Read the following quotation from the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part –Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. In a complete and well supported paragraph express what the excerpt means in the context of the independent reading you have completed in class. Use specific evidence from both the book and one independent reading article to support your response.
Quote #1
Due on Monday, October 7, 2013
"If you stay on this
rez," Mr. P said, "they're going to kill you. I'm going to kill you.
We're all going to kill you. You can't fight us forever."
"I don't want to
fight anybody," I said.
"You've been fighting
since you were born," he said. "You fought off that brain surgery.
You fought off those seizures. You fought off all the drunks and drug addicts.
You kept your hope. And now, you have to take your hope and go somewhere where
other people have hope."
I was starting to
understand. He was a math teacher. I had to add my hope to somebody else's
hope. I had to multiply my hope.
"Where is hope?"
I asked. "Who has hope?"
"Son," Mr. P said.
"You're going to find more and more hope the farther and farther you walk
away from this sad, sad, sad reservation." (p. 43)
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ReplyDeleteBased on this excerpt, hope is nothing when you don't have the opportunity to do anything with it. Mr. P is trying to help generate the awareness and truth that needs to be acknowledged in order for this young 14 year old Indian to be able to move forward in life and break the statics of Indians on the "Rez". In other words, the Rez is a place filled with doubt, desperation, negativity, and tons of damaged people. Sure hope may still be alive within the people of the Rez, but in reality they all have given up, Indian culture is simply holding the people back. This is trying to express that there is nothing wrong with trying to break free and better yourself. That there is nothing wrong with expanding your hope, turning them into dreams, making something positive out of a once negative or doubtful situation. Though contradicting this message there is always the worry of am I insulting my culture, how will my people react if I go beyond the expectations of my people and do as I please with the freedom of my initial rights. Obviously leaving home...or wherever isn't always easy no matter how much you've be waiting for the opportunity to present itself. Hope is something rather challenging to deal with and sometimes it contemplates life and the beliefs in which we have as people. But why should we have hope if we do not intend to make anything of it. There should be nothing worse than dead hope! The bottom line is sometimes you have to remove yourself from creation situations in life in order for you to succeed and make life more comfortable for any individual.
ReplyDeletei feel that people who are weak because of their situation like the native americans the only thing they can do is hope for some miracle to happen.
ReplyDeleteI feel like for you to be strong you got to fight. If you want a future or someone that wanna be know.You have to fight for it and never give up. Having hope is all you need.
ReplyDeleteBased on the excerpt, what Mr. P is telling Junior to do is leave the rez and follow his dreams and hopes. In order for junior to have hope he has to build his hopes on other people who has a positive view on life and who believes that one day all their hopes would come true. If junior stays on the rez, he's going to become like everybody else; a drunk and a hopeless soul who's holding on to a culture that's struggling to exist.
ReplyDeleteBased on the quote, Mr. P words are to encourage Junior to follow his dreams and believe in such things as hope exists even for him. The purpose of mr. P's words is to let Junior understand that in order for him to live his life perusing his dreams, he must leave the rez. "You're going to find more and more hope the farther and farther you walk away from this sad, sad, sad reservation." For Junior to continue having hope, he must leave and find others who have positive feed of hope. Based on the book, the rez is described as a place of negative thoughts on "hope" where everyone has given up and becomes hopeless, sad, drunks who aren't sure what they're fighting for anymore; that everyone on the rez is designed to kill you, your hopes. But Mr. P sees that Junior is different, he doesn't want to become someone like that, his anger from when he saw the geometry book proved his fight for hope, therefore having mr. P open up about everything that will happen if he remains on this rez. And; how he can grow his hope of a bright future if he's far away from here. Just as how documents from our IRJ( i think that's what mr. Irons calls it.) about leaving the rez shows the struggles between choosing hope and the rez, Junior now has to choose what path he will take.
ReplyDeleteBased On the excerpt, hope will keep you going in life. Mr.P is suggesting Junior to go to a place where his hope will be heard. A plethora of Native Americans that live in the reservations didn't have anything to hope for. " But we reservations Indians don't get to realize our dreams. We don't get those chances" (pg 13). This shows that Indians that live in the reservation don't have the opportunity to realize their dream. According to the show "30 Days" adult Native Americans hope that their kids have a better and successful life then they did. Morgan Spurlock asked Carl a Navajo what he wants for his kids and he said "get a good education and be successful in the rodeo". This shows that what this father wants for his kids is a better life. The Native Americans living in reservations hope that their people will progress and will be better than the past generation.
ReplyDeleteBased on the excerpt it seems like you always have to be confident and never give up on your hope. Always find the right path to get to where you want to be in life
ReplyDeleteAccording to the quote from "the absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian" Mr.P explains to Junior that there is no hope in the reservation left. And soon enough, Junior won`t have hope either if he stays on the reservation. Expressing “If you stay on this rez," Mr. P said, "they're going to kill you. I'm going to kill you. We're all going to kill you. You can't fight us forever." Meaning, if you stay on the reservation, everyone will destroy the hope u still have. Another piece of evidence that would support this idea is the article “Why Are Indian Reservations So Poor” describing that “People point to alcoholism, corruption or school-dropout rates, for poverty” “Long distances to jobs & dusty undeveloped land that’s not good for growing”. These difficulties on the reservation lead the Indians into believing there is no hope for them what`s so ever. So, to prevent that from happening to Junior, Mr. P explains to him, that if he stays on the reservation all his hope will be gone, soon enough as well.
ReplyDeleteBased on the quote, Mr.P is telling junior to follow his dreams and keep moving forward there's hope for anyone as long as they leave the rez. But if you stay you too will become a drunkie lowlife like every other person on this reservation.Mr.P's words are to motivate Junior and keep him going so he can get out of the rez and pursue his dreams. "You kept your hope. And now, you have to take your hope and go somewhere where other people have hope" (pg.43) Mr.P is telling Junior he MUST! leave the rez to find hope , he must go somewhere there's hope like the side white rich people live in in order to get somewhere in life, just like the excerpt is saying. Mr.P sees how unique Junior is and how much of a fighter he is , he believes Junior can escape the sad rez life. The Irj "What the hell they're only Indians" document also show the struggles in the rez between pursuing your dreams to get out of the rez or staying on the rez and becoming a alcoholic or drug addict. Tim Giago the author of the article spoke about some teens that have developed a drinking problem because of the hardships of growing up in poverty, and how they must change their lives. Just like Junior has to change his life on the rez , he must leave and find hope !
ReplyDeleteBased on this quote, this shows that Mr.P is trying to make sure that Junior leaves the rez, and follow his dreams. If he stays on the rez all the hope he ever had will fade. Like when Mr.P said "they're going to kill you. I'm going to kill you. We're all going to kill you. You can't fight us forever." He want to make sure that he understand that if he doesn't leave, little by little all his hopes and dreams will fade away and he'll be like everyone one the rez and Mr.P doesn't want him to be like that at all. He wants him to grow up and be the person he wants to be and not someone who lost hope in everything.
ReplyDeleteThis quote suggests to me that Mr.P is telling junior move forward in life and pursue his dreams because he would not be able to achieve those dreams if he remains on the rez. The mindset of the people on the rez is to become drunkards with no hope or future. Mr. P tried to shed some light on junior to make him realize that staying on the rez would not help preserve the Native American culture. The quote "If you stay on this rez," they're going to kill you. I'm going to kill you. We're all going to kill you. You can't fight us forever."Mr.P is telling junior that his people are killing the Native American heritage and dreams. After junior threw the book that he realized was thirty years old because he saw his mothers name in it , Mr.P realized that junior might be the one to save the Native American culture so that is reason why Mr.P is telling junior about his past. Mr.P believes if junior goes away he can save the Native American culture.
ReplyDeleteAccording to Webster’s dictionary hope is “to want something to happen or be true and think that it could happen or be true.” According to Mr. P in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part – Time Indian the protagonist, Junior, must get as far away as possible from the reservation in order to be able to obtain the ability to hope. On page 43, Mr. P and Junior have a conversation; in the conversation Junior asks Mr. P where hope is and who has hope. His exact words when asking the questions were “where is hope” and “who has hope”. Mr. P’s response was “You’re going to find more and more hope the farther and farther you walk away from this sad, sad, sad reservation.” In order for Junior to live on this reservation where he cannot hope the reservation first had to be built. When reservations were being created many people were against them being created. One of the many people who believed that what was being done to the Native Americans was unfair and unjust was Ralph Waldo Emerson. In “Letter to Martin Van Buren President of the United States” Emerson implies that he does not agree with what the government is doing to the Native Americans and that he feels that it is not only unfair but that it puts them (the Native Americans) in a place where it is very hard to hope when he states “We have looked in the newspapers of different parties and find a horrid confirmation of the tale. We are slow to believe it. We hoped the Indians were misinformed, and that their remonstrance was pre-mature, and will turn out to be a needless act of terror.” Both pieces of writing contribute to the idea that Native American reservations are a negative effect on the ability that Native Americans have to hope.
ReplyDeleteThe excerpt from the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part –Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, means that dreams and hopes on an Indian Reservation don't become realized because they don't have any chances in the reservation. For example in the excerpt above it says "You fought off all the drunks and drug addicts. You kept your hope. And now, you have to take your hope and go somewhere where other people have hope." Junior had to deal with all the drunks and drug addicts as he grew up because those people gave up there dream and became drunks or drug addicts. Then Mr.P even says that Junior needs to leave the reservation and take his hope with him or he would become like the others and give up. Another example is in the song i heard in class. I listened to "reservation blues" by Jim Boyd and Sherman Alexie. In the song he sings "And if yah ain't got choices well then what else do you choose? (repeat 2x) If yah ain't got choices ain't got much to lose." Right there you can see that on the reservation there are no chances to make dreams come true and if you have no choice what can you choose? You can leave like Mr.P had said or stay and become like the other drunks and drug addicts.
ReplyDeleteHope in a general sense is what keeps a person going and striving no matter the circumstances, its what makes a person see light in the night no matter how dark the night is. An interesting fact about hope is that, it never dies and there’s always one person that has it stronger. A good sample is the quote from THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART TIME INDIAN when junior and his Math Teacher had a conversation on the porch, He said to junior “…you can’t fight us forever… you’ve been fighting since you were born… you fought off all the drunk and drug addicts, you kept your hope…” This is a very interesting quote because it explains that junior has been fighting the hopelessness of others in the reservation all his life, even though the other hope had died, he kept his hope strong. He kept seeing a light that got brighter as the night got darker. Another interesting point is the statement from the article WHAT THE HELL (they only Indians) by Tim Giago, where the cause and effects of alcoholism in the Indian reservation are discussed, the article quotes “… treating alcoholism on the reservation was not too high on the priority list of anyone… it’s a cyclical thing the Indians are trying hard to break from…” This explains that the rate at which alcohol is been consumed in the reservation is so high, no one bothers and has lost hope in treating or reducing it, except the Indians themselves. Even though it gets darker and darker they keep trying hard to see a light… to see a non-alcoholic reservation. Hope is yes in a million no’s, a strong faith in making an impossibility a possibility no matter how hard or difficult or stressful the circumstance is, no matter what the world things. Hope is Faith.
ReplyDeleteThe excerpt from the book means that on the reservation junior cannot have hope there is no hope to be found on the reservation thats why the teacher tells him the farther he goes the more hope he will find , the farther he leaves from the rez the better opportunities he will have to do something in life filled with hope
ReplyDeleteThe day that the British first landed in America, the Native American culture and beliefs were put in a sand clock, and it was only a matter of time before their beliefs and cultures were going to be forgotten. The weak and defeated Native Americans were forced to move to reservations across the nation, where they can freely live and practice their beliefs in their ground. After hundreds of years, the Native American population has greatly decreased and most of the remaining Native American people do not practice their traditions or even believe in their culture. In the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part –Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, a young boy named Junior is living a very difficult life in a poor and very harsh reservation, and is trying to find an escape route to free himself from all of the horrible things that he encounters each day. On page 43, Mr. P, Juniors teacher says "If you stay on this rez," Mr. P said, "they're going to kill you. I'm going to kill you. We're all going to kill you. You can't fight us forever." Mr. P is explaining to Junior that he must leave the reservation, because Mr. P and the other teachers are all in the reservation with the same purpose, to destroy the faith from the Native American people. Junior has been fighting his whole life, and even when the odds are against him, he has hope. Hope is what drives Junior to believe that he can still be something in life even though his sister failed in life and his parents are poor. What Mr. P is explaining to Junior is that when Junior threw his textbook at his teachers face, he immediately knew that Junior is fighting. He knows that Junior has hope and is telling him that he must leave and go somewhere else because if he stays his hope will go to ruin. This excerpt is stating that if Junior wants to succeed in life, he must leave the reservation and go somewhere else. In page 43 of the book, Mr. P says to junior, " You won't give up. You can't give up. You through that book in my face because somewhere inside you refuse to give up." Mr. P is again telling Junior that he has hope and it would be ashamed if Junior were to give up. Junior should move somewhere else where he can take his hope and put it to good use. Even though Junior struggles through his life he does not want to give up and remain living in the reservation, with the hope that he has he wants to go somewhere else and make the most of it.
DeleteThe excerpt from the book means that Junior is strong and he has been fighting all along without even realizing it. But it also means that if Junior continues to stay on the reservation, all the drunks and drug addicts will suck up all the hope he has, he has to leave the reservation. He has to double the amount of hope he has but in order to do that, he has to get out, he has to escape. In the article I've been reading based on Use of Alcohol on the rez, Reservation teens often find more ways to obtain alcohol than other kids. The use of the alcohol resorts in car accidents, suicides, etc. If Junior continues to live on the rez, eventually he will become just like everyone. He'll become an alcoholic or a drug addict and Mr. P doesn't want that for him.
ReplyDeleteBased on this except from the book The absolute True Diary of a Part Time Indian, any one can have hope but if a person doesn't have have the support, opportunities and is surrounded by negativity the hope won't lead nowhere. Mr.P is trying to make Junior aware of what he is surrounded with in the Rez. Things like lack of opportunities which leads the Native of Americans to leave the Rez. Bad influence like alcohol and drugs which leads the Native to addiction. Mr.P is trying to motivate Junior to get out of the Rez and surround himself with hopeful people, that way he doesn't become a drunk. When Mr.P says, " you kept your hope. And now, you have to take your hope and go somewhere where other people have hope."(pg.43) Mr.P is implying that Junior needs to leave the Rez and surround himself with people outside of the Rez, because they have what the people of the Rez don't have and have lost, hope and opportunities. Mr.P believes that Junior has to get out in hopes of becoming something. In the Rez there isn't a lot of good opportunities which, doesn't let the Native Americans have the chance to turn their hopes and dreams into reality. In Letter to Martin Van Buren President of the United States Emerson alleges his discontentment with the unfair treatment the Government has towards Native of Americans. Emerson affirms that it puts the Native of Americans in a hopeless place. Emerson says, "on the broaching of this question, a general expression of despondency, of disbelieve that any good will accrue from a remonstrance on a act of fraud and robbery, appeared in those men to whom we naturally turn for aid and counsel." This contributes to the idea of the choices Mr.P is trying to make Junior acknowledge, either to leave the Rez and turn his hopes and dreams into reality, or to stay in the Rez and slowly lose the hope and become a addict like the rest of them.
ReplyDeleteThe quote from the book is trying to say that Junior has hope which is good, but the people on the reservation will take that away from him. They'll make him lose all his hope and turn him into a drug addict or alcoholic. Or maybe everyone who bullies him will end up killing him or make him kill himself. Mr. P tells Junior that if he gets away he can survive. And that there are opportunities if he leaves the reservation.
ReplyDeleteHope is a faith that people believe in to allow them to keep going forward in life to achieve something that can change there life. In the book " The Absolutely True Diary of a Part –Time Indian" hope isn't as meaningful as it would be to others in general but to these people on the rez hope means nothing to them. That's why Mr.P wants Junior a rez boy to keep hoping and leave the rez. In the book it states "If you stay on this rez," Mr. P said, "they're going to kill you. I'm going to kill you. We're all going to kill you. You can't fight us forever."This means that if Junior doesn't leave the rez the people will destroy the ounce of desire he has to make a difference. Mr.P wants Junior to leave the rez. Hope for the best and go forward because if he stays hear the people will try to snatch the last bit of Indian culture he has in him and the cycle of people with no hope will continue on the rez. In the article from class about "Rez Life" it states " thousands of these children, now adults, turned to alcohol to forget and probably because it numbed them of these memories". This statement shows that the reason theirs a high percentage of alcoholic people on the rez isn't because there bad.Its because these people want to get rid of all these bad memories from the past that they or their ancestors have dealt with. When the natives were abused by foreigners in there territory who came to claim there land. That's why the native Indians drink to forget those horrible memories and there only hope for that is alcohol. It eases there pain from past events so to certain people hope means so much in different perspectives. Hope allows people to go forward like the Indians its hope for a better future from the past its faith that one day they will achieve a goal and find happiness.
ReplyDeleteBased on the excerpt from the book "The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian", Mr. P is trying to encourage Junior into leaving the rez because he knows that there isn't any hope for anybody if they stay in the rez. According to the book Mr. P is the only math teacher in the rez, and he has seen many people give up their hopes and dreams by staying there. Mr. P is trying to encourage Junior into leaving the rez because he knows that Junior has the abilities of doing something good with his life, but he'll end up like his sister if he doesn't leave. In the book, Junior wants to have a better life but he knows that the only way of accomplishing that is by getting out of the rez, because the only things around him are loss of hope, alcoholism and little to no opportunities. Junior knows that the only hope he has in becoming something in his life is slowly fading away, but if he leaves the reservation he'll have more opportunities to become something else than just an alcoholic. According to the IRJ artice " Why are Indian Reservations so poor? A look at the Bottom 1%" people always blame the poverty of the reservations on the Alcoholism, school drop out rates, the long distances to jobs, and to the unemployment rates as well. This goes back to what is being said to Junior by Mr. P because he is trying to show him that there isn't anything left to live for in the rez when he says, "If you stay on this rez, they're going to kill you. I'm going to kill you. We're all going to kill you. You can't fight us forever."
ReplyDeleteHope is when you believe in something you want or want to happen in the near future. Hope is the thing that drives most people to make a change. In Emersons letter to Martin Van Buren, expresses his emotion's about the wrongful treaty President Martin Van Buren will establish. In his letter he states “it is the chirping of grasshoppers beside the immortal question whether justice shall be done by the race of civilized, to the race of savage man; whether all the attributes of reason, of civility, of justice, and even of mercy, shall be put off by the American people, and so vast an outrage upon the Cherokee nation, and upon human nature, shall be consummated". Emerson questions how us Americans can be called civilized, yet we are taking away the land of the Native Americans. He writes this letter to president Buren because he realizes that the Native American does not want to move away and the treaty is a sham.Yet by writing this letter,he has hope that the president would change his mind. Another example on how hope can make people want to make a change is in the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. On page 43 it says "Son," Mr. P said. "You're going to find more and more hope the farther and farther you walk away from this sad, sad, sad reservation.". Mr.P feels that Junior can only get hope the farther he gets from the reservation. Mr.P wants him to realize that there is no hope being on the reservation so by telling this to junior,he wants to make the slightest change in Juniors way of believing in hope.
ReplyDeleteBased on the qoute Mr.P is like a god trying to guide or give junior advice about leaving the reservation because he wants him to have a better life and does not want him to die on the reservation with his culture. Hope in this story is used in a positive way because junior is hoping for a better life,for example in the Indian Country Diaries acholism causes people to hope. The mesaage this qoute is saying is that if you hope to have a good or hope to achieve your goal of stop doing drugs it Will happen but if you are in a bad area and you hope to have a good day or hope to achieve your goal in reality you know its not going to happen even though you hope .
ReplyDeleteBased on the qoute Mr.P is like a god trying to guide or give junior advice about leaving the reservation because he wants him to have a better life and does not want him to die on the reservation with his culture. Hope in this story is used in a positive way because junior is hoping for a better life,for example in the Indian Country Diaries acholism causes people to lose hope. The mesaage this qoute is saying is that if you hope to have a good day or hope to achieve your goal of stop doing drugs it Will happen but if you are in a bad area and you hope to have a good day or hope to achieve your goal in reality you know its not going to happen even though you hope .
DeleteIn this quote from the "Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie, Mr. P is trying to save Junior from having a life filled of misery, false hopes and broken dreams just like all the Native Americans living in the Reservations. From the moment Junior threw the textbook at him, Mr. P realized that there is something special in him. This is shown when Mr. P says: " You've been fighting since the day you were born." Mr. P knows that Junior is strong and he wants the best for him. He wants his hopes and dreams to come true, unlike many Native Americans who have stayed in the Reservation. But that will not happen if Junior stays. This is why Mr. P begs Junior to leave the Reservation when he says: " Son, you're going to find more and more hope the farther and farther you walk away from this sad, sad, sad reservation." (Pg 43) Now it's Junior's moment to make a decision. Will he stay? Or will Junior leave the Reservation?
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Based on the exerpt, Hope represents junior achieving something more than broken dreams. Mr.P was saying that junior staying on the rez would kill his hopes & dreams. Junior made it through the surgery, & the seizures; he can make it living off the rez, on his own, bettering himself. Instead of surrounding himself with people that have no hope. Hope to me is the belief that something good will come.
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The quote is saying, Paul had a chance to do something with his life. He has a chance of the rez because the rez is a sad place where many had lost hope in many ways. To show Paul is all about hope, the boy is in poverty with a bully on his neck but still hangs in there not giving up. If he was to leave, probably his drawing might reach a new high and he might become rich, just with only hope.
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Hope is a feeling of desire you have when wanting better or for yourself of someone else. Hope gives you high expectations for things in life."In Absolutely True Dairy Of A Part-time Indian" Mr. P has hope for junior and knows he doesn't have to grow up to a be a drunken, uneducated and angry Indian like the people he has grown up to see. Mr. P wants junior to believe in himself and do better and by doing that is leaving the rez. Mr. P knows junior is not physically strong enough to handle the rough life on the rez but know mentally can do whatever because he has hope. Mr. P says "You're going to find more and more hope the farther and farther you walk away from this sad, sad, sad reservation" and he means there is more to life than what your living in. You can prosper if you make a change and leave with faith and hope you can have whatever you desire in life. Also in the article "What the hell they're just Indians" By Tim Giago he says "you know, when I was a drinker nobody put a gun to my head and said drink that beer" and that just how show living under a certain circumstances that's just what your life will turn into when you follow the lifestyle among yourself its hard to push forward and tell your self "you can do better", "life doesn't have to be this way" without any hope. An its now or never its time to make a change for your self and family and that's the decision junior needs to make with the help of his family and Mr. P. Hope is everything you need in life to become a better person.
ReplyDeleteThe lack of cultural power makes people lose hope. In the excerpt in, "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian," its been proven a lot that being who you are and living in the Rez can limit your opportunities. Mr. P says in the book, "You kept your hope. And now, you have to take your hope and go somewhere where other people have hope." By saying this to Junior, its quite true what he's saying. If Junior were to escape his sad reality and go into a field where there's more opportunities and hope, he can definitely achieve his dream, if he just works hard for it, but by being in the Rez, its so limited. As for cultural power, in the article, The Absence of Native American Power, the writer says that because of the lack of cultural power and the ways people see the Native Americans, that they will always be placed in the past, "But I think its indicative of the ways in which Indians have no cultural power we're still placed in the past." It can be true in many ways. Without the lack of hope and the lack of cultural power, maybe Junior could never go out and seek his dreams or opportunities.
ReplyDeleteHope is being able to see something that is not right in front of you. Hope is when you have lost everything and it seems your world has come to an end and it seems that nothing worst can happen or that their is nothing left to lose but for some reason you hold on. You keep moving forward because you have hope and you believe that something that has yet come to pass will come to pass eventually.What the excerpt means is that hope is powerful enough to help you escape what you think might be the worst place in the world. It is also saying that hope is limited on the Rez therefore in order to obtain more hope he would have to go far away. In other words being on the Rez will only destroy whatever hope is there if any is there at all. His hope will only decrease while he is on the Rez and without having hope it becomes difficult to make moves or changes that impact your future or your life. Mr.P is encouraging this young boy to go far away to maintain his hope because he has already come along way. He has already had enough hope to reach where he is at which was not a walk in the park. It would be a shame if he was to give up now after all that he has overcome when there is possible potential to be greater and to change his entire life in a positive way. He could only expand his opportunities by moving far away and even accomplish his goals and dreams.
ReplyDeleteHope-a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. In the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part –Time Indian junior is one of the only people with hope on the reservation and he is deciding to do what ever it takes to keep hope alive. In the book the math teacher Mr. P and the Former Indian antagonists said to junior "they are going to kill you. I am going to kill you. We are going to kill you. You can not fight us forever." By saying that he is saying that leaving the reservation is he only chance at hope his only chance of life. In the article "What The Hell There Only Indians". They drown there selfs in alcohol. They drink and drink and hope for a better day a better life because it is forced on them at a young age. Hope is the feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen weather it is to you, for you , or someone else that is just what hope is.
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Based on the quote hope is nothing if you don't have opportunities. In he book The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time indian, Mr.P has experience Opportunities on the Rez. He believes junior has a opportunity to achieve and accomplish goals to be succesful. When Mr.P quotes "hes going to kill him, and they all Would kill him" he is not referring that they would actually kill him. He is saying they would kill his opportunity, and he uses his best friend. As an example because his best friend has anger issues and is not a focus individual. Mr.P also uses Junior's older sister as an example because she was once Mr.P smartest student and She had goals. Now his sister threw her life Away because she doesn't expand her knowledge and she stays in the basement. If Junior leaves the Rez and starts school in a more richer area he Would be able to achieve something in life if he puts his mind to it.
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ReplyDeleteIn Indian Reservations, if you don't get yourself out of there you will eventually cause your own death. In the article "something he did" Roxy Gordan didnt get out of the reservation and he drank alcohol his entire life and eventually died of liver failure. In the book, the parent ddnt get out and they didnt do anything with their life so they are just waiting to die.
ReplyDeletebased on the exerpt mr p is trying to get the child know that their are better opportunities that will be given to him if he leaves the rez. if the stays his life will have a dead end. the people and the rez will kill him. maybe not physically but mentally. the rez hardly has any resources for him to live off of. their are limited jobs on the rez. most of the people are drunks and have no life and most likely he will become one of them if he stays. the boy should leave and go out of the reservation the opportunuties are endless and he has protential. so he must leave it will only make his future better and brighter
ReplyDeleteHope is nothing without opportunities, thats why the Native Americans on the reservations are so hopeless because they have no opportunities and they don't want to leave the rez to find these opportunities. People don't normally want to leave the rez as they will be leaving there families, but opportunities are far from the rez and if you don't chase after it then you woun't get it. Also one wants to leave home as they feel they wouldn't fit in. Mr. P tells Jr that if he doesn't leave the rez the people will kill him because there culture is dying and after that there will be nothing left of the Natives, so Jr needs to leave to get more opportunity so it will be easier to make a better life for himself and his family.
ReplyDeleteHope, a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. In the quote from The Absolute True Diary of a Part Time Indian mr. P is telling junior that on the rez Junior is going to become nobody but if he leaves that he would have a greater chance of becoming someone special. The farther and farther he goes people are going to accept him and not try to kill him for who he is. In the video The Absence of Native American power a native american talks about how natives dont have no cultural power and they are still placed on the past. This shows that many native americans have no hope because no matter what they are still going to be placed in the past.
ReplyDeletemainly in indian res. its what yu make it to be in religion its not what yu leave behind. juniors farther states that if he leaves the rez then he will be =come nothing because his father mentality is based on only the rez. but junior then realizes that leaving the rez will give him a better life and will give hiim a better shot at becoming somebody.
ReplyDeleteBased on the excerpt, Mr.P is trying to tell Junior that everybody on the rez has lost hope. Junior has hope because he has fought all his life and he never gave up. Mr.P wants to isolate Junior from all the negative people because they might influence him to lose hope just like the did. In the article " Drinking Behavior and Sources of Alcohol" it states that " Native American youths are typically found to start using alcohol at younger ages than other youths." another study is that " The Native population experiences greater negative health consequences because of alcohol use and misuse , including chronic liver disease, alcohol-related automobile crashes, suicide, homicide, and fetal alcohol syndrome." Mr.P does not want Junior to end up drinking or do drugs because he can get killed or he may kill himself like a majority of the Native American population has done. Mr.P believes Junior can make something of himself and the rez isn't going to benefit him with all of the negativity surrounding him.
ReplyDeleteIf people stay on the rez , they may not be able to experience other things in life of find what they're interested in.
ReplyDeleteAs i read along to the book and i realize that a lot of the book falls under what other documents about life on the rez i realize a pattern concerning of one thing, hope. A lot of these people who live on the rez due to the poor conditions and the lack of jobs see no good side but insist to stay on there mother land. The rez to many Indian's have become the oppisite because they believe that only there may they live in peace, tied to the mother land. In the book "True Diary of a part-time Indian' many examples are displayed in the text both good and bad to how people have lost or gained hope. As one of Junior's teachers tells him during a conversation that Junior is hope, that he still has the chance to live on and get out of this hopeless pile of shit town. Hope has lost its way when it comes to Indian's on the rez they are trying to hold up a culture that is self destructing itself
ReplyDeletein my opinion you can find hope wherever it takes you and for junior to DO that he would have to leave the rez behind because thats where all the bad is and f he wants things to go well he might as well listen to mr.p and and do whats right as in to start a new life nd a fresh start and without hope things can go bad for u
ReplyDeleteIn PTI when Mr.P and Junior was having their conversation , Mr.P was basically telling Junior that in school they are learning how to be failures and have no hope. Mr.P wants Junior too leave the Rez so that he can do something with his life because he is smart and need to do better
ReplyDeleteLiving on the reservation is a day-to-day struggle. So if you stay on the rez, chances are you might become another statistic. This is why Mr.P wants Junior to leave because he wants to see Junior prosper and he knows that if Junior stays on the rez he won't.
ReplyDeleteWhen somethings not going right you keep believing that it will get better, like Junior he knows the situation of how his family is but he never stops believing.
ReplyDeleteIn The Absolutely True Diary of a Part –Time Indian the character junior according to the quote in the text stating that reservations were meant that they were supposed to be jails is that they were meant for Indians to stay there and not leave for example earlier on the book when Mr P said that he was part of the cause for the Indians to remain on the reservation and not succeed on life. In the article I read the absence of Native American power he talks about how the mascot for the Indians is almost as bad as blackface it is nowhere near close to an Indians attire and if you have a chance any chance to change not be a statistic and not be apart of the stereotype why just sit there and complain. Also on the article Indian welfare act spoken by out president he also admits that Indians do not have it easy and do not fit in, in there own homeland. When your race is known for living in poverty in the place where you originated you start to feel trapped like you have no where to go just like in a jail
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