The True Hour from India-The Time-Part is a novel by Sherman Alexie and illustrated by Ellen Forney. The book won several awards, and is the first young adult fiction work by Alexie, a comedian, screenwriter, film producer and songwriter who has previously written adult novels, short stories, poems, and scenarios. Alexie stated, "I [wrote the book] because so many librarians, teachers, and teenagers kept asking me to write it."
Regardless of the high acknowledgment and some of his achievements, The The Absolutely-True Diary of the Time-Share India also received many objections and has consistently appeared on the annual list of books that the book has often challenged since 2008. The controversy stems from the discussion of novels about alcohol, poverty, bullying, violence, sexuality, profanity and contempt associated with homosexuality and mental disability. As a result, some schools have banned the book from the school library or incorporated into the curriculum.
The Absolutely True Diary is the first person narrative from the perspective of the teenager Native American Arnold Spirit Jr., also known as "Junior", a 14-year-old novice cartoonist. This book is a story of age, detailing the life of Junior in Spokane Indian Reservation, and his decision to go to a white-school high school from reservation. Graphic novels include 65 comic illustrations that help plot further.
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Plot
This book follows Junior, a fourteen-year-old boy who lives with his family at Spokane Indian Reservation near Wellpinit, Washington for the school year. Told in an episodic diary style, moving from early school year to early summer. This includes Junior's written records of his life and his cartoon pictures, some of which are funny commenting on the situation, and others more seriously describing the important people in his life.
The Absolutely True Diary begins by introducing Junior's birth defects, including the fact that he was born with hydrocephalus and therefore small for his age and suffering from seizures, poor vision, stuttering, and lisp. As a result, Junior is always picked by others in the reservation. The Junior family is very poor and has limited access to opportunities. When Junior Oscar's dog gets hit by heat, his father has to lower it because they can not afford to take him to the vet. Junior's only child's friend is Rowdy, a misused classmate at home and known as a bully in the reservation. Despite his intimidating role, Rowdy often defends Junior and they are bound by enjoying children's comics.
The first day of junior high school is very important for the novel plot. When Mr. P, his geometry teacher, gave him his textbook, he saw his mother's name in it, realizing that the book should be at least 30 years old. Angered and saddened by the fact that the reservation was so poor that it could not afford a new textbook, Junior harshly threw the book, which was about Mr. P, break his nose. When he visits Junior at home, Mr. P convinces Junior to move to Reardan High School, feeling his precocious adulthood in young adolescents. Rear City and far richer than Wellpinit - Junior is the only Indian in Reardan besides the mascot team. Although the Junior family is poor, and even though the school is 22 miles away and transportation is unreliable, they support it and do what they can to enable it to stay in the new school. Rowdy, however, is angered by Junior's decision to transfer, and friends once in a while have very little contact throughout the year.
Junior develops a crush on the most popular white girl at school, Penelope, and becomes a friend of learning with a clever student named Gordy. His interaction with the white students gave him a better perspective on both his own white culture and his own. He realized how stronger his family ties were than his white classmates, realizing that many white fathers never came to their children's schooling. Junior also realizes that white students have different rules than he grew up, which is evident when he reacts to the humiliation of a school star athlete, Roger, by punching his face. Junior hit him, as he had expected at the time of the reservation, and he expected Roger to take revenge. But Roger never did; In fact, Roger and his friends showed even greater respect for Junior. Junior is also getting closer to Penelope, which makes her more popular with other girls at school.
Roger points out that Junior is trying for the basketball team, and for Junior's surprise, he makes a university team, who pit him with his former school, Wellpinit, and especially Rowdy, who is a new star of Wellpinit. Their first game showed Junior how angry the reservations people had for him to transfer: when he entered the court, they scorned and humiliated him. During the game, Rowdy nudged Junior in the head and knocked him unconscious. While suffering several injuries from the game, Junior and his coaches become closer as the coach tells him that he admires Junior's commitment to the team. Then, her grandmother, whom Junior looks at most on reservation, is beaten and killed by a drunk driver. After his grandmother's funeral, a family friend, Eugene, was shot in the face by his friend Bobby after scrambling for alcohol. After mourning and contemplating the deaths of his loved ones, Junior plays in his team's second game against Wellpinit. Rear and Win and Junior will block Rowdy. Junior feels triumphant until he sees the faces of the Wellpinit players after their defeat and remembers the difficulties they face at home and their lack of hope for the future; embarrassed, he ran into the dressing room, where he vomited and then cried. Later, Junior received news of the death of his sister and her husband who died in a fire in their trailer.
Throughout the year, Junior and his family experienced many tragedies, many of which were associated with alcohol abuse. These events test Junior's sense of hope for a better future and make him wonder about the dark aspect of reservation culture. Furthermore, the protagonist is split between the need to enter his wholly white school and hold on to his Indian heritage, leading him to face criticism from his own community. Apart from these challenges, they also helped him see how his family and his new friends loved him, and he learned to see himself as an Indian and an American. Meanwhile, Rowdy realizes that Junior is the only nomad in the reservation, which makes him more of a "traditional" Indian than anyone else in town. In the end, Junior and Rowdy make peace when playing basketball and decide to correspond wherever the future takes them.
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The True Diary of the Indian Time-Part is semi-autobiographical. The novel began as part of the Sherman Alexie family memoir, but after the survival of a young adult editor, he decided to use it as the basis for his first young adult novel. Sherman Alexie commented, "If I guess the percentage, it will be about seventy-eight percent right." Like Arnold, Sherman Alexie grew up in Spokane Reservation in Wellpinit with an alcoholic daddy. He was also born with hydrocephalus, but Alexie has no speech impediment. Alexie is also ridiculed for his government-sunglasses, horn-rimmed spectacles and dubbed "The Globe" by his student friends because of his big head. Another similarity between Alexie and Arnold's character is that Alexie also left a reservation to attend high school in Reardan High, but Alexie chose to go to Reardan to achieve the required credit she needed for college. Alexie became a Reardan basketball star player, and the only Indian on the team was in addition to the school team mascot. The scene in which Arnold finds that he uses the same textbook his mother did thirty years before he was taken from Alexie's own experience. The only difference from Alexie's life and the novel is that Alexie threw the book against the wall in anger, and did not hit anyone like Junior.
Throughout the novel, Junior shares his dream with the readers. In the first chapter, he dreams of becoming a cartoon artist to get rich and escape the cycle of poverty and harassment in reservations. The notion that hope exists outside the rez resonates in later chapters, where Junior finds himself stuck between the house on the reservation and pursues his dreams in the outside world. Junior asks his parents, "Who is most hopeful?" which they answer "White man". Rez is characterized by a lack of opportunities and poor education, a solution that seems to lie in the Western world. Therefore, the novel explores the theme of hope and dreams through the struggle of Junior to find a way to free himself from his seemingly condemned fate on the reservation.
Oppression
Junior claims to be the target of bullying because of his appearance and medical history (lisp, spasm, water in the brain). He reveals this information in a funny and sympathetic way; he invites readers to share and tell their experiences of being bullied. After moving to Reardan High School, Junior also has to deal with being the only poor Native American student in a school full of whites, and he has to face the pressure to keep up appearances for fear of losing his peers' social acceptance.
Violence
Junior lives under constant threat of physical violence. Although he tried to mitigate threats through his pictures and his light approach to the problem, he was subjected to regular beatings by members of the reservation, including adults. Violence serves as a form of communication in the reservation; Junior believes it is the recognition of Native Americans that they are not going anywhere that sparked their violence. So, as with Rowdy, physical violence is also communicative.
Poverty
Poverty is a theme introduced by the main character at the beginning of this book. Junior knew that his family was poor, just like every other family living in the reservation. Junior and his family often leave without eating for a long time, and therefore enjoy the food they get. Death Oscar, the best dog companion of Junior, was shot by his father because their family could not afford the vet bills. The poverty gap is also seen when junior high schools transfer schools to Reardan and see the difference in the quality of clothing between him and his rich and white friends. He even, occasionally, walks to and from school because his family has no gas or transportation to take him there and go home. Embarrassed by his economic status, Junior did everything in his power to ensure that none of his colleagues knew his family was poor, such as making excuses, lying, and borrowing money.
Race
This novel uses funny and comic narration to convey the theme of race. It explores racial issues such as the stereotypes of Indigenous and Whites, the use of indigenous cultures as sports mascots, inter-religious friendships, and cultural tokenisasi. For example, SMP noted that the only other "India" in Reardan was his school mascot, calling attention to the use of indigenous symbols in sport (see "List of sports teams and mascots coming from indigenous peoples"). Although Junior often dichotomizes White and Indian, Alexie reveals the stereotypes that occur while still blurring the line between races. Junior ends up making friendships with many White Reardan students, who see the race of the past and accept him because of his caring nature, his intelligence, and his basketball talents.
Alcohol abuse
Alcohol abuse is a prominent issue on the Spokane reservation. This is directly responsible for the death of a character in the novel and death of most Indians in the reservation. This novel highlights the destructive nature of alcohol abuse and its substantial contribution to the stagnation of developments in reservations and family dysfunction. Junior voiced his disagreement over his widespread use and considered him directly responsible for much of the turmoil in his own family.
The depiction of alcoholism in the novel is representative of the problem of Native Americans with the use of alcohol. Much of Alexie's desire to explore and overcome the problem of alcoholism comes from her own experience with alcohol in the reservation. When asked if he felt the need to overcome alcoholism as a Native American, he replied "the whole race is filled with alcoholics.For Indians who try to pretend it is stereotyped, they are deep denial, deep," and by overcoming that " with the social hope that by writing about it, maybe it will help people become aware, and it's there. "
Friendship
The essence of this novel is the friendship between Junior and Rowdy, who framed the novel. In the first chapter, Junior said, "Rowdy is probably the most important person in my life, maybe more important than my family." In the absence of his drunken, emotional, and eccentric father, Junior finds entertainment in Rowdy. But as the novel grew, Junior began to befriend Reardan High and learned how important it is to build new relationships with different people, because each plays an important role or function in his life.
Writing and literature
Writing and literature plays an important role in the lives of Junior, Rowdy, and Mary. Rowdy reads comics as a way to escape from his dysfunctional and abusive home: "He likes to pretend he lives in comic books," Alexie revealed. Similarly, Mary reads and writes romance novels to escape (and escape) from the same rough reality. In contrast, Junior draws cartoons and writes because it makes him feel important and is his way of communicating with the world. Alexie explains the difference between Junior and Mary on page 46 - she writes, "My brother runs away to get lost, but I run away because I want to find something." Alexie's comments on Junior's perspective (through Junior's own drawings, dialogue, and view of literature) highlight Junior's ambitions, curiosity, and encouragement. In essence, writing, drawing, and reading are cathartic activities for Rowdy, Mary, and Junior. These outlets serve as a coping mechanism to make dysfunction, violence, and abuse in the lives of more bearable characters.
Oscar
Oscar is a wild dog Junior, best friend, and "the only creature he can rely on." He was euthanized by Junior's father at the beginning of the novel because they were unable to take him to the vet. Oscars are a symbol of struggle and the consequences of being poor. Junior's inability to help his friend remind him of the poverty he believes will be doomed. However, Oscar's death is also a turning point for Junior, as it acts as a catalyst for its realization and change.
Basketball
In the novel, basketball is a symbol of improvement. Before his arrival to Reardan, Junior, in his own words, "a decent player." While in Reardan, Junior increased due to expectations set by the coach and his teammates, and became a valuable asset for the team. At the end of the novel, Junior is sure he will be able to defeat Rowdy someday. The transformation experienced by Junior through sport is proof of his will and dedication to improve.
Family
The family takes an important part in this book. Even Junior's family is poor, they always support him and he mentions that they are the only ones who listen to him. Her sister sent a letter and gave her hope. Her father, who is alcoholic, saved five dollars for her. Junior knew that it was easy for his dad to spend the five dollars on alcohol, but the fact that he kept it for him made him feel special. This shows that money is not everything to be happy.
Reception
Reviews
Bruce Barcott of The New York Times said in a 2007 review, "For 15 years now, Sherman Alexie has been exploring the struggle for survival among the Indian and white grinding slabs.He does it through various characters and genres , but The True Diary of India Part-Time is probably the best job, working in the voice of Alexie's 14-year-old troop to drop everything into action and emotion, so reading becomes more like listening to your smartest and best friend smartly telling her day while waiting for school to go home. "
The New York Times argues that this is Alexie's first "breakout into the genre of young adults, and needs only one book to master it." The San Francisco Chronicle praised him as "[a] a great painful book, but fortunately, his pain was filled with joy and humor."
The reviewer also commented on Alexie's care of difficult problems. Delia Santos, publisher for the civilrights.org page, noted, "Alexie combines words and pictures to illustrate the difficult journeys faced by Native Americans.... Although Junior is a young adult, he must face the reality of living in poverty, compete with the discrimination of people outside the reservation, tackle broken communities and families and are often killed by alcoholism, breaking cultural barriers in a white high school, and keeping the perseverance necessary to hope and work for the future "Andrew Fersch, publisher for Vail Daily, commented," most people block most of their teenage memory, [while] Alexie hugs her with humor. "
In another review published in November 2016 by the Dakota Student website, writer Breanna Roen says that she has never seen the way of this book, True Diary from India Part Time >, conveying so much happiness, love, and sadness. Alexie's work in this novel can not be compared with other native American books; it is a "different ball game," Roen asserted. The review continues to state that the themes of identity, home, race, poverty, tradition, friendship, hope and success are seen throughout the book, making readers on the edge of their seats and wanting more. Roen said that he could barely put the book down and eagerly looking for something similar.
In the review, "A Brave Life: The Real Struggles of a Native American Boy made the Exciting Story" published in The Guardian, author Diane Samuels says that Alexie's book has "a combination of images, a concise turn, a phrase , honesty, tragedy, despair, and hope... [which] makes this more than an entertaining reading, more than an interesting story about a North American Indian boy who got him out of a poor dead-end background without losing his life. who he is and where he comes from. "In some areas, Samuels criticized Alexie's dependence on the cartoons. However, he continues to say that for the most part, Sherman Alexie has a knack for capturing details and overviews in a well-developed and sharp way. Samuels completes his review by stating that: "Opening this book is like meeting a friend you never made in your real life and being given a piece of his world, inside and out, it's human, authentic and, most importantly, speaking."
In the review "Using The Truly Part-Time India Diary to Teach About Racial Formations", University of Miami Professor Kevin Talbert said that Alexie chose to tell the story through the eyes of fourteen-old junior to transport readers to "uncomfortable or inappropriate spaces". He goes on to say that novel writing allows for topics about class and racial struggles to get involved with more common youth struggles such as sexual desire, hormone control, and managing relationships with friends and family. Furthermore, Talbert believes that, unlike other Adult Young novels, this book captures the issue of race and class in a way that reaches a wider audience. The article also stated that the Junior narrative in the novel sent a message to the public, "that teenagers have important things to say, that being a fourteen-year-old problem."
Critical Interpretation
Dr. Bryan Ripley Crandall, director of the Connecticut Writing Project at Fairfield University, argues in his critical essay "Adding a Disability Perspective When Reading Adolescent Literature: Sherman Alexie The Absolutely True Diary of a Time-Section India" this presents a progressive view of disability. Arnold has what he calls "water in the brain", which is appropriately referred to as hydrocephalus. Crandall points out that Arnold was never held back by his inability, but in fact he laughed at himself: "With my big legs and my pencil body, I looked like the capital of L walking down the street." According to Crandall, illustrations by Ellen Forney, intended to be Arnold's cartoons, represent a new way for flawed narrators to communicate with readers: they "start interpretations and further conversations about how students see others who are not like them, especially individuals with disabilities. "Arnold's hydrocephaly did not prevent him from becoming a basketball star at his new school. The defect fades as a plot device as the book progresses.
David Goldstein, in his paper "Sacred Hoop Dreams: Basketball in the Work of Sherman Alexie", analyzes the importance of basketball in this novel. He suggested that it represents "the tension between traditional life and contemporary social reality." According to Goldstein, Junior/Arnold sees defeat in basketball as "lost in life." Reardan's children are eternal winners because of their victory in court: "The children are amazing." Goldstein notes how basketball is also a sport of poverty in America - "it costs almost nothing to play, and is perfect for reservations."
The Nerida Weyland article, "Representation of Happiness in Young Comedy Fiction Comedy: Happy Are the Wretched" illustrates how Junior/Arnold is an example of a complex and non-innocent child often presented in modern young adult literature. As Alyson Miller explains, "Not Suitable for Age Groups: The Scandals of Children's Literature," society has created an "innocent idealized child"; Figure protagonist Alexie is the opposite of this figure.
According to Weyland, Alexie does not play by the rules - the use of humor in this book is aimed at "power hierarchy, dominant social ideology or taboo topics". Weyland pointed out that the overly large effect of this book feature is revealed in the controversy caused by publication, as it is banned and challenged in schools across the country. Weyland states that Alexie's book with black comedy illustration Forney explores the theme of "racial tension, domestic violence, and social injustice" in a way that has never been done before. For example, Alexie uses an anecdote of the murder of a Junior dog Oscar to expand the idea of ​​social mobility, or lack thereof - Junior states that he understands why the dog should be killed rather than taken to the vet, because his parents are poor and they "come from poor people from the poor who come from the poor, all the way back to the first poor. " Weyland notes how readers tend to be uncomfortable with Junior/Arnold/Alexie making light of very important topics (racism, poverty, alcoholism) through the use of dark comedy.
Awards
Alexie won three best "best year" awards for Diary, a bi-annual award for books by and about Native Americans, and a California award that annually covers the last four years. The awards are listed below:
- 2007 National Book Award for Youth Literature.
- Indian Indian Youth Literature Award 2008. American Indian Library Association, Best Young Adult Book. In 2018 AILA canceled this award.
- Boston Book World, 2008 Fiction and Poetry Award.
- 2009 Odyssey Award as "the best audiobook for kids or young adults" this year, read by Alexie (Frederick, MD: Recorded Books, LLC, 2008, ISBNÃ, 1-4361-2490-5).
- Young California Readers Medal 2010, Young Adult Books (entitled to win once for the first four years).
Diary is also named for some annual list including three by the United States library industry (not including banned).
- "Best Book 2007", School Library Journal.
- 2008 "Ten Best Books for Young Adults", Association of Young Adult Library Service (YALSA).
- 2009 "Extraordinary Audio Books for Young Adults", YALSA.
Controversy
True Diary from India Part Time has been at the center of much controversy because of the theme and content of the book and its target audience of young adults. The book has strong supporters and protesters who are concerned: "some people think it's the biggest book ever, and some people think it's the dirtiest book ever," said Shawn Tobin, a school district supervisor of Georgia.
Sensor
Topics covered in controversial books include cultural insensitivity, provocative and explicit language, sexually explicit or anti-family scenes, anti-Christian content, alcoholism and portrayal of bullying and violence, among others.
Antioch Township, Illinois (2009)
Local parents catch the wind from references to books for alcoholism, sensitive cultural topics and sexual innuendo: in early June, seven Antioch parents attended the 117th District School Council meeting to request that the book be removed from the curriculum. However, the novel was not banned from the Antioch High School curriculum after the controversy. Instead, the English Department introduced an alternative option for summer reading - students who preferred to read John Hart's Down River were allowed to do so.
In Prineville, Oregon, one parent raised an objection to the school board about how the book contains references to masturbation and is generally inappropriate. In response, the Crook County School District temporarily removed the book from the classroom. The deletion is enforced, but the book remains available to students in the school library.
Stockton, Missouri (2010)
Parents complained about violence, language, and sexual content in the Part-Time Real-Time Part-of-India, and the Stockton District School Board voted to ban the book from the school library. The decision was chosen several times, but eventually the ban was enforced.
Newcastle, Wyoming (2010)
In 2010, Newcastle Wyoming Secondary School attempted to incorporate Diary into the 8th grade English language curriculum. At first, the district allowed it under the premise that children who were not allowed to read it would carry signed papers that would allow them to read alternative books Tangerine . About two weeks after the announcement was made to grade 8 students, the school board forbade teaching it in the curriculum, but still allowed it in the library for those who wanted to read it. Helena, Montana (2011) "> Helena, Montana (2011)
In 2011, one of the parents at the Helena School District objected to the "obscene, vulgar, and pornographic language" of the book. However, the school district chooses to keep the book in school. Richards, _Washington_ (2011) "> Richland, Washington (2011)
Dade County, Georgia (2012)
In 2012, the book was removed from the Dade County school library and required high school reading lists due to complaints about "vulgarity, racism, and anti-Christian content".
Mattapoisett, Massachusetts (2012)
In 2012 at the Old Rochester Regional Junior High School, the book was challenged as an 8th grade English assignment, but was eventually saved by the school.
Union County, New Jersey (2012)
In 2012, the book was challenged in a 9th grade English class at Westfield High School for "highly sensitive material in the book including quotes about masturbation among other explicit sexual references, encouraging pornography, racism, religious impartiality, and strong language." However, the school board decided to keep the book as part of the curriculum.
Yakima, Washington (2013)
Sherman Alexie Diary was challenged in his home country in Washington, just a few hours drive from the semi-autobiographical workplace. This means that many people object to specific content, themes, or languages ​​in this book. Disputes about the appropriateness of books for high school students occur in the West Valley School District by 2013. In particular, many parents claim that the book contains inappropriate and sexually inappropriate content and language that is not suitable for high school students.
To date, there have been four official complaints about the book being recorded. As a result, Alexie's book was removed from grade 10 and created additional literature for grades 11 and 12 instead of required reading.
Queens, New York (2014)
High school in Queens issued Diary of compulsory reading because of references to masturbation, which schools deemed inappropriate for junior high school. Billings, Montana (2014) Billings, Montana (2014)
The book was challenged on a list of 10th grade readings at Skyview High School, where parents complained "[t] his book, surprisingly, was written by a Native American who reinforces all the negative stereotypes of his people and does so from raw, indecent, and point of view accidentally from a 9th grader growing up on the reservation. "The book was not removed from the school list. Jefferson County, West Virginia (2014) Jefferson County, West Virginia (2014)
Sweet Home, Oregon (2014)
Some of the parents from the English class at Sweet Home voiced concern about the content of the book, particularly the objectification of women and young girls. The concerns caused the book to be formally challenged, but nothing more.
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In April 2014, Diary was withdrawn from the Meridian district's additional reading list after significant parental rejection of the novel subject matter. The book has been part of its curriculum since 2010. Students protested to remove the ban but to no avail.
According to Marshall University Library, by 2015 the text is banned from the texts that Meridian school districts require (ID) because parents complain that "it deals with masturbation, contains profanity, and has been viewed as anti-Christian."
Brunswick, North Carolina (2014)
On July 1, 2014, a grandmother in Brunswick, North Carolina filed a complaint against Diary at Cedar Grove High School. Two weeks later, the School's Media Advisory Committee met and unanimously agreed to keep the book in its curriculum because it sees value in "a realistic portrayal of bullying and racism, as well as the need for tolerance and awareness of cultural differences." The grandmother, Frances Wood, appealed the decision, insisting that "[t] her book is not morally acceptable... Everything in it is degrading. There is nothing arousing in it."
One year later, Wood challenged the book again, this time in West Brunswick High School. Timber lost this protest against the book when the principal of West Brunswick High School answered a few days later that the policy of the local school board was their decision on a book held for all schools in the area, and that the decision could not be reviewed for two years.
Highland Park, Texas (2015)
By 2015, the principal of the Highland Park Independent School District suspends the Diary from a school-approved list of books. The suspension was very short, and the inspector returned the book shortly thereafter.
Defense Novel
Though, The Truly Timeless Diary of a Part-Time India, has been filled with much criticism, it has also been praised by teachers, students, and Alexie herself.
Alexie contradicts these arguments by emphasizing the positive learning opportunities that readers gain from exposure to the rough aspects of contemporary life. He describes his own experience of adults trying to hide and protect him from suffering:
"During my childhood, rescuers tried to rescue my fellow tribesmen, they wanted to save me, but even then, I could only laugh at them, and at that time, cultural conservatives thought that KISS and Black Sabbath would hinder the development They want to protect me from sex when I've been raped They want to protect me from evil even though future serial killers have tortured me They want me to express my love to God without considering that I am a son and granddaughter of men and women who has been sexually and physically abused by the priest generation. "
Alexie explains not only students love books, but they can also relate their stories to their own difficult experiences of "depression, attempted suicide, gang warfare, sexual and physical abuse, absent parents, poverty, racism and learning disabilities" and he notes:
"I have not received a letter from a child who is somehow undermined by domestic violence, drug abuse, racism, poverty, sexuality, and murder contained in my book.In contrast, children as young as ten have sent me autobiographical letters written in crayons , complete with images inspired by my book, as dark, scary and redeeming as I've ever read. "
By protecting inappropriate topics and difficulties, many children who suffer from this problem feel more marginalized and isolated. A A,
There are so many Native American students in the public school system but their voices are constantly suppressed in the classroom. This is one of the few books that actually discuss their burden. Students not only need to be entitled to have their recognized cultural heritage but also benefit from the culture they incorporated as part of the learning process as they become more involved in the curriculum.
Novels are a useful tool that teaches sympathy and empathy for teenagers. Alexie chose to tell the story through the words of a fourteen-year-old boy, allowing uncomfortable topics to become more in touch with young adults. The protagonist's character "... deals with many common teen struggles, such as how to talk to people who want sexually and/or romantically, to control hormones, and to manage relationships with parents, friends and teachers.The familiarity of this struggle helps the reader empathize with Junior. "Because this story is related to the demographic-age reader, the struggle becomes more realistic and easier to emphasize.
In addition, readers learn to empathize with people with disabilities and lower socioeconomic status. Alexie "creates an access point to their protagonists by exploring not only their physical defects, but also by outlining the emotional impacts of such imperfections on these characters."
Another defender of the novel discusses the benefits of demonstrating the consequences of consuming alcohol, which overall provides an anti-alcohol message.
Some have even discussed the merits of the book while also mentioning the risk of exposing children to louder scenes. Young Adult Fiction Writer Raquel Rivera writes in an essay on censorship:
"This is a very good book and happens to have a lot of useful material for boys entering his teenage years... But there is a scene in the Time-Parts India where a racist joke is told, and the protagonist has to fight." from the tool to move the plot. In the story it is completely conquered and forgotten. But the joke is living with my son, and he's constantly harassed by him. "
Historical Indian Spokane Trauma
The novel autobiographical nature reflects the internal struggle for identity that Alexie handles as a child. His personal experience is then linked to the traumatic notion experienced by Native American tribes because they are still struggling to balance assimilation with identity. This phenomenon has been explored and analyzed since the publication of the novel.
Jan Johnson, an assistant clinical professor of American Indian and African American Literatures at the University of Idaho, used Alexie's novel to explore the idea of ​​marginalization and oppression in the Native American community in his article, "Healing the Soul Wound,". Johnson identifies "mentally wounded," the deep trauma experienced by Native Americans since colonization and continues to struggle with. This term explains how consistent depictions of Native Americans as suffering and helplessness have become part of their identity. Johnson writes, "Alexie feels that - as a result of this bleak history - suffering and trauma are fundamental to the experience of being a Native American. Endless suffering has epistemological status." Johnson used the novel to illustrate his thinking about the future of Native American culture. The Spokane Indians, and tribes like them, face the trauma of seeking identity in a world that tries to blanket one's culture. Johnson, argues that Alexie uses Diary to represent the traumatic healing potential of Native Americans throughout history.
In Sherman Alexie, A Collection of Essentials Critical, critics Jeff Burglund and Jan Roush interpret Jan Johnson's definition of mental injury as "intergenerational suffering." On pages 10 and 11 of Diary , Alexie outlines the concept of generational poverty when she revealed that the Junior family is too poor to care for sick dog families: "My parents are from poor people who come from poor people who comes from the poor, all the way back to the first poor, "he wrote. Junior is "hurt," which Alexie points out through Junior's alcoholic father, a misled sister, and his beatling social life. Through Diary, Alexie aims to make a bigger statement about the need for change in both the internal structure and external perceptions of the Native American community in the United States. Columbus and his people colonize the new land they encounter in a horrible way that belittles whatever Native people they have. The cruel invasion by Columbus and his crew left the Indians with nothing to say for themselves. The holy land, animals, plants, and relatives are all gone by the time of what Mary Yellow Brave Heart and Lemyra DeBruyn say are called "American Indian Holocaust." The people who are fortunate enough to stay alive are brainwashed from everything they know, and are forced to believe and follow the religious practices of the Christian faith even though that fact is not what they believe. The Indians were also forced to move and abandon everything, which caused many of them to die of illness or unbearable conditions they had to walk in. Some indigenous tribes are still affected by this trauma. Many argue that "unresolved historical grief" is the cause of the high rates of crime and mental health problems among Native Americans today. Mary Yellow Horse Brave Heart and Lemyra DeBruyn explain the meaning behind "unspeakable sadness" and how it is ignored by Americans. The American Indians experience unhappy sadness for how this group of people is and still are seen as barbaric, unemotional, and lacking the right or reason to mourn and grieve.
Multicultural literature
There are many arguments why Sherman Alexie The Absolute True Diary of the Time-Section India is an example of multicultural literature. A textbook called Sherman Alexie in Class was recently published to help teachers and educators explore how multicultural texts can influence student learning outcomes - especially for Native Americans in modern times. This text explores the meanings and messages behind Sherman Alexie's works, including poetry, novels, film strips, and more.
The Sherman Alexie novel, The True Diary of Indian Part-Time , is a multicultural text that many English teachers use to educate their students about Native American heritage. The author, Alexie, is Spokane's heritage, and as a result, she uses her own background and personal experience to write this special novel in semi-autobiographical format. The teacher refers to the textbook, Sherman Alexie in Class, to claim that this book provides an opportunity to educate native non-American students to "work through their white mistakes and develop anti-racist perspectives."
In an interview, Alexie stated that, "The main audience is a college-educated white lady, so that's what it reads if you want to talk about that indication - of course this book is for young adults, but I'm at the American Library convention Association in DC a few weeks ago, and there are about 15,000 librarians there and 99 per cent of them are white women so... Thank God... they seem to be the ones most willing to ignore the obstacles and boundaries and to reach out whole, so that's what my audience is in reality. In this book, in particular, I sincerely hope it reaches many indigenous children of course, but also poor children of various who feel trapped by circumstances, by culture, with low expectations, I hope it helps them out. "
Alexie also wants "literature to pay attention to the everyday life of Indians. [He] thinks that most Native American literature is so obsessed with nature that [he does not] think it has a useful purpose". Alexis was quoted as saying, "There is a child out there, some boy or girl who will be the great writer, and hopefully they will see what I do and get inspired from it".
Furthermore, the Alexie texts encourage educators to begin discussions in their classes about Indigenous American culture as a whole. Many Native American stereotypes exist in the United States; therefore, many people have a false view of what native American life may be like. The 11th and 12th grade English teachers, Bryan Ripley Crandall, believe that learning about different cultural backgrounds creates a diverse learning environment. Crandall also stated that the Native American narrative of Alexie's book is a way of giving minority students access to their own background and heritage in American education. Therefore, Alexie's multicultural literature on The True Diary of the Time-Share India provides an expanded perspective on the daily lives of Native Americans living on the reservation in the world today.
Media
Audiobook
Author Sherman Alexie himself tells the audiobooks of The Real-Time A-India A-section, which has won many awards for making the first person's special sound. "Alexie is the perfect choice to read her own story," critic critic Kristi Jemtegaard said. Alexie was able to convey the message that missing cartoons, caricatures, and sketches were expressed in printed texts. Alexie, who has experience as an orator, won the Taos Poetry Heavyweight World Championship award for three years in a row because of her oratorical skills.
Movie Adaptation
According to the The Hollywood Reporter , in December 2016, Fox 2000 studio acquired the rights to produce The Truly-Time Book of the Time-Parts India . The producing team consists of Hugh Jackman, Wyck Godfrey, Isaac Klausner, and Lauren Shuler Donner. The film is currently under development, and the specified release date has not been announced at this time.
Educational Resources
- "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian data visualization and analysis" (online and PDF) . LitCharts.com . Retrieved February 23 2017 .
- Scholastic's A True Book of English Teaching. Retrieved 31 May 2017
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