Friday, October 15, 2010

The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian by Alexie Sherman

This story is about an Indian - American boy named Arnold Spirit Junior. He lives on an Indian reservation. He starts high school and gets a textbook that his mother used. He got so angry because he felt that was happening to him because he's Indian. So he threw the book and it hit his teacher. The teacher came to speak to him and told him he had to leav the reservation. So he switched to Reardan, which no one on the reservation found acceptable. He met a girl named Penelope and started to change himself. Since he left the reservation his sister decided to do the same and moved to Montana. She ended up dying in a fire in her trailer.

I would recommend this book because it teaches you that you can be anything you want to be. As long as you set your mind on it. If you set your mind on it, you'll achieve everything you believe. Arnold learned that and so did his sister. He also learned that everything isn't going wrong with him because he's an Indian, it's just how his life was planned out from the start.  Arnold's future is very bright since he left the reservation.

-Ileana Jang

1 comment:

  1. Katherine Perdomo-
    You gave really well written-out details and kept on topic. That was a really good recommendation too. Keep up the good work!

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