A New Journey

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, written by Sherman Alexie is a entertaining book where the main character, Junior, lives poverty in the Spokane Indian Reservation. This main character is not like the others; he was born with hydrocephalus, (extra fat in the brain) and gave him some serious defects. He suffers from seizures, poor eyesight, stuttering, and lisping; therefore he is picked up by other kids and gets bullied in school. For his luck his best friend Rowdy is a huge guy who everyone is afraid of and when Junior gets bullied or beaten up, Rowdy does his work. His family is suffering economical problems and Junior sometimes starves for days and he can’t do anything about it. Another problem he has is that he cannot afford medications and when he is sick he has nothing else to do that to wait for the best, or when his dog Oscar got sick, the only thing he could do was kill him so that Oscar can stop suffering. Junior is now in a difficult situation in where he is asked to leave his reservation and attend to another school because there is no more hope in that place and he has to start a new life. He doesn't know what to do but in his heart he knows the best decision is to leave. 

"I wish I were magical, but I am really just a poor-ass reservation kid living with his poor-ass family on the poor-ass Spokane Indian Reservation."

This pretty much determines a lot about Junior. Though he tries to see himself in a positive light, he ultimately comes to the conclusion that he is just a "poor-ass kid." Also we can see in this quote that his economic situation isn't specific to his family, his entire reservation is poor, and a good future is very far away for him and the rest of the community.

"My parents came from poor people who came from poor people who came from poor people, all the way back to the very first poor people."

Poverty is an inherited condition, and it is not a choice. It is something that you are born into and sometimes this can change your life from age 0 until you die. It is something unfair and everyone should have the same rights to shine in their future, but kids like Junior sometimes the only thing they have is hope and wishes and some of them are impossible to complete without wealth. 

JUNIOR SINCE DAY 1

This book has been great so far and it describes the settings and the characters in a way that you can feel connected to. The author makes a really good job using characterization and imagery to bring depth to the story and to make the reader to appreciate this book non-stop. The introduction was loud and clear and every character has their own traits and is recognizable among each other. In other words, this book has been great and very entertaining and I cant wait for the main problem to occur and read the struggle of the character with society to see how this character find a solution and starts to be someone in this cruel world.