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2007 novel by Sherman Alexie

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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First edition cover
Author Sherman Alexie
Illustrator Ellen Forney
Cover artist Kirk Benshoff
Country U.s.a.
Language English
Genre Young adult fiction
Publisher Little, Brown and Company

Publication date

 September 12, 2007[1]
Media type Print (hardback and paperback)
Pages 230
ISBN 978-0-316-01368-0
OCLC 154698238
LC Course PZ7.A382 Ab 2007

The Absolutely Truthful Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a first-person narrative novel by Sherman Alexie, from the perspective of a Native American teenager, Arnold Spirit Jr., also known as "Inferior", a 14-year-one-time promising cartoonist.[two] The book is near Junior's life on the Spokane Indian Reservation and his decision to go to a nearly all-white public high schoolhouse away from the reservation. The graphic novel includes 65 comic illustrations that assist further the plot.[three]

Although critically acclaimed, The Absolutely Truthful Diary has also been the discipline of controversy and has consistently appeared on the almanac list of frequently challenged books since 2008,[4] condign the virtually frequently challenged volume from 2010 to 2019.[5] Controversy stems from the novel'south delineation of alcohol, poverty, bullying, violence, sexuality, profanity and slurs related to homosexuality and mental disability. As a issue, dozens of schools have challenged information technology, and some schools accept banned the book from schoolhouse libraries or inclusion in curricula.[6]

Plot [edit]

The volume follows a xiv-year-former Arnold Spirit Jr., as well known every bit "Junior", living with his family on the Spokane Indian Reservation near Wellpinit, Washington. It is told in diary style, moving from the start of the school yr to the beginning of summer. Information technology includes both Junior'due south written record of his life and his cartoon drawings, some of them comically commenting on his situations, and others more seriously depicting important people in his life. The Absolutely True Diary begins by introducing Junior's birth defects: he was born with hydrocephalus and therefore is minor for his age and suffers from seizures, poor eyesight, stuttering, and a lisp. Every bit a result, Junior has always been picked on past other people on the reservation. Junior's family unit is extremely poor and has express access to opportunities. When Inferior's dog Oscar gets a estrus stroke, his father must put him downwardly (by, tragically, shooting him) considering they cannot afford to take him to a veterinarian. Inferior'south simply friend is his best friend Rowdy, who is abused at home and is known as a swell on the reservation. Despite his intimidating role, Rowdy often stands up for Junior and they bond by enjoying kids' comics.

Junior's first day of high schoolhouse is pivotal to the plot of the novel. When Mr. PP, his geometry teacher, passes him his textbook, he sees his mother's proper noun in it and realizes how old the book must be. Angered and saddened by the fact that the reservation is and then poor that information technology cannot afford new textbooks, Junior violently throws the book, which hits Mr. P'southward face, breaking his olfactory organ. When he visits Junior at domicile, Mr. P convinces Junior to transfer to Reardan High School, sensing a degree of precociousness in the immature teenager. The town of Reardan is far wealthier than Wellpinit—Junior is the only Indian at Reardan.[2] Although Junior'due south family is poor, and although the school is 22 miles away and transportation is unreliable, they support him and do what they can to make it possible for him to stay in the new school. Rowdy, notwithstanding, is upset past Junior'south decision to transfer, and the once-all-time friends have very little contact during the year.

Junior develops a crush on the school'due south most popular white daughter, Penelope, and becomes written report friends with an intelligent student named Gordy. His interactions with the white students give him a better perspective both on white civilization and his ain. He realizes how much stronger his family unit ties are than those of his white classmates, noticing that many of the white fathers never come to their children's school events. Junior also realizes that the white students take different rules than those he grew up with, which is axiomatic when he reacts to an insult from the schoolhouse's star athlete, Roger, by punching him in the face. Junior hit him, as he would have been expected to exercise on the reservation, and he expects Roger to get revenge. But Roger never does; in fact, Roger and his friends show Junior more respect. Junior too gets closer to Penelope, which makes him more popular with the other girls at the school.

Roger suggests that Junior try out for the basketball team, and to Junior's surprise, he makes the varsity squad, which pits him against his former school, Wellpinit, and specifically Rowdy, who is Wellpinit's star freshman and has been leading them to first place. Their beginning friction match demonstrates to Junior just how angry the reservation people are at him for transferring: when he enters the courtroom, they boo and insult him. During the game, Rowdy elbows Junior in the head and knocks him unconscious and one of the fans throws a coin at Inferior. While suffering some injuries from the game, Junior and his jitney become closer every bit Coach tells him that he admires Inferior'southward commitment to the team. Afterward, his grandmother, whom Junior looks up to the most on the reservation, is hit and killed by a drunkard driver. Subsequently his grandmother's funeral, a family friend, Eugene, is shot in the face up by his friend Bobby while drunkard after fighting over alcohol. After grieving and reflecting on his loved ones' deaths, Inferior plays in his basketball game team's 2nd match against Wellpinit. Reardan wins and Junior gets to cake Rowdy. Inferior feels triumphant until he sees the Wellpinit players' faces after their defeat and remembers the difficulties they face up at dwelling house and their lack of hope for a future; ashamed, he runs to the locker room, where he vomits and then breaks down in tears. Later, Junior receives news of the death of his sister and her husband who were killed in a fire at their trailer.

In the grade of the year, Junior and his family suffered many tragedies, many related to alcohol abuse. These events exam Junior'due south sense of hope for a better future and make him wonder about the darker aspects of reservation civilization. Furthermore, the protagonist is torn betwixt the need to fit in his new, all-white school and property on to his Indian heritage, leading him to face criticism from his own customs. Despite these challenges, they as well aid him run across how much his family and his new friends dear him, and he learns to see himself as both Indian and American. Meanwhile, Rowdy realizes that Junior is the simply nomad on the reservation, which makes him more of a "traditional" Indian than everyone else in town. In the terminate, Junior and Rowdy reconcile while playing basketball game and resolve to correspond no matter where the futurity takes them.

Background [edit]

The Absolutely Truthful Diary of a Part-Time Indian is semi-autobiographical.[seven] The novel started every bit a department of Sherman Alexie'due south family memoir, but after the persistence of a young adult editor, he decided to use information technology equally a basis for his first young adult novel.[8] Sherman Alexie commented, "If I were to judge at the pct, information technology would be about seventy-eight percent true."[ix] Like Arnold, Sherman Alexie grew up on the Spokane Reservation in Wellpinit with an alcoholic father.[10] [11] He was also born with hydrocephalus, but Alexie did not have any speech impediments.[12] Alexie was as well teased for his government-issued, horn-rimmed spectacles and nicknamed "The World" by fellow students considering of his giant head.[10] Another similarity betwixt Alexie and his grapheme Arnold is that Alexie also left the reservation to nourish loftier school at Reardan Loftier, just Alexie chose to go to Reardan to achieve the required credits he needed to go to college.[10] Alexie became the star player of Reardan's basketball game team and was the only Indian on the team also the school'southward team mascot.[10] The scene where Arnold finds that he is using the aforementioned textbook his female parent did xxx years before he is fatigued from Alexie's own experiences. The just difference between Alexie's life and the novel is that Alexie threw the book against the wall out of anger, and did non hit anyone equally Junior did.[ix]

In his own writing, Alexie unapologetically describes himself as "kind of mixed up, kind of odd, not traditional. I'm a rez kid who's gone urban, and that's what I write virtually. I have never pretended to be otherwise."[13] "A smart Indian is a dangerous person," Alexie states in a personal essay, "[a smart Indian is] widely feared and ridiculed past Indians and non-Indians alike."[14] Inferior encapsulates this blazon of feel when he receives strong censure both from his tribal community and from his peers and teachers at his new school, Reardan. In the personal story, Alexie's connected explanation of his ain experience is reflected in Inferior's.[14] Alexie recalls, "I fought with my classmates on a daily footing. They wanted me to stay tranquility when the non-Indian teacher asked for answers….[W]e were Indian children who were expected to be stupid. …[W]e were expected to neglect in the non-Indian world."[14] Through Junior's success at Reardan and his realizations about life on the reservation, Alexie represents a possibility for the success of Native American children—by defeating the expectation that he is doomed to fail, Junior defeated what he idea he couldn't.[14] Alexie'southward reflections over again demonstrate that Junior's experiences are semi-autobiographical.

Characters [edit]

Agnes (Adams) Spirit (Inferior's Mother)
A Spokane Indian, Agnes has lived on the reservation her unabridged life. She is a bad liar, likes to read books, and is considered to be very smart by her children. She is an ex-alcoholic and is seen as eccentric by Junior: "She's a man record recorder," Junior explains, "Really, my mom can read the newspaper in fifteen minutes and tell me baseball scores, the location of every war, the latest guy to win the lottery, and the high temperature in Des Moines, Iowa."[a]
Arnold Spirit (Junior'southward Father)
An alcoholic, just very supportive. Even though he sometimes disappears, he tries to take intendance of his family and he often drives Junior to Reardan. He plays the piano, the guitar, and the saxophone. He could have been a jazz musician, given more time and coin.[a]
Arnold Spirit Jr. AKA Junior
Nicknamed Junior, Arnold is a fourteen-yr-onetime male child who lives on the Spokane Indian Reservation. He enjoys playing basketball and cartoon cartoons in his gratis time. Inferior and his family, forth with the others on the reservation, experience the daily furnishings of poverty and fiscal shortcomings—in that location is often not enough food to swallow in their abode or enough money to fill up the gas tank in the car, forcing him to hitchhike to school or not go at all. He is incredibly smart; he transfers from the school on the reservation to Reardan, where almost all the students are white.
Double-decker
The motorcoach of the basketball team at Reardan High School. Unlike the teachers who are apprehensive of Junior's attendance at Reardan, the coach pays no attention to Junior's race. He is supportive of Junior both on and off the court.[b] The coach becomes a father effigy for Junior in many ways, but also becomes an exemplary friend, helping Junior through difficult times dealing with playing against his home reservation. The novel never gives a proper noun to him, as he is e'er referred to as jitney.
Dawn
When Arnold Spirit was twelve years former, he loved this girl. She was his starting time crush. He thought well-nigh Dawn when he said to Rowdy that he loved Penelope.
Eugene
The best friend of Inferior's begetter. "Eugene was a prissy guy, and like an uncle to me, merely he was drunk all the time,"[c] Junior reveals. He becomes an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) for the tribal ambulance service, and, for a cursory time, drives a 1946 Indian Chief Roadmaster. Eugene dies after his close friend Bobby shoots him in the face during a dispute over alcohol. Bobby hangs himself in jail.
Gordy
Gordy is a student who attends Reardan, wears glasses, and does everything in the proper name of scientific discipline. Gordy always speaks in a sophisticated and proper manner throughout the novel. He is one of the smartest students at the schoolhouse and he eventually becomes Junior's get-go real friend at Reardan. Gordy too helps Junior with schoolwork and encourages his enjoyment of reading books.
Grandmother Spirit
Junior'south Grandma. She is Junior's source of communication and back up until she dies after being striking by a drunk driver while walking on the side of the road on her style home subsequently a powwow. Her dying words were "Forgive him," which meant that she wanted her family to forgive the drunk driver, Gerald, for hitting and killing her. Ironically, she never had a drinkable in her life. She was as well extremely tolerant and loving of all people. Inferior's grandma is his favorite person in the earth. "My grandmother'southward last act on globe was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance," Junior recalls on page 157.[d]
Mary
Junior's sister. Mary has long hair and is nicknamed "Mary Runs Away". She likes to write romance stories and is considered by Inferior to exist "beautiful and stiff and funny". She was smart, simply did not accept the skills to get a job.[e] After high schoolhouse, she did not go to college or go a task; instead, she moved to Montana with her new married man she met at the reservation casino. Mary and her new hubby die of a burn in their trailer dwelling house after a partygoer forgot near a humid pot of soup. A mantle drifted onto the hot plate and the trailer was quickly engulfed. Junior was told that Mary never woke upwardly considering she was too drunk.
Melinda
Melinda works in the role of Reardan High School. She is l years one-time.
Mr. P

Junior's white geometry instructor at Wellpinit High School. He mentored Mary, Junior's older sister, and wants to help Junior get out the reservation. Mr. P regrets the way he treated his students when he was younger. He had been taught to vanquish the Indian out of the children. He is short and bald, and incredibly absent. He often forgets to come up to schoolhouse, just "he doesn't wait much of [his students]."[f] A major turning betoken in Diary 'due south plot occurs when Inferior throws his math book at Mr. P afterwards a realization virtually the reservation'south poverty.

Penelope
Junior'due south beat and skilful friend from Reardan High. She has blonde hair and Junior thinks that she is very attractive. She enjoys helping others, is bulimic, and has a racist father named Earl. She is popular and plays on the Reardan volleyball team. She is obsessed with leaving the small boondocks behind and traveling the world. She initially decides to be close with Junior, fed upwards with the conformity of the town; but closer to the cease of the novel, she does become Junior'southward girlfriend.
Roger
Roger is a jock at Reardan Loftier School. Upon meeting Junior, Roger uses racial slurs to demean him, and eventually it gets so racist that Junior retaliates past punching him in the face. Contrary to Junior'south expectations, Roger and then begins to respect Junior, and the two gradually become friends. Furthermore, Roger obtains a office as a kind of advisor and protector of Junior, occasionally helping him monetarily and other times with communication.
Rowdy
Rowdy is Junior's best friend.[xv] He is "long and lean & strong like a snake."[yard] Throughout the novel, Rowdy's father abuses him, which leads to his neat-similar behavior. He likes reading comics, such as Archie. The comics help him escape the troubles of the real world. Junior and Rowdy take been the best of friends since they were petty, and Rowdy has oft taken on the office of Inferior's protector. Notwithstanding, as Junior leaves the reservation schoolhouse, Rowdy feels betrayed by his best friend and turns into Junior's "arch nemesis" during the novel.[15] Even though Rowdy develops a passionate hatred for Junior through the betrayal he felt, they are able to eventually overcome their state of affairs and get friends once again by the stop of the novel.
Ted
This billionaire came to Grandmother Spirits funeral to requite back a powwow dancing outfit. But it was non an outfit from the Spokane Indians and so he collection abroad.

Reception [edit]

Reviews [edit]

Bruce Barcott of The New York Times said in a 2007 review, "For fifteen years now, Sherman Alexie has explored the struggle to survive between the grinding plates of the Indian and white worlds. He's done it through various characters and genres, simply The Admittedly True Diary of a Function-Time Indian may be his all-time piece of work still. Working in the voice of a fourteen-year-one-time forces Alexie to strip everything down to action and emotion, so that reading becomes more similar listening to your smart, funny all-time friend recount his twenty-four hour period while waiting after school for a ride home."[16]

The New York Times opined that this was Alexie's "first foray into the young adult genre, and it took him only one book to master information technology."[sixteen] The San Francisco Chronicle praised it as "[a] great book full of hurting, but luckily, the pain is spiked with joy and humor."[17]

Reviewers as well commented on Alexie's treatment of hard problems. Delia Santos, a publisher for the civilrights.org page, noted, "Alexie fuses words and images to depict the difficult journey many Native Americans confront. … Although Junior is a young adult, he must face the reality of living in utter poverty, argue with the discrimination of those outside of the reservation, cope with a community and a family ravaged and often killed by alcoholism, break cultural barriers at an all-White high school, and maintain the perseverance needed to hope and work for a better future."[18] [19] Andrew Fersch, a publisher for Vail Daily, commented, "most folks block out well-nigh of their teenage retentiveness, [while] Alexie embraced it with humor."[20]

In some other review published in November 2016 by Dakota Student website, author Breanna Roen says that she has never seen the way that this volume, The Admittedly True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, conveys so much happiness, honey, and grief.[21] Alexie's work in this novel can't be compared to other Native American books; it is "a whole different ball game," Roen asserts.[21] The review continues to country that the theme regarding identity, dwelling house, race, poverty, tradition, friendship, promise and success is seen throughout the entire book, leaving the readers on the edge of their seats and wanting more than.[21] Roen says that she could inappreciably put the book down and is avidly looking for something similar.[21]

In the review, "A Brave Life: The Real Struggles of a Native American Boy make an Uplifting Story" published in The Guardian, author Diane Samuels says that Alexie's book has a "combination of drawings, pithy turns of phrase, candor, tragedy, despair and hope … [that] makes this more than than an entertaining read, more than an engaging story about a North American Indian child who makes it out of a poor, expressionless-end groundwork without losing his connectedness with who he is and where he's from."[22] In some areas, Samuels criticizes Alexie'south stylistic reliance on the cartoons.[22] Still, she continues to say that for the nigh part, Sherman Alexie has a talent for capturing the details and overview in a well-adult and snappy way.[22] Samuels finishes her review by stating that: "Opening this volume is like meeting a friend you'd never make in your actual life and being given a slice of his world, inner and outer. Information technology's humane, authentic and, nearly of all, it speaks."[22]

In the review "Using The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian to Teach Well-nigh Racial Formation," Miami University professor Kevin Talbert says that Alexie chose to narrate the story through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Junior to transport his readers into "uncomfortable or incongruent spaces."[23] He continues to say that the novel'south writing allows for topics nigh course and racial struggles to exist intertwined with more mutual adolescent struggles similar sexual desires, controlling hormones, and managing relationships with friends and family unit. Furthermore, Talbert believes that, unlike other Young Adult novels, this book captures issues of race and form in a way that reaches a wider audience.[23] The article too states that Inferior's narration in the novel sends a message to society, "that adolescents take important things to say, that existence fourteen years one-time matters."[23]

Critical estimation [edit]

Dr. Bryan Ripley Crandall, managing director of the Connecticut Writing Project at Fairfield Academy, posits in his critical essay "Adding a Inability Perspective When Reading Adolescent Literature: Sherman Alexie's The Admittedly True Diary of a Office-Time Indian" that the volume presents a progressive view of disability.[24] Arnold has what he calls "water on the brain", which would correctly be referred to every bit hydrocephalus. Crandall points out that Arnold is never held back by his disability, but in fact laughs at himself: "With my big feet and pencil torso, I looked like a capital L walking down the road."[1] Co-ordinate to Crandall, the illustrations past Ellen Forney, which are meant to be the cartoons that Arnold draws, correspond a new way for the disabled narrator to communicate with the readers: they "initiate further interpretations and conversations virtually how students perceive others who are non like them, particularly individuals with disabilities."[24] Arnold's hydrocephaly doesn't prevent him from becoming a basketball star at his new school. His disability fades as a plot device as the book progresses.[ane]

David Goldstein, in his paper "Sacred Hoop Dreams: Basketball in the Piece of work of Sherman Alexie", analyses the importance of basketball in the novel. He suggests that information technology represents "the tensions between traditional lifeways and contemporary social realities."[25] According to Goldstein, Junior/Arnold sees losing at basketball as "losing at life." The Reardan kids are eternal winners because of their victories on the court: "Those kids were magnificent."[ane] Goldstein notes how basketball game is as well a sport of poverty in America — "it costs well-nigh nothing to play, and and so is advisable for the reservation."[25]

Nerida Weyland'south commodity, "Representations of Happiness in Comedic Young Adult Fiction: Happy Are the Wretched" describes how Junior/Arnold is an example of the complex, not-innocent child often presented in modern young adult literature.[26] Equally detailed in Alyson Miller's "Unsuited to Age Group: The Scandals of Children's Literature," club has created an "innocence of the arcadian child"; Alexie's protagonist is the opposite of this effigy.

According to Weyland, Alexie doesn't play by the rules – the apply of sense of humor in the book is directed at established "ability hierarchies, dominant social ideologies or topics deemed taboo".[26] Weyland suggests that the outsized outcome of this feature of the book is revealed in the controversy its publication caused, equally information technology was banned and challenged in schools all over the country.[26] Weyland states that Alexie's book with Forney's black-one-act illustrations explore themes of "racial tension, domestic violence, and social injustice" in a never-before-done fashion.[26] As an instance, Alexie uses the anecdote of the killing of Junior's dog, Oscar, to expand on the idea of social mobility, or lack thereof – Junior states that he understood why the dog had to be killed rather than taken to the vet, because his parents were poor and they "came from poor people who came from poor people who came from poor people, all the way back to the very beginning poor people."[26] [27] Weyland notes how readers are likely to be uncomfortable with Inferior/Arnold/Alexie making light of topics of such importance (racism, poverty, alcoholism) through the utilise of dark one-act.[26]

Awards [edit]

Alexie won three major "yr'southward best" awards for Diary, a biannual award for books past and well-nigh Native Americans, and a California award that annually covers the last four years. The awards are listed below:

  • 2007 National Book Accolade for Young People's Literature.[28]
  • 2008 American Indian Youth Literature Awards. American Indian Library Association Best Young Developed Book. In 2018 AILA rescinded this award, due to many allegations of predatory behaviour.[29]
  • 2008 American Library Association'south Best Books for Immature Adults[thirty]
  • 2008 Boston Earth-Horn Volume Award, Fiction and Poetry.[9]
  • 2009 Odyssey Honor as the year's "best audiobook for children or young adults", read by Alexie (Frederick, Doctor: Recorded Books, LLC, 2008, ISBN 1-4361-2490-5).[31]
  • 2010 California Immature Reader Medal, Young Developed Book (eligible to win in one case during its kickoff 4 years).[32]

Diary was also named to several annual lists including three past the United States' library industry (not including beingness banned).

  • "Best Books of 2007", Schoolhouse Library Journal. [33]
  • 2008 "Tiptop X Best Books for Young Adults", Young Adult Library Services Clan (YALSA).[34]
  • 2009 "Astonishing Audiobooks for Young Adults", YALSA.[35]

Controversy [edit]

The Admittedly Truthful Diary of a Part-Time Indian has been at the eye of many controversies due to the book's themes and content, besides as its target audience of immature adults. The book has both fervent supporters and concerned protesters: "some people idea it was the greatest book ever, and some people idea it was the nearly perverted book ever," said Shawn Tobin, a superintendent of a Georgia schoolhouse district.[36]

Censorship [edit]

The Admittedly Truthful Diary of a Function-Time Indian was the most-challenged book in the United States from 2010 to 2019[v] and was named 1 of the top ten nigh challenged books in 2010 (ii), 2011 (v), 2012 (two), 2013 (iii), 2014 (ane), 2017 (2), 2018 (9), and 2020 (5).[4] The book has been challenged for the following reasons:[37] [4]

  • Acknowledging poverty, alcoholism, and sexuality
  • Allegations of sexual misconduct past the author
  • Offensive language/Profanity
  • Cultural insensitivity
  • Accounted anti-family
  • Depictions of bullying
  • Gambling
  • Racism
  • References to drugs, alcohol, and smoking
  • Religious viewpoint (anti-Christian content)
  • Sex education
  • Sexual references
  • Unsuited for age group
  • Violence
Antioch Township, Illinois (2009)

Local parents caught wind of the book's references to alcoholism, sensitive cultural topics, and sexual innuendos: at the starting time of June, seven Antioch parents attended a 117th District Schoolhouse Lath meeting to request that the book be removed from the curriculum.[38] However, the novel was not banned from Antioch Loftier Schoolhouse's curriculum following the controversy. Instead, the English Section introduced an culling selection for summer reading—students who preferred to read John Hart's Down River were permitted to do so.[39]

Crook County, Oregon (2009)

In Prineville, Oregon one parent raised objections to the school lath about how the volume contains references to masturbation and is generally inappropriate. In response, the Crook County School District temporarily removed the volume from classrooms. The removal was upheld, just the book remained bachelor to students in schoolhouse libraries.[39]

Stockton, Missouri (2010)

A parent complained to the Stockton School District Lath about the violence, language, and sexual content. The lath voted to ban the book from school libraries. The conclusion was voted upon multiple times, merely the ban was ultimately upheld.[39]

Newcastle, Wyoming (2010)

In 2010, Wyoming'south Newcastle Eye School attempted to include Diary in its 8th grade English curriculum. At kickoff, the commune allowed it under the premise that children who were non allowed to read it would bring a signed newspaper assuasive them to read the alternate book Tangerine. About two weeks after the declaration was made to the 8th graders, the school board banned teaching information technology in a curriculum, but even so allowed it in the library for those who wished to read it.[40]

Helena, Montana (2011)

In 2011, 1 parent in the Helena School Commune objected to the book's "obscene, vulgar, and pornographic linguistic communication." However, the school district voted to retain the book in schools.[39]

Richland, Washington (2011)

In 2011, a 9th class Language Arts teacher at the Richland Public High School piloted Diary in his curriculum, and with the help of his students, reported to the school's board on the inclusion of the book in a high schoolhouse curriculum.[41] Parents of students in the class were notified alee of time that the instructor was interested in the volume; every bit a result, parents were able to opt their pupil out of reading the novel if they and so chose.[41]

In June 2011, the school board voted 3–2 to remove the book from the school entirely. Lath members had not read the book but cited the separate Instructional Materials Commission vote as the reason to ban the novel.[41]

The board members afterward learned that some members of the Instructional Materials Committee had non read the book, and so the board members agreed to vote once more, but read it for themselves before the vote.[42] On July eleven, 2011, the school board voted 4–1 to reverse its earlier conclusion.[42]

Dade County, Georgia (2012)

In 2012, the volume was removed from the Dade County school libraries and required high school reading lists due to complaints about "vulgarity, racism, and anti-Christian content".[39]

Mattapoisett, Massachusetts (2012)

In 2012 in the Erstwhile Rochester Regional Junior High School, the book was challenged as an 8th grade English consignment, but ultimately retained by the school.[39]

Wedlock Canton, New Bailiwick of jersey (2012)

In 2012, the book was challenged in 9th grade English classes in Westfield High School for "very sensitive material in the book including excerpts on masturbation among other explicit sexual references, encouraging pornography, racism, religious irreverence, and strong language." However, the schoolhouse lath decided to retain the volume as part of the curriculum.[39]

Yakima, Washington (2013)

Sherman Alexie'south Diary was challenged in his home state of Washington, only a few hours drive away from where the semi-autobiographical work is set. The dispute over the book'southward appropriateness for high school students took place in the West Valley School District in 2013. Specifically, many parents claimed that the book contains inappropriate and sexual content and language that are unsuitable for high school students.[43]

As of at present, there take been four official complaints near the book that have been recorded.[43] Resultantly, Alexie's book was removed from 10th-grade classes and fabricated supplemental literature for 11th and 12th grades, instead of required reading.[43]

Queens, New York (2014)

A center school in Queens removed Diary from required reading due to the references to masturbation, which the school considered inappropriate for heart schoolers.[39]

Billings, Montana (2014)

The book was challenged on the 10th grade reading list at Skyview High Schoolhouse, where a parent complained, "This book is, shockingly, written past a Native American who reinforces all the negative stereotypes of his people and does it from the rough, obscene, and unfiltered viewpoint of a 9th-grader growing up on the reservation." The volume was non removed from the school list.[39]

Jefferson Canton, W Virginia (2013)

A Jefferson Canton parent complained about the novel's graphic nature, resulting in the book being pulled from all county schools.[39]

Sweetness Dwelling house, Oregon (2014)

Some parents of students of a Sweet Home Junior High English language form voiced concerns about the book's content, specifically the objectification of women and young girls. The concerns resulted in the book being officially challenged.[39]

West Ada School District, Idaho (2014)

In April 2014, Diary was pulled from the Meridian district's supplemental reading list after pregnant parental disapproval of the novel'southward field of study matter.[44] The volume had been a part of its curriculum since 2010. Students protested to remove the ban but were unsuccessful.[44]

Co-ordinate to Marshall University Libraries, in 2015 the text was banned from the Height (ID) school districts' required texts due to parents complaining that it "discusses masturbation, contains profanity, and has been viewed as anti-Christian."[45]

Brunswick, North Carolina (2014)

On July 1, 2014, a grandmother in Brunswick, North Carolina, filed a complaint confronting Diary at Cedar Grove Middle Schoolhouse. Two weeks later, the schoolhouse's Media Advisory Commission met and unanimously agreed to keep the book in its curriculum because the committee saw the value in "the realistic depiction of bullying and racism, likewise as a need for tolerance and sensation of cultural differences."[46] The grandmother, Frances Wood, appealed the conclusion, remaining determined that "[t]his book is not morally acceptable… Everything in it is degrading. At that place's nothing uplifting in information technology."[47]

One year later, Wood challenged the book yet again, this time at Due west Brunswick High Schoolhouse. Forest lost this protest against the book when the master of Westward Brunswick High Schoolhouse responded a few days later on that the canton schoolhouse board's policy was that their decision on a volume held for all schools in the county, and that those decisions could not be revisited for two years.[48]

Highland Park, Texas (2015)

In 2015, the superintendent of the Highland Park Contained School District suspended Diary from the school approved book list. The interruption was very brief, and the superintendent reinstated the volume before long later on.[39]

Hastings-On-Hudson, New York (2020)

In 2020, the book was assigned to an 8th grade English language Arts form at Farragut Middle School. Upon a passage containing the word nigger and sexual intercourse with an animate being beingness read aloud in class without adequate preparation by the teacher, it was reported that this caused "psychological harm" to an African American educatee and that members of the school community felt "uncomfortable and marginalized while reading and discussing this book." It was decided to immediately terminate discussion of the book to prevent further harm. The book volition exist re-evaluated past the English department for future use.[49]

Defence of the novel [edit]

Alexie has defended the novel past emphasizing the positive learning opportunities readers gain from exposure to these harsh aspects of gimmicky life. He describes his own experience of adults trying to hide and protect him from suffering and hardship:

"all during my childhood, would-be saviors tried to rescue my beau tribal members. They wanted to rescue me. But, even then, I could only laugh at their platitudes. In those days, the cultural conservatives idea that KISS and Blackness Sabbath were going to impede my moral evolution. They wanted to protect me from sex when I had already been raped. They wanted to protect me from evil though a future serial killer had already driveling me. They wanted me to profess my beloved for God without considering that I was the child and grandchild of men and women who'd been sexually and physically abused past generations of clergy."[50]

Alexie said that students were also able to connect his story to their own difficult experiences with "depression, attempted suicide, gang warfare, sexual and physical abuse, absentee parents, poverty, racism, and learning disabilities". He noted:

"I have yet to receive a letter from a child somehow debilitated by the domestic violence, drug corruption, racism, poverty, sexuality, and murder contained in my volume. To the opposite, kids as young every bit ten have sent me autobiographical letters written in crayon, complete with drawings inspired by my book, that are simply as dark, terrifying, and redemptive equally anything I've ever read."[50]

The volume has been credited with addressing the experiences and issues faced by Native American students in the public schoolhouse system.[51]

Some have fifty-fifty discussed the claim of the book while also mentioning the risks of exposing children to the harsher scenes. In an essay on censorship, young developed fiction author Raquel Rivera wrote:

"It is an first-class book and happens to have much useful material for a boy entering his teens... Only there is a scene in Part-Time Indian in which a racist joke is told, and the protagonist is compelled to fight. For me, the joke was nil more than a tool to propel the plot. In the story information technology is duly vanquished and forgotten. But the joke stayed with my son, and he continued to be bothered by it."[52]

Historical trauma of the Spokane Indians [edit]

The autobiographical nature of the novel reflects the internal struggle for identity that Alexie dealt with as a child. His personal experiences then necktie into the idea of the trauma that Native American tribes live with equally they however struggle to rest assimilation with identity. This phenomenon has been explored and analyzed since the publication of the novel.

Jan Johnson, clinical assistant professor of American Indian and African American Literatures at the University of Idaho, utilizes Alexie's novel to explore the idea of marginalization and oppression in Native American communities in her article, "Healing The Soul Wound".[53] Johnson identifies the "soul wound," the deep-seated trauma Native Americans have endured since colonization and go on to struggle with.[53] This term explains how the consistent depiction of Native American people as suffering and helpless has become ingrained into their identity.[53] Johnson writes, "Alexie feels that—as a result of this grim history—suffering and trauma are fundamental to the feel of existence Native American. Ceaseless suffering attains an epistemological status."[53] Johnson uses the novel to illustrate her thoughts about the future of the Native American culture. The Spokane Indians, and tribes like them, face the trauma of searching for an identity in a world that attempts to envelop 1'southward culture. Johnson argues that Alexie uses Diary to correspond the potential for healing the traumas that Native American tribes have faced throughout history.[54]

In Sherman Alexie, A Drove of Critical Essays, critics Jeff Burglund and Jan Roush interpret Jan Johnson'south definition of the soul wound as "intergenerational suffering."[55] On pages ten and 11 of Diary, Alexie elaborates on the concept of generational poverty when he reveals that Junior's family unit is too poor to care for the family'due south sick canis familiaris: "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," he writes.[56] Inferior is "wounded," which Alexie shows through Junior'south alcoholic father, his misguided sister, and his defeating social life. Through Diary, Alexie aims to make a larger argument almost the need for change in both the internal construction and the external perception of Native American communities in the United States.[14] Columbus and his men colonized the new land they encountered in horrid ways that diminished Native people of anything they had. Trigger-happy invasions by Columbus and his crew left the Indians with nothing to call their own. Sacred state, animals, plants, and relatives were all lost during the time of what Maria Yellow Brave Heart and Lemyra DeBruyn called the "American Indian Holocaust."[54] The ones that were somewhat fortunate enough to stay alive were brainwashed of everything they knew, and were forced to believe and follow the religious practices of the Christian faith despite the fact information technology was not what they believed in. The Indians were also forced to relocate and leave everything, which led to many of them dying due to affliction or unbearable conditions they had to walk in.[57] Some Native peoples are all the same affected by this trauma.[57] Many contend that "historical unresolved grief" is the cause of high crime rates and mental health issues amidst Native American people today.[57] Maria Xanthous Horse Brave Heart and Lemyra DeBruyn explain the meaning backside "historical disenfranchised grief" and how it is overlooked past Americans. American Indians are experiencing disenfranchised grief because of how this group of people was and still is seen as fell, emotionless, and defective of right or reason to mourn and grieve.[57]

Multicultural literature [edit]

There are many arguments for why The Absolutely True Diary of a Role-Time Indian is an example of multicultural literature. A textbook chosen Sherman Alexie in the Classroom was recently published in social club to help teachers and educators explore how multicultural texts tin can affect the learning consequence of students––especially for Native Americans in the modernistic times. This text explores the significance and the message behind the works of Sherman Alexie, including poesy, novels, films strips, and much more.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Office-Time Indian is a multicultural text that many English teachers use in order to educate their students about the Native American heritage. The author, Alexie, himself is of the Spokane heritage, and as a result, he uses his own background and personal experiences to write this specific novel in a semi-autobiographical format.[58] Teachers refer to the textbook, Sherman Alexie in the Classroom, to claim that the book provides an opportunity to brainwash non-Native American students to "work through their white guilt and develop anti-racist perspectives."[58]

In an interview, Alexie stated that, "The primary audience is college-educated white women, so that's who reads everything. If you lot want to talk about an indication of that--certainly this volume is geared towards immature adults, but I was at the American Library Association convention in DC a couple of weeks agone, and at that place were something like 15,000 librarians there and 99 percent of them were white women so ... Thank God ... they seem to be the people most willing to ignore barriers and boundaries and to achieve across, so that's who my audience is in reality. In this book, specifically, I'one thousand really hoping information technology reaches a lot of native kids certainly, but too poor kids of any variety who feel trapped by circumstance, by culture, by low expectations, I'm hoping it helps them get out."[59]

Alexie likewise wants his "literature to concern the daily lives of Indians. [He] think[s] about Native American literature is so obsessed with nature that [he doesn't] recall it has any useful purpose". Alexis was quoted saying, "In that location'due south a child out there, some boy or daughter who will be that great writer, and hopefully they'll come across what I do and get inspired by that".[threescore]

Furthermore, Alexie'southward texts encourage educators to initiate discussions in their classrooms nigh the Native American culture equally a whole.[58] Many stereotypes of Native Americans be in the United states; therefore, many people have erroneous views of what modern Native Americans' lives are similar. 11th and twelfth class English teacher, Bryan Ripley Crandall, believes that learning most different cultural backgrounds creates a diverse learning surround.[61] Crandall also states that the Native American narrative of Alexie's book is a mode of giving minority students an access to their ain groundwork and heritage within an American education.[61] Therefore, Alexie's multicultural literature of The Absolutely True Diary of a Office-Time Indian provides an expanded perspective of the daily lives of Native Americans living on the reservation in today's earth.[58]

Media [edit]

Audiobook [edit]

The author Sherman Alexie himself narrates the audiobook of The Admittedly Truthful Diary Of A Part-Time Indian, which has won many awards for its cosmos of an idiosyncratic, first-person voice.[62] "Alexie is the perfect choice to read his own story," notes critic Kristi Jemtegaard.[62] Alexie is able to convey the messages that the missing cartoons, caricatures, and sketches reveal in the printed text.[62] Alexie, who has feel as an orator, won the Taos Poetry Circus Earth Heavyweight Championship honor three years in a row for his oratorical virtuosity.[10]

Motion picture adaptation [edit]

According to The Hollywood Reporter, in December 2016, Fob 2000 Pictures acquired the rights to produce The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. The producing squad consists of Hugh Jackman, Wyck Godfrey, Isaac Klausner, and Lauren Shuler Donner. The film is currently under development, and a set release appointment has not been appear as of still.

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ a b Alexie, p. 13.
  2. ^ Alexie, p. 148.
  3. ^ Alexie, p. 70.
  4. ^ Alexie, p. 157.
  5. ^ Alexie, p. 28.
  6. ^ Alexie, p. 32.
  7. ^ Alexie, p. 15.

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External links [edit]

  • "The Absolutely Truthful Diary of a Part-Fourth dimension Indian information visualization and analysis" (online and PDF). LitCharts.com. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  • Scholastic's The Admittedly Truthful Diary of a Part-Time Indian Teaching Guide. Retrieved 31 May 2017

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