After reading at least four chapters and finishing our most recent one entitled "Go Means Go," write a paragraph response to what you've read so far. What was your first reaction to the story? to the characters? to the narrator?
Where do you predict this story will go? In other words, what do you think will happen to the narrator by the time you get to to the end of the story and how do you think he'll get there. Make a reasonable prediction based on what we've read so far....please, no alien abduction answers. This is not sci-fi.
DUE 3/25/15 -- END OF PERIOD
After reading four chapters of the story, I believe that although the boy has to leave the town to get more education it is going to be worth it. There is probably going to be a lot of drama between the parents of the boy and the town. On the other side of the story I think that junior is going to have troubles being excepted to the new school he wants to go to. Even though he may have a tough time I think in the end he will push through and achieve greatness.
ReplyDeleteThe story so far is funnier than what i thought it would be, i was thinking it was going to be a boring read about an indian fighting for his land and blah, blah, blah.
ReplyDeleteI like the characters, i like that theyre real. I've known people like the characters in real life, and for me it just makes the characters real.
The story i think, hopefully, will go in a good way for the main character. That he will finally get the education he deserves and that he will go to college. Maybe his sister will crawl out of the basement and publish a book.
I'm hoping the main character will not end up a hopeless drunk, and that he will escape the rez unharmed.
From reading the last few chapters in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian I have been very impressed with the humor of the book. Coming from a predominantly Tlingit household and having roots to a rural southeast village, I can make many connections. The narrator makes an effort to be as personal as possible; I think it must be very hard to write such an unpleasant memoir of his childhood.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first started to read this book I would not expect it to end the way it did. I salute Sherman Alexie for being able to share his story, not only representing himself as a writer but as a Spokane Indian. His works have been humorous and inspiring all finely wrapped together.
I predict that his parents will let him move when he gets older later on in the book. I think he will get there by going finishing school and will got to college or something. I thought most of the stuff that's been said is like true kind of. My reaction to the book so far has been funny. I like the book so far.
ReplyDeleteI read that that sometimes parents don't want you to succeed they want you to be exactly like they are. I think it happens in many cultures. It's like we don't want our race to succeed because they think it's not fair that they are doing something with their lives. I predict Juniors parents will not let him go but he wouldn't care anyways . He's going to go even without the permission of his parents. He's going to be successful and become someone important
ReplyDeleteMy first reaction to the story was that it is a sad story but the characters put a little humor-twist on it. I first thought the Narrator has a good perspective. I believe the story will take a bad, yet funny, turn. The story will turn into a more serious topic and the narrator will grow serious by the events and by the end, both Junior and the narrator will gain back humor as the conflict resolves in someway; since he wants to switch schools and needs to find a way to get there, along with his history with bullying. Who knows, maybe that will be the conflict- Junior gets beat up, Rowdy gets protective and insists on doing the same or worst back to them.
ReplyDeleteArnold is a troubled, seizure ridden, teenage indian boy. He gets teased for the fact he was born with to much brain fluid. What I've read so far has made me sorta sympathetic towards Arnold's plight. When he talks to his parents about transferring his parents seem kinda proud and kinda worried about him. I think that he'll have some troubles but will eventually gain more confidence.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading four chapters of Diary of a Part Time Indian I have learned that he is an odd looking child with multiple health problems and a hobby for touching himself, in a way he's a sexually frustrated Quazimoto except his name is Junior. My first reaction to this book when we started reading was that it was just another book with a main character that was actually based off the authors being a loser in high school and managed to get lucky with book, I was right. If I had to guess I would assume the main character ends up somewhere in the adult films industry.
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This story is not at all what I thought it would be. This story is the complete opposite of what I thought it’d be like. The plot is exactly what I thought it’d be, it’s just the way the story is presented. The narrator and characters seem overly exaggerated.
ReplyDeleteI think Junior is going to get picked on for being an Indian at his new school. He’ll overcome the struggle of being an Indian in a white environment and go to college and become successful.
He is a kid who has been teased all his life for reasons that were out of his control, such as having to much fluid in his brain. So far it has been about his life and sad and what not.
ReplyDeleteI am guessing that he will gain more confidence in himself, by being in a new enviroment with new people.
What an interesting choice of literature you chose for us.... I have thoughts on why. I think this book is very accurate to many Native villages just like the ones here in south east I've seen it happen to the one my mother grew up in. I as well think that its accurate on how most of the native children grow up in those families or even worse. But the character has every right to be upset with the res. no one is trying to do anything about it. They just get worst. The narration of the boy fits perfectly to his education. His writing has me find many connections in life with growing up in a native household.
ReplyDeleteI think the boy will have an outcome of him realizing how different the world is to him and him getting a better education possibly.