He never explains why he always uses this term over the nicer correct term Native American. Also Junior always uses the term “Indian” to describe himself and the other Natives on the Spokane Reservation. His parents are alcoholics, his sister is a hermit, and his best friend is abused by his father. Arnold is a hero for his people because even though his tribe labels him a “traitor” he is the only Indian who leaves the reserve to live his dream and break the stereotypes of Indians, and he is also strong willed.Īt the beginning, Arnold Spirit describes himself as a “stuttering hydrocephalic living on an impoverished Indian reservation where he is regularly bullied and beaten up” (pg. Furthermore, he’s considered a traitor after he switches to Reardon the new school, a school with no other Native Americans. Junior isn’t satisfied with his life, since he’s so poor, but he gets along somehow.
His school is admittedly designed for Indians like him to fail and to give up hope. He lives in extreme poverty and is surrounded by alcoholism, drug addiction and violence. He gets beaten up every day of his life by fellow Native Americans for any and every reason. Junior is born with special needs, too much cerebral fluid in his brain a stutter and lisp eyesight problems needing big black rimmed dorky glasses, as we soon learn and, to make it all worse, he is a self-described nerd who is teased and bullied all the time. He also talks a lot with his grandmother. He grows up on the Reservation with his mother and father and his sister Mary, who is a hermit. In the book “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie, the reader learns about the life journeys of Arnold Spirit, a Native American teenager from WellPoint, Reservation in Spokane, Washington.
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