Sunday, March 29, 2015

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian Blog

     The Novel " The True Diary of a Part Time Indian" talks about a 14 year old boy named Junior, who desperately tries to break his families cycle of poverty, alcoholism, and hopelessness. He transfers to Reardan High school, where the only other Native American is the mascot. He was branded as a traitor on the reservation and treated as a pariah at his new school, he copes by drawing cartoons and comics and fantasizing about a brighter future. Junior throughout the whole Novel refused to give up, and as he perseveres through every trauma he finds that there may be more to the world than the divide he's always known.

     The rez that Junior lived on is kind of similar to the South Side of Chicago in a sense. People on the South Side are typically poorer than people that live in other areas and people don't have as much money as most people that work and live downtown. Also there are more gangs, violence, and people that drink and smoke on the south which is similar to the reservation that Junior lived on. Lasty, the south side of Chicago is similar to the reservation because most people are raised to live the life that they live, such as being violent, poor, and doing drugs and alcohol, and they have little opportunity to change their lifestyle.