Novel

The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian

By Sherman Alexie
The Black-Eye-of-the-Month Club

1. Junior is in this club because kids consider him retarded and kids on the res who are retards get beaten up at least once a month.

2. He draws cartoon's because they are his way of escape out his his life. His first two pictures depict that he doesn't might teasing himself or demotivating himself.

3. The style of writing in the first chapter is very casual, and negative as the author describes the character as a person who is always bullied and harassed.

Why Chicken  Means So Much to Me

1. To him the worst thing about being poor is not being able to help his best friend Oscar ( his pet dog) his family was too poor so they could not afford to pay for treatment so he weeped and cried. His mum and dad decided to put the poor dog out of his misery and so they shot the dog.

2. It shows that Junior and his family can not afford to eat everyday as they are so poor, but when his dad brings a big bucket of KFC he is starving and that is why the food tastes better.

3. Oscar gets extremely sick and he suffers a lot, he is really badly suffering so Juniors dad shoots him to put him out of his misery. This illustrates that the family are not able to look after the poor dog and they don't what him to suffer either as they are nice people.

4. Poverty is a cycle in Juniors family because according to him poverty doesn't give strength or teach you lessons about preservence but instead it just teaches you about being poor.

5. Five adjectives that would describe Juniors personality so far would be, artistic, smart, negative, poetic and retarded.

Revenge Is My Middle Name

1. Junior and Rowdy's relationship is really odd, as Junior is a smart, nerdy boy and Rowdy is the tough and harsh boy. Rowdy however look after Junior as he is weak and fragile, but he only does this because Junior is the only person who truly understands his feelings.

2. The Spokane Powwow is an annual powwow celebration over the Labour Day weekend. At the powwow there usually is singing, war dancing, gambling, storytelling, laughter. fry bread, hamburgers, hot dogs, arts and crafts, plus there would be plenty of alcoholic brawling.

3. Rowdy snuck into the Andrusses tent and shaved their eyebrows off and cut their braids off. Rowdy did these things because the three brothers were playing catch with him and calling him names which included hydro because of his brain condition and they kneed him in the balls. This shows that Junior and Rowdy are close friends as they were born only two hours different from each other and they are the only ones who understand each others feelings.

Because Geometry Is Not a Country Somewhere Near France

1. Mr P is an old man that teaches at the local school in the Reservation, he sometimes forgets to come to school. He sometimes teaches class in his pyjamas, the tribe houses all the teachers in a one bedroom cottage, this is because you are not allowed to teach at the school and his always sleepy.

2. He doesn't like white people because they are considered as the liberal, white, vegetarian do-gooders and conservative, white missionary saviours. Junior hates how they think they are so important because they help the children on the reservation to get some education.

3. He feels annoyed that his school and his tribe are so poor  and sad hat they have to study from books that their parents studied form. Which roughly means that the book would be 30 years older that him, he felt horrible as the book actually had Agnes Adams written on the front, he felt that his hopes and dreams floated up in a mushroom cloud.

Hope Against Hope

1. Junior threw his geometry book because he was so annoyed and frustrated at the fact that the book was 30 years older than himself. It signifies that he still hasn't lost hope and he wants to learn and be knowledgeable and want to be like his sister in the end.

2. He says these things because all the Indians on the reserve have given up, he uses examples like Rowdy to describe what he means he explains why Rowdy doesn't hurt Junior because he was they only good thing in Rowdy's life and he doesn't want to give up on him. He explains how all the kids have given up, all his friends, all the bullies, their parents and their grandparents even the teachers on the reserve have given up.

3. Mr P's advice to Junior is to leave the reserve forever. Mr P recons that Junior has been fighting from the day he was born as he fought off the seizures, he fought off all the drunks and drug addicts and he kept his hope. He believes that Junior will find more and more hope the farther yo walk away from the reservation.

Go Means Go

1. Junior's parents react very well with Junior's desicion to change schools, it was almost like they were hoping for him to change schools, this shows that they still haven't lost hope in their son and want him to succed in life and have a better one than what they were having and are having.

Rowdy Sings the Blues

1. Sporting results are used often to compare the two schools as that was the only thing that was common between the two schools. Reardan where better in  everything else as the had all the money and education, they needed to succseded in life.

2. Rowdy reacts very badly to Junior's decision to change schools, he thinks that Junior has turned into a white lover so he shouldn't be friendes with someone who goes to a white person's school. He also feels upset and cries as he lost his one and only friend.

3. Rowdy disguises his pain by screaming and stopping himself from crying, eventhough he felt so much pain and misery as he lost his only friend who understands him it also shows that he really cared about him and now he has nobody to help him through his tough times at his home.

How to Fight Monsters

1. Junior has deemed to have betrayed his tribe becuase he changed school's from Wellpint High to Reardon, so all the other Indians on the reservation think he has betrayed their beliefs and ideas about the white people as he is going to mix with them.

2. It shows the difference between the two races and how much there is a rich and poor side in the society. It symbolizes that Junior thinks and believes he has no hope being an Indian as white people get everything good in their life where as the Indians don't get anything that can help them in their future.

3. On the reservation people normally call him by his nick name where as in Reardon they call him by his proper christened name. He did know about this so he told his nick name to everybody and when the role was called out there was confusion about who it was.

4. They acted strangely towards him the Reardon boys who paid attention to him didn't get violent or punched him they only called him names. When he punched Roger in the face and gave him a blood nose he gained respect and the kids treated him normally.

5. He could have reacted violenty to all the name calling but instead he felt fraid and scared that they might bash him up, so he kept a low profile and decided to ignore all the name calling, but he still didn't like them calling him names.

6. In the reservation you had to win fist fights to gain respect and they would get into them all the time and nobody would care, but in Reardan nobody got into fist fights as they consider it cruel and ill mannered. They tease, harrass and bully but they will never get into fight with the person unlike on the res where they would definately do that.

7. It is a significant moment in Junior's life as he thinks he has gained some respect and they won't give him as much or any trouble. He also thinks that his world has shifted from being a punching bag to someone who is not picked on or troubled by big, strong, and powerful boys.

Grandmother Gives Me Some Advice

1. He learns that he couldn't count on anyone to help him or keep him safe anymore as his best friend hated him and wouldn't help him even if it was life or death becuase he apparently betrayed him and left him for whtie people and white culture.

2. Junior's grandmother's advice is that becuase he stood up for he thought was right, he gained respect from the other boys and now they wouldn't bother him, but if they do knee them in the balls next time. Mainly that they pushed him around to see how tough he was.

Tears of a Clown

1. Junior's story about Dawn illustres that Junior is a big dreamer, he fell in love with the best powwow dancer on the res, he told his feelings about her to Rowdy who explained the situation andmade him understand that Dawn doesn't care about him, it also shows that Junior is an emotional boy who reliases on Rowdy for most things, he even reliases that Rowdy is his secret keeper and they would often share them with each other but they don't do that anymore.