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 #3 - Due on Monday 10/21
Traveling between Reardan
and Wellpinit, between the little white town and the reservation, I always felt
like a stranger.
I was half Indian in one
place and half white in the other. (p.118)
In the book "True diary of a part-time Indian" from the very beginning Junior explains that it's already hard for him off the rez because he is an Indian. Junior label's himself as a social outcast and when he goes to his new school off the rez he faces many problems based on his origin. It's only right to say that Junior himself even hate's himself to a certain point just for being who he is just as much as what he must put up with because of where he comes from or who he is. Well as the text from one of the documents based on exiting the rez, making a clear point to how difficult it can be because of what you need to think or take into account. Many people from the rez will look at you differently you can begin to miss the rez or as well do to your traditions. It all ties back to how or what might happen, the perspective of the people
ReplyDeletei totally agree to jorge because if you go to another place without knowing what that place you went to does or dresses, you may start to feel weird because you feel diffrenent from everyone else and they start to look at you and judge you just by your apperiance and it makes people hate their nastionality....... in my idependent reading book jenni rivera hated being a mexican women because she felt they did not want her in the music industry but she made it because she had faith in herself....
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"Traveling between Reardan and Wellpinit, between the little white town and the reservation, I always felt like a stranger. I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other." This quote means that Junior doesn't feel like he's completely himself. When he went to school on the Reservation, he felt completely Indian, but now that he only lives there, he only feels half Indian. And when he goes to school at Reardan, he feels only half white because he's still different from everyone else, he's darker and he's poor. On page 118, Junior says "It was like being Indian was my job, but it was only a part time job. And it didn't pay well." That's how Junior explains being "half White and half Indian."
ReplyDeleteJunior is an Indian and he attends an all white people school which is quite far from the rez. On page 118, Junior quotes "Traveling between Reardan and Wellpinit, between the little white town and the reservation, I always felt like a stranger. I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other." Junior feels like a loner because he is unlike everyone else in his school. Junior tries to be like everyone else to become popular and have friends so he doesn't incorporate his indian culture in school but he does when he goes home on the rez. That is why he feels like he is half white and half indian in two different places.
ReplyDeleteIn the book Part time Indian, the main character feels isolated because he is disable and getting picked on a lot for being so. also his sister went to go live a life with another "rich" Indian. he seeing that he feels even more alone. he also found a friend who is kinda weird just like him away, his friend was incredible smarts that said his new friend could help him become smart so he wont feel alone anymore. the main character got embarrassed by his own teacher ... that has a lot to say in his world, not even another adult would give him the comfort of feeling accepted in his world. on the rez he feels alone cause his sister left and his parents think he is drifting off, his sister left and his dog died. being that his only friend is the smart kid in his class
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ReplyDeletewhat junior meant was that it is common two have two identitys and thats what the quote means
ReplyDeleteI disagree with catherine because in the book part time indian junior has to personalities because he is being treated differently by both people from rerdan and his home. At home he is being treated differently because his friends didnt want him to leave and now there treating him differnt and he is acting different also
ReplyDeleteI didn't read the book!! But my guesss will be on the picture not the book... you are who you are.no one cant change that but yourself.
ReplyDeleteJunior feels like he's being treat differently by his own people because he goes to a white school. People call him a apple meaning red on the outside white on the inside. He doesn't know why everyone hates him because he's just trying to do what everyone else is scared to do which is leave the rez.
ReplyDeleteIn The Book True Diary Part Time Indian Junior quotes "Traveling between Reardan and Wellpinit, between the little white town and the reservation, I always felt like a stranger. I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other." Junior feel like everyone from the reservation is treating him different because he goes to a white school and the people on the reservation feel like since he goes to a white school he is more successful at things for example when you read further into the book you will find out how junior try's out for the basketball team but falling off topic anyways junior feel like he should be treated like everyone been treating him with respect .
ReplyDeletejunior feels like he is no longer a full indian. this is not really true he will never be a white man. but because he has started attending a school with mainly white students and which is in a white neighbourhood he might feel out of place and like he isnt being a true indian because he is outside of the reservation. the people on the rez have kinda placed him as an outcast they dont really accept him as they did so that may contribute to why he feels like a half indian and half white person he is just emotionally wrecked but this is all just for his own benefit for him to have a better future.
ReplyDeleteit means that junior is adding another half to himself . he believes that he is not complete and he doesnt have full part of himself and his body . he feels that mainly the world he lives in is not complete .. he needs to make something of his life nomatter the circumstances of his period in life ..he feels like he should be treated with honesty and respect like everyone else .. and also how things should help and relate in his life posiively
ReplyDeleteAccording to the excerpt, Junior describes himself as “half Indian in one place and half white in the other. “(p.118). Meaning once Junior began to go to school in Reardan, he was considered a traitor and a “white” in Wellpinit. While being a “stranger” in Reardan for being the only “Indian”. He feels like a white boy in his own reservation, and being an Indian in Readan. Another example that may express this would be from the song Reservation Blues “And if yah ain’t got choices well then what else do you choose? If yah ain’t got choices ain’t got much to lose…” Possibly describing the moment when Junior decided to take Mr. P`s advice and attend school at Reardan, even if it meant becoming a traitor in his reservation, and becoming an odd ball in a white school. Even though Junior is Indian, he is still treated differently in his home reservation and white school.
ReplyDeleteAccording to this quote from "True diary of a part-time- Indian", Junior/Arnold is explaining how he feels like an outcast at both school and home. He explains how he feels like “half Indian in one place and half white “(pg.118); explaining, that whenever he is at home on the rez, he is treated differently because he left Wellpoint to learn along side the Whites. He is seen as a traitor. Meanwhile, when he is at Reardan, he is treated as an outcast, an Indian in a classroom full of white people. He is expressing how he feels as if he isn't welcome at either places.
ReplyDeleteThe quote,"Traveling between Reardan and Wellpinit, between the little white town and the reservation, I always felt like a stranger.
ReplyDeleteI was half Indian in one place and half white in the other." (p.118), from the book "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part –Time Indian" can mean many things. Junior feels like a stranger in both towns because he doesn't live in Reardan but doesn't go to school in Wellpinit. He felt he was half Indian in Wellpinit but half white in Reardan. The article "On the Reservation and Off, Schools See a Changing Tide", talks about how there's been a shift in the trend for where Native American students are attending school. Junior changed schools because he knew that at Reardan there would be hope and opportunity. The article "On the Reservation and Off, Schools See a Changing Tide" has many great examples but I'm not going to get into it because its a lot of work. As a result the article shows the meaning of the excerpt in a way because Indians are started to go to different schools out of their town for opportunities and that is why junior feels that way.
The quote,"I always felt like a stranger. I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other." (118), from the book "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part –Time Indian" can mean many things, in this case Junior feels like two different people (Arnold and Junior). The quote is talking about Juniors struggle and confusion to find himself, in two different worlds. Juniors confusion comes from the feeling of being an outsider and stranger in both Reardan And Wellpinit. Junior feels that he is half Indian in Wellpinit but half white in Reardan. The whole confusion comes from Junior not knowing what culture to choose or how to combine the two, without leaving one behind. That is a struggle that many Native Americans have to deal with. In the article "The Absence of Native American Power", in which writer Sherman Alexie, who was born on a Native American reservation, talks to Bill about feeling “lost and insignificant inside the larger culture,” and how his culture’s “lack of power”. As Alexie says the influence of a culture can drive other cultures to extinction, which is one of the reason as to why Junior is so confused. Just like Alexie and Junior and many other Natives, the influence and interactions between American culture confuse them.
ReplyDeleteThe protagonist in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part –Time Indian goes by the names of Arnold Spirit and Junior. He is known as Junior when he is home at in Wellpinit but when he is at school in Reardan everyone refers to him as Arnold Spirit. On page 118 of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part –Time Indian, Junior says “Traveling between Reardan and Wellpinit, between the little white town and the reservation, I always felt like a stranger. I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other.” When he says this it gives the reader the message that he feels misunderstood by the people around him to a certain extent. He feels like a stranger in places that he is at on an everyday basis. The way Junior feels is explained with more details in the poem “Reservation Blues” when the authors, Sherman Alexie and Jim Boyd, explain their feelings of being misunderstood. The first stanza of the poem, “Dancin' all alone, feelin nuthin' good, it’s been so long since someone understood...” refers to the way that Junior constantly feels at home on the reservation and at Reardan. The titles of the poem, the first stanza of the poem, and the quote from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part –Time Indian, are all examples of how Indians are continuously feeling like they are not completely understood by the people around them.
ReplyDeleteIn the book "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part- Time Indian"by Sherman Alexie it states that "Traveling between Reardan and Wellpinit, between the little white town and the reservation, I always felt like a stranger I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other" (p.118). This means that Junior felt he was playing the role of two individuals because in Wellpinit he believes he's a stranger because he abandoned there Indian culture and left the rez to observe whats beyond.Also in Reardan he feels like a stranger because from all the whites in that school he's the only Indian who is attending there to purse his dreams. In the article from our peanut butter and jelly (IRJ). "Stop the shaming and blaming"it states how teenage pregnancy is viewed to the native American people. It says "I was appalled to learn this week that a 15 year old Shantella Hicks of Gallup, New Mexico,was kicked out of Wingdale Elementary for being pregnant". This shows that no matter what we would want to accomplish everyone doesn't see what were trying to do. Also when we want to move on and ignore our past and learn new things we find many obstacles in our path. When you want to achieve something big like Junior is doing he faces many obstacles and challenges but he successfully fights them. With all this it makes him stronger and wiser then the rest.
ReplyDeleteThe quote "I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other" (pg 118) from the book "The Absolute True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian" shows that Junior feels like he is part Indian at home and part white in school. After Junior arrived at Reardan he has felt less Indian. "And once I arrived at Reardan, I became something less than less than less than Indian (pg 83). This shows that Junior feels like he is becoming another person at Reardan. Junior also thinks that he is not only Indian but something else. "It was like being Indian was my job, but it was only a part time job" (pg118). This shows that Junior believes that he is not only Indian but also another ethnicity.
ReplyDeleteThe following quotation from the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part –Time Indian by Sherman Alexie is showing how Junior is confused about who he is and how people see him. For example in the quote itself he says "I alway felt like a stranger. I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other." This means basically Junior doesn't know who he is as a person. Then white people call him Indian and Indians call him white. That doesn't help at all. Another great example will be from a reading I did in class called John Burnett’s Story of the Trail of Tears. In this artical you relive the exprenscise that John had with some Indians after saving an Indian man. The text says "I saw the helpless Cherokees arrested and dragged from their homes, and driven at the bayonet point into the stockades. And in the chill of a drizzling rain on an October morning I saw them loaded like cattle or sheep into six hundred and forty-five wagons and started toward the west." From this quote you understand the true reason Indians don't like white people and why they call Junior white. He changed schools to be with them so he is "just as bad as them". Then the white kids are not use to being with Indians so that's all they see Junior as an Indian. In the end Junior is confused about who he is, who he wants to be and who to believe in.
ReplyDeleteIn the following quote from The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Arnold Spirit (Junior) states that... "I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other." (p.118) The true meaning of this statement can be deciphered and understood by those that choose and or intend to keep an open mind. The Author Sherman Alexie proposes and idea of how society or environment can influence and determine how a person acts, or feels, even more so what someone may see themselves as. Junior is apart of two different cultures, reluctantly each culture accepts him to a certain degree to where he can feel as though even when he is on the Reservation in Wellpinit or whether he is in Reardan where he attends school , he can still be a little bit of each. This quote is almost the equivalent of saying Junior has a split personality and each side becomes dominant depending on his location. The book itself shows evidence of almost two different people yet being the same individual, having diverse outlooks and attitudes based on peers. For instance when Junior is on the Rez (reservation) He doesn't seem to have much confidence. He pretty much takes whatever people throw at him. Never really making an effort to stand up for himself. Where as In Reardan He has confidence. He challenges people, he appears to be a little more open. Though one thing that is shared between the "half Indian" boy who attends a school in a little white town and the "half white" boy living on an Indian Reservation is that they're definitely the same person and both personalities seem to be great at keeping a part of itself (Junior) reserved. It's almost as if Junior is fearful of mixing the two cultures and blending them within himself. Maybe the whole purpose of this quote (statement) is that a person can be apart of something and know that you possess something that others only perceive as different or unequal. On the Reservation being Indian but feeling half white is what makes Junior, himself...but results in disapproval and he is consider a disgrace to his people. While at Reardan Junior portrays himself as white, being "half Indian" this makes up the person he is. Rather different from the person he presents himself at home... This quote mean that Junior is fighting a war within himself, he doesn't know who he is, or why he is the way he is...but what he does know is the he is half Indian and half white...but a combination of the two is something to ponder...
ReplyDeleteAccording to the book " The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian", Junior says "Traveling between Reardan and Wellpinit, between the little white town and the reservation, I always felt like a stranger. I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other" meaning that he feels like he does not fit in with either race. It also means that Junior feels like he's in between, he doesn't really have a stable way of being recognized. In the book Junior has to travel from the Rez to the school, which are completely different because in the Rez the people are Indian, and in the School the people are White. Junior feels like he is being divided by two places and he is confused on which to choose. In the article, "Transcript of President Andrew Jackson's message to Congress 'On Indian Removal", President Jackson wanted to take over Native American land, and wanted to make Indians become civilized because he believed that they weren't. To make Indians become civilized President Andrew Jackson believed that he had to change their language, religion, and way of being therefore Indians were confused on whether they were white or Indian, as well as Junior is in the book. Both Junior in the book and Native Americans in the article from the IRJ's have the same situation of not knowing what they are and being confused of their culture/race.
ReplyDeleteWhat junior means is that whenever he is in Reardan he feels like he is a part of the white cultures and traditions that's but when he is back home on the Rez he feels like an Indian again , do that's why he said he feels half white and half Indian . Even though junior is not actually white he try's to embrace their culture and he tries to be multicultural
ReplyDeletein this picture it show a girl thinking like who is she,what is she she wonders so junior feels like hes two different people the out side hes one person in the inside hes two.he feels like he has to act a certain way in school cause hes in a white school he cant him self
ReplyDeleteJunior is extremely conflicted about who he is and how he should be in touch with his culture. He is confused if he should focus on being a good Indian or trying to be white. People one the rez and in Reardan even call him two different names. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-- Time Indian, Junior describes the separation, "...I always felt like a stranger. I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other." (pg. 118) Junior is expressing that he is confused and torn. He doesn't fit in at Wellpinit because he goes to a white school and is trying to leave the reservation. But he also doesn't find comfort in Reardan either because the kids make fun of him and they are all white. Junior's feeling can almost be matched with the author of the book, Sherman Alexie's. In an interview he has said “I know a lot more about being white than you know about being Indian,” He feels like he should assimilate with White culture, but doesn't want to leave behind his own. Junior feels bittersweet about his identity and is unsure on how to find it.
ReplyDeleteNo knowing where you belong in society may be a very confusing especially for someone who already has a hard time fitting them self. In Dairy Of A Part-Time Indian" junior states "Traveling between Reardan and Wellpinit, between the little white town and the reservation, I always felt like a stranger.I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other" On pg. 118" it tell how unsure he is of himself. He doesn't know where he belong because he's been treated like a stranger everywhere he goes no one at the Rez likes him because of the decision he made to better himself and in Reardan he's not liked because he is an Indian. The Rez people also feels like junior is an switch out on his tribe so that also leave him in a place of confusion because he doesn't know where he belongs in life. In the (IRJ) "What The Hell, They're Only Indians" By Tim Giago the native Americans aren't giving the opportunity to know much about the real world so they stick to what they now the best which being a alcoholic and they never get to find where they really belong in society.
ReplyDeleteIn the quote, "Traveling between Reardan and Wellpinit, between the little white town and the reservation, I always feel like a stranger. I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other." (P.118) from the book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Junior explains how he constantly has to change who he is according to the place he is at. But even though he is always changing how he acts depending on the place, he always feels like a stranger because he's always an outcast. Whenever he's in the rez, people judge him for going to a white school. They consider him a trader and a want-to-be white kid. In Reardan, he is also judged because he is the only Indian in the school. The white kids feel like they are better than him, and can bring him down so easily. For Junior it is so overwhelming having to constantly change who he is just to please society. Like in the book, "The Battle of Jericho" by Sharon M. Draper, Jericho feels like he has to change in order to be accepted into the Warriors of Distinction, Situations like these, makes a person ask themselves... "Who am I?"
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Who a person is, is who they claim to be, who they understand and are sure they need to be. To figure out who you need to be, a person needs to know where they belong. In every persons life theres always that time they need to know who they really are in order to avoid stagnancy, while some may find it easy others find it more confusing and difficult. In the book THE ABSOLUTE TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN while junior is having an argument with himself about who he really his, he states I always felt like a stranger.I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other. (p.118) This is interesting because it explains that while Junior was trying to figure out who he really his, he felt more like a stranger, he got confused and felt like he needed to classify who he really is into two categories which justifies the fact that finding who you really are could be more difficult than easy.Another evidence is the article Rez Life where the destination of several reservations, their population, and economic status were disclosed. From the information taken to answer the reflection the article explains that the Rez are well known as indians but "they are American as apple pie" as quoted from the article. The people in the Rez are known as Indians but they do not necessarily agree thats who they are, they believe that they are americans because they contributed greatly in making America a possibility. Everybody is out to find where they belong! Many have disputes with family, friends and most importantly self to figure out who they really are. While some succeed and find out who they are others get it more mixed up and lost.
ReplyDeleteIn the quote from the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, "Traveling between Reardan and Wellpinit, between the little white town and the reservation, I always felt like a stranger.
ReplyDeleteI was half Indian in one place and half white in the other." (p.118) Junior feels like when he goes to these different places, he has to act differently. He doesn't act like himself. When he's Reardan, all the white kids think that they're better than them. But, when he's on the Rez, they call him a traitor, because he goes to a white school. He categorized himself as White and Indian. He doesn't know who he truly is.
What Junior is saying in this passage is what we all feel when we're with a different type of people that although they're not like us, we kind of just collide and it feels like we're the same. He brings up something important in this quote because he isn't white, that's common knowledge, but he feels white. It comes to show that race is just an other title that we have come to use and abuse just for the sake of putting people into little boxes. Junior isn't talking about his skin colour, he's no talking about his descendants, he's simply talking about how he feels. If you hang out with a certain type of people, then you too start acting like that stereotype person, and he happened to be hanging out with the white kids so he felt white because know he was in the school, having a day to day life with them.
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ReplyDeleteIn the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, the quote "Traveling between Reardan and Wellpinit, between the little white town and the reservation, I always felt like a stranger. I was half Indian in one place, and half white in the other" means. That Junior feels like hes multi-cultural in a way , he feels like he's two different people inside living two different lives, with different personalities, and misplaced at certain times. In Reardan hes refered to as Junior , and in Wellpinit hes called Arnold Spirit. Hes like two separate people in each place, in Reardan hes just another Indian and in Wellpinit hes the Indian/white boy that left the rez. in search of hope.The Irjs also show how Native Americans may feel misunderstood, strange, or misplaced when they are outside the regular everyday reservations.
Delete"Traveling between Reardan and Wellpinit, between the little white town and the reservation, I always felt like a stranger. I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other." This quote means that junior feels like he is two different people. Maybe He feels like he does not know who he is as an individual because of this. in his new school they treat him differently so this is why he feels like a stranger he is not used to this new type of attention he is getting at reardan he is used to getting bullied on the rez. On the rez when he was playing basketball people didnt expect much of him because they said he sucked. After he transfered the kids at reardan thought he was an amazing basketball player and expected him to do good which was what he did on the court , he performed like he would never perform in his old school.
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ReplyDeleteWhen Junior said that "Travelling from reardan and wellpinit, between the little white town and the reservation, i always felt like a stranger. i was half indian in one place and half white in the other" he meant that he feels like he doesn't fit in because when he's at the rez, they see him as a traitor who left his tribe and in wellpinit he fits in and has hope and feels like he belong when he's doing his work and playing basketball and has his friends cheering him on which he never experienced in reardan.
ReplyDeleteJunior feels torn between two different worlds. At his school, he is just an Indian who doesn't fit in, but on the rez he is seen as a traitor. Junior also feels as if he can't be who he is at school on the rez and vice versa. For example, in school he goes by his first name Arnold, but on the rez he goes by Junior. In How to Write the Great American Indian Novel by Sherman Alexie the author states, "If a white person loves an Indian person, then the white person is Indian by proximity." So if Junior feels half-white in one space and half-Indian in another, it doesn't matter because he still the same person, a Spokane Indian no matter what.
ReplyDeleteWhen someone travels to a different town everyday to a new atmosphere and a new group of people, they start to feel different as they travel back and forth. In the book "Part Time Indian" written by Sherman Alexie, Arnold Spirit has decided to switch his current school at a poor reservation, to a white rich school outside of the reservation. As it says in the excerpt above, "Traveling between Reardan and Wellpinit, between the little white town and the reservation, I always felt like a stranger. I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other (p.118)." Arnold is feeling that when he is in the White school at Reardan, he feels more special because he stands out and the people care about him more. He begins to wounder who he is, Indian or white. In page 84 of the book, Arnold says " First of all, I learned that I was smarter than most of those white kids." When Arnold is at his new school, he realizes that not all of the rich white kids were so smart, as he realizes that he is smarter than most of them. Arnold realizes that no matter how much money, or the skin color, or even the school that people are all people. Now Arnold is confused and is forced to figure himself out as who he really is in the inside and who he really wants to be.
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DeleteWhen a person travels between two players, they could feel different in one place and different in the other, like half this, or half that. Almost like how some people change when they are around certain people. In the book "Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie, the protagonist Junior goes through this a lot. At the Reservation he feels as if he's also half white,because to him, he's the whitest person at the Res. This is because of his way of thinking, and how he acts overall at the Reservation. On the other hand, at Reardan, he feels half Indian there. Its the same idea, except he doesn't fit in too well in Reardan; at first at least. Its proven that he's smarter than some kids at Reardan too, so maybe that is also why this happens. A quote in the book that shows these changes, is,“Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.” At the Reservation, he's struggling with being an individual due to the way most of the people at the Res. And at Reardan, its a whole different story since he's having trouble fitting in with the others also due to who he is. In an article, it states, "Native American youths were more likely than White youths to report drinking and heavy episodic drinking and initiate drinking at a younger age." This shows that because some Native Americans grow up being drunk, they also have trouble being their own individuals.
ReplyDeleteWhen you leave something behind, it can still be apart of you...even if you may adapt to something new. Its kind of like Junior is in one place (physically) but mentally believing he belongs somewhere else. Since junior left wellpinit he has become apart of the rearden community & was considered a trader; He betrayed his tribe. Junior isn't fully accepted by his people anymore. I think this is where the quote displayed above found on pg.118 relates to the title of this reading ("The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie).Being an odd ball (the only one to go to school off the reservation & the only indian at at a white school) Junior feels that he is half indian & half white. But traveling between the two places he feels like a stranger, Trying to find where he belongs. Junior doesn't feel he is completely part of rearden because he is not like them. His family isn't like them. He doesnt have money like them. He doesn't get treated like them. He is just a young poor indian boy, trying to find himself.
ReplyDeleteIn The Absolutely True Diary of a Part –Time Indian the character junior according to the quote "Traveling between Reardan and Wellpinit, between the little white town and the reservation, I always felt like stranger. I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other." on (p.118) feels out of place at home he is considered white and people call by his nick name junior , but at school he goes by the name Arnold spirt. He knows that he is Indian he always talks about what Indians go through in life but he does not claim his self to white but on the reservation he is a traitor and he is called all because he goes to a "White School". Junior feels out of place because at school the people students teachers and other staff treat him like a normal human being. Back on the reservation they would never treat him on normal because ever since he was born he was not considered a normal human because he spoke with a lisp, a stutter, and many other external and internal problems
ReplyDeleteIn The Absolutely True Diary of a Part –Time Indian the character junior according to the quote "Traveling between Reardan and Wellpinit, between the little white town and the reservation, I always felt like stranger. I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other." on (p.118) feels out of place at home he is considered white and people call by his nick name junior , but at school he goes by the name Arnold spirt. He knows that he is Indian he always talks about what Indians go through in life but he does not claim his self to white but on the reservation he is a traitor and he is called all because he goes to a "White School". Junior feels out of place because at school the people students teachers and other staff treat him like a normal human being. Back on the reservation they would never treat him on normal because ever since he was born he was not considered a normal human because he spoke with a lisp, a stutter, and many other external and internal problems in a video an Indian is talking about how a king is like poison he says that plants all connect they all stick together and help to survive and blend in but poison sticks out and junior might feel like the poisonous plant because he is an outcast where ever he goes
ReplyDeletein the book part time indian junior transfers schools.The school he transfered to was reardan highschool.According to the picture junior has two identities because he lives on the reservation where he is known and on the other hand he goes to a all white school.In my opinion he has two personalities because in the reservation his name is arnold and in reardan he is named junior.Its his fault for having two personalities because in reardan he was acting like someone he is not.He is a imposter.
ReplyDeleteIn Part Time Indian Junior transfer schools. Junior transferred to Rearden from Wellpinitt high school. He felt like a stranger because it was a whole new environment. Junior did not know anyone there either they were all white and had abetter education. Also he wasn't use to their ways and couldn't act Indian around and had to adapt to their ways just to fit in. so this caused him to have two different personalities. So he was more of a copy than an original.
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