Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian Analysis

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Arnold Spirit Jr., the protagonist in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian written Sherman Alexie, has many struggles throughout the book. Many people die including his sister, uncle, and grandma because they were drunk or a drunk killed them. The pitcher of beer on my poster represents Arnold’s struggle dealing with deaths by beer. Arnold also deals with having little to none money. His father had to shoot and kill his beloved dog, because their family couldn’t afford getting the sick dog to a doctor. The broken glasses and his black eye represent him getting beat up all the time. Arnold also gets made fun for being hydrocephalic, which means he was born with water on the brain. In the book he says “Yep. I belong to the Black-Eye-of-the-Month