable with the glowing review I originally wrote I still think the book is fantastic, but I don t think the same of its author, and I can t promote his writing with any enthusiasm I ll leave the original review below.______________________________I kinda got on the Sherman Alexie bandwagon, as an undergrad, when all freshmen were required to read his The Lone Ranger and Ton 2018 update with all of the women coming forward with allegations of sexual harassment from Alexie, I m no longer comfortable with the glowing review I originally wrote I still think the book is fantastic, but I don t think the same of its author, and I can t promote his writing with any enthusiasm I ll leave the original review below.______________________________I kinda got on the Sherman Alexie bandwagon, as an undergrad, when all freshmen were required to read his The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven I liked it Put it next to Plato s Republic and it was pretty damn exciting But I didn t go out and gobble up all this other books Plus I m not the hugest fan of short stories But you know me, I m a sucker for YA And for YA that everyone s been raving about And that wins the National Book Award.Here s one of my favorite things about the book almost everything that makes you laugh is also heartbreaking This i...Everyone on the rez calls me a retard about twice a day They call me a retard when they are pantsing me or stuffing my head in the toilet or just smacking me upside the head Do you know what happens to retards on the rez We get beat up At least one a month Yep, I belong to the Black Eye of the Month Club When you re 14 year old and treated like a leper.as much as being outdoors is where every kid wants to be.staying indoors feels safer So, mostly Arnold Junior Spirit hangs ou Everyone on the rez calls me a retard about twice a day They call me a retard when they are pantsing me or stuffing my head in the toilet or just smacking me upside the head Do you know what happens to retards on the rez We get beat up At least one a month Yep, I belong to the Black Eye of the Month Club When you re 14 year old and treated like a leper.as much as being outdoors is where every kid wants to be.staying indoors feels safer So, mostly Arnold Junior Spirit hangs out alone in his bedroom and reads books and dra...The best stories have truth in them Even if it s a fictional story, if it feels realistic, if you can imagine these events taking place in real life, or if it reveals you something about human nature and the world we live in along the way, then it s a golden truth It s even better if the book was shaped from the author s own living experiences Indians don t need your pity They don t want you to feel sorry for their lack of dollar bills or the aggression and racism directed their way.In fact, The best stories have truth in them Even if it s a fictional story, if it feels realistic, if you can imagine these events taking place in real life, or if it reveals you something about human nature and the world we live in along the way, then it s a golden truth It s even better if the book was shaped from the author s own living experiences Indians don t need your pity They don t want you t...This book has sort of been on my radar, and yesterday I saw it on one of my student s desk I excitedly asked him what he thought of it, and his face lit up He told me he had just finished it and repeated, It was a really good book about three times, with the most genuine smile I ve seen from this kid all year When I told him it was on my list of books I wanted to read, he handed it to me and said, take it Huh Then he showed me the sticker on the front cover that said, FREE BOOK Read a This book has sort of been on my radar, and yesterday I saw it on one of my student s desk I excitedly asked him what he thought of it, and his face lit up He told me he ...The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian is a novel by Sherman Alexie and illustrated by Ellen Forney The book won several awards, and was the first young adult fiction work by Alexie, a stand up comedian, screenwriter, film producer, and songwriter who has previously written adult novels, short stories, poems, and screenplays Alexie stated, I wrote the book because so many librarians, teachers, and teenagers kept asking The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian is a novel by Sherman Alexie and illustrated by Ellen Forney The book won several awards, and was the first young adult fiction work by Alexie, a stand up comedian, screenwriter, film producer, and songwriter who has previously written adult novels, short stories, poems, and screenplays Alexie stated, I ...Sooo what do I know about Indians aka Native Americans Well, apparently the average white American knows very little about them and, whether that s true or not, I can confirm that the average Brit knows NOTHING about them That would include me Or it would have included me before I read this book.This book was one of the biggest eye openers ever A very funny, kinda sad, eye opening experience You see, Arnold Spirit was born on an Indian reservation and raised amongst Indians and educate Sooo what do I know about Indians aka Native Americans Well, apparently the average white American knows very little about them and, whether that s true or not, I can confirm that the average Brit knows NOTHING about them That would include me Or it would have included me before I read this book.This book was one of the biggest eye openers ever A very funny, kinda sad, eye opening experience You see, Arnold Spirit was born on an Indian reservation and raised amongst Indians and educated in Indian schools and his life really just sucks Big time If the author didn t carry this story off with such witty humour, it would simply be a FML rant about poverty, death, alcoholism, abusive parents and just the sense that Hope is not even living in the same dimension as Native Americans.The fact that all the book covers for this are incredibly ...Confession time I ve been a bit of a snob when it comes to YA literature The idea that this type of writing was beneath me, not able to give me what I wanted from a story were my main excuses I m not going to say that YA fiction is ever going to replace literary adult fiction, but I will say that it has opened my eyes THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART TIME INDIAN is a magnificent read The story centers around Junior, a Spokane Indian, and his family who live on a reservation To be hone Confession time I ve been a bit of a snob when it comes to YA literature The idea that this type of writing was beneath me, not able to give me what I wanted from a story were my main excuses I m not going to say that YA fiction is ever going to replace literary adult fiction, but I will say that it has opened my eyes THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART TIME INDIAN is a magnificent read The story centers around Junior, a Spokane Indian, and his family who live on a reservation To be honest, I was leery coming into this book I had read FLIGHT and RESERVATION BLUES and INDIAN KILLER and THE LONE RANGER AND TONTO FISTFIGHT IN HEAVEN, and I was expecting little from t...Funny, poignant and heartbreaking, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part time Indian turned out to be an amazing read.Dealing with hydrocephalus, poverty, constant bullying and frequent deaths in a family of drunks, Arnold aka Junior goes through an undeniably hard life growing up in the Spokane Indian Reservation The journey of this 14 year old trying to manifest his dreams into reality by shifting to an all white school, after alienating his bestfriend and the entire community and gearing up to Funny, poignant and heartbreaking, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part time Indian turned out to be an amazing read.Dealing with hydrocephalus, poverty, constant bullying and frequent deaths in a family of drunks, Arnold aka Junior goes through an undeniably hard life growing up in the Spokan...

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
  • English
  • 12 May 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 230 pages
  • 0316013684
  • Sherman Alexie
  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian