The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

The book I had read was The Absolutely True Diary of a PartTime Indian. It was published in 2007 by Sherman Alexie, he is a novelist, story writer, poet, and filmmaker.  Other books he had written are Indian Killer, War Dances, Ten little Indians, Reservation Blues and other many great books.  The books that he had wrote are very similar, it is about Native Americans or Indians and how they have to live in reservations and are very poor.  The theme of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian is finding hopes, in the book Junior was told to move to a white school to find “hope” but finding hope can be hard when you are a Native American.

This book is about Junior a Native American kid and live with his sister, mom, dad, and grandmother. He is born with too many of cerebrospinal fluid on his brain that made him had many brain surgery, also had more teeth than a normal person have, and his eyes don't use the same glasses. Soon he was told to move away to a school to find a place full of hopes and white people are full of hopes, but going to a white school means betraying your tribe, losing your best friend (Rowdy is his friend), and the whole tribe will also hate you. For example his mother said “the Indians around here will be angry with you”, and then he replied, “shoot, I figure that my fellow tribal members are going to torture me.” Even though knowing all these terrible things that will happen to him, Junior take the courage and went to Reardan, but will he survive his freshmen year at Reardan and create friendship read the book and you'll find out what he did.

I really enjoyed this book because there were many surprises in the book, but you have to read it to know. This book is written for people who like young Adult fiction, and also if you like to kinda know more about Native American or Indian then read this because it does talk about it a little but most part is Junior life. Definitely go read this book online or buy it it can be enjoyable to you, and if you not interested in this book, forget about everything I just said.

Book Review by YangPao V.