The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian

The absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie analyzes the obscure world of Native Americans. Sherman Alexie uses humor, sadness, and real life situation to connect the reader to the lives of Native Americans. Truly, no one knows what it is like to live in a reservation except for those that have to. Reservation is mostly described as prison-like. Karen Diver shows that Native Americans are the ones who get to live in that environment and are likely surrounded and by poverty. Junior the narrator of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian takes the reader to his world which is dominated by poverty. After sometime Junior decides to leave his reservations in order to grow in a more healthy environment. The effects of poverty shapes junior into a daring and determined individual who takes the chance to live a different life. Both Sherman Alexie and Karen Diver explains how difficult it is to live in an environment surrounded by poverty and how hard it is to break free from poverty. …show more content…
Junior explains as it were a prison “reservation were meant to be prisons...Indians were supposed to move onto reservation and die. We were supposed to disappear...Indians have forgotten that reservation were meant to be death camps” (Alexie 216-217). Junior concludes that living on the reservation is the same as being in prison; in the reservation, there is no life. At the beginning of the story, junior expose the reader to the daily life of Native Americans. Freely he explains what is like to be Native “It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor… And because you’re Indian you start believing you’re destined to be poor. It’s an ugly circle and there’s nothing you can do about it” (Alexie 13). Sherman Alexie addresses the issue of poverty and state that it is a cycle that Native American find hard to break out

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The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian