Perseverance: The Road to Success and Maturation Life knocks people down all the time. But it is said that it doesn't matter how many times a person gets knocked down, it is how many times that person gets back up. This is called perseverance, which can be used to help those succeed and overcome the hardships in their life. In “The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” Alexie uses the protagonist Junior, to show how perseverance can be an effective trait, as it helps him conquer the obstacles in his life, and also expand his limits. As Junior matures he realizes that he has many obstacles within his life, like the fact that he lives in poverty, a lot of people show racism towards him and his people, and the death of family members and …show more content…
Throughout the novel the reader can see that Junior and Rowdy’s friendship slowly grows apart, which is what causes tensions between the two during the game. When the coach tells Junior he is guarding Rowdy that night, he says, “ I don’t think I can do this,”(188) which shows Junior’s lack of self-confidence. He starts the game and as Rowdy steals the ball, Junior chases after him. Junior says to the reader his calculations of what he needs to do in order to stop Rowdy. “I couldn’t foul him. That would be like giving up. So I sped up up and got ready to jump with Rowdy.” (191) This clearly shows that Junior didn’t believe he could do anything to stop Rowdy. However, he says he didn’t want to give up, so as he speeds up, his perseverance, helps him to stop Rowdy. “I rose above him as he tried to dunk it. I Took the ball right out of [Rowdy’s] hands.” (192) This shows how Junior’s perseverance helps him overcome the obstacle of beating Rowdy. Furthermore, Junior perseverance also allows him to overcome poverty. After being in poverty for his whole life, Junior realizes that, “It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor,” and as he realizes this, he transfers schools to Reardan. While attending the school, a very racist joke was made towards him. Despite the racism, he continues to attend the school, because it will …show more content…
An example of bullying towards Junior is when he transfers schools, and starts attending Reardan. A kid named Roger makes a very racist joke where his friends laugh at him and the other kids all think he is weird when he first starts attending. Junior says that he, “felt like Roger had kicked [him] in the face,” (64) and so, he punched Roger in the face. Another way that Junior is bullied in the novel is back before he left the reservation. The Andruss brothers - John, Jim and Joe - , “ the cruelest triplets in the history of the world,” (20) saw Junior and called him many names like , “Hydromatic, Hydrocarbon, Hydrocrack, Hydrodynamic,” (21) and many more. Junior’s version of perseverance was getting revenge. So he went with Rowdy and hid by their camp. When they passed out they shaved off their eyebrows and cut their braids off. After being bullied by the brothers, This shows Junior’s own version of perseverance, which is revenge. Junior was able to get back back up after being knocked down by the triplets and push through the pain from them. Junior persevered through the bullying and got his revenge too. Therefore, perseverance in many different ways, allows Junior to overcome
This story has many themes and one of the main themes is that life choice of choosing to be hopeful or not. Junior has a hard life with many losses and other problems. He is lost and does not know exactly what to do. When Mr.P comes over to Junior’s house he really makes an impact on him. Mr. P talks to Junior about what is out there and that he has hope if he goes
All of this information is important because these are the main characteristics of him. Rowdy has many good qualities like his strength and his anger issues. Rowdy has lots of strength because he is always behind junior back all of the time. Also,this is
While on trial, Junior was asked why he had turned to the FBI. “That was not the life that I wanted to live,” he testified. Junior has helped the FBI by leading them to bodies that were buried in various places, while Junior successfully stayed alive and well in MS-13. In the final closing of the article Junior says, “It just didn’t feel right. I had to do something…
"Fall seven times and stand up eight," a wise Japanese proverb goes. This quality of perseverance is one of the lessons that Randy Pausch writes about in his autobiography The Last Lecture. Randy Pausch's lessons about persevering through struggles can not only be exhibited through his life, but also through the lives of Abraham Lincoln and myself. Randy Pausch's life is a classic display of the value he so highly regards: perseverance. When Pausch was a young, beginning football player, his coach was very tenacious.
Comparative Analysis The Wednesday Wars, by Gary D. Schmidt, and The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, both take place in the 1960s. When analyzing the two novels, one can compare and contrast the social inequalities racism, classism, and bullying. These inequities enhance the reader’s understanding of how society is separated. While racism is present in The Wednesday Wars, the subject is not present in The Outsiders.
Junior’s father’s drinking problems and the lack of funds to afford decent living conditions on the reservation are prevalent issues throughout the book that provide an insight into this theme. This proves that the author has written this novel to exhibit the hardships of those in poverty are detrimental to a child’s future. First, the novel shows the hardships of poverty by showing the discrimination made against Junior. On page 86, Junior states he “remembered when I [he] used to be a human being,” (Alexie 86).
Prejudice means on how people judge somebody because of race or religion, an example From the book itself "The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian," whites were prejudiced to Indians and even the Indians were prejudiced toward the main character, Arnold for switching to a white school. An example to provide that there was prejudice in the novel like when Roger and Penelope thought that people in Arnold 's reservation were rich because there were a lot of casinos in his area, but the truth was that everyone in Arnold 's reservation were alcoholics that lived in poverty. For example, like Arnold 's father, he was an alcoholic and so tired, they wouldn 't have any food to eat for dinner, and they would starve for nearly every night. And going on this, Arnold didn 't tell anybody that he was poor so he would say he was rich and it was released out when he was at the dance and he was asked if he was poor and he responded saying
Have you ever lost someone you loved or was important in your life? Well Junior has, he has lost many people in his life. He has gone to a total of 42 funerals in his lifetime and he is only 14. You will find out more about Junior in the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Most of the people Junior has lost were due to alcohol.
ANELISWA NALA 2015317601 ENGL1624 DUE: 28 OCTOBER 2016 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian has one mutual theme that associates all the other themes in the novel together. In the chapter titled; “Valentine Heart,” we encompass the most prominent and most cognisant theme of them all- grief. This chapter conveys the most detectable attributes of grief that functions as both an individual and collective process of dealing with loss. Argumentatively one could say that grieving has its fair share of adversities.
The Importance of Perseverance At many times in people’s lives, they consider giving up. This is also true for Santiago, the protagonist in Paulo Coelho's fantasy novel The Alchemist. Santiago is on a journey to find a hidden treasure he saw in a dream. Along this journey he continues to contemplate whether he should just give up, or continue his adventure.
Faced with many obstacles from poverty to racial stereotypes, Junior must override them if he is to make his life better than that of fellow Indians. Interestingly, rather than letting the obstacles hold him back Junior understands that his destiny is in his own hands and he must celebrate who he is even if it means fighting. In the end, we see a boy who have managed to overcome all hardships to get to the top, even if it means making tough choices such as changing schools, therefore is could be seen that race and stereotypes only made Junior
To begin with, Junior’s constant criticism of his family and his reservation proves how much he depends on them and the importance of family. Numerous instances throughout the story Junior accuses his family for all his hardships. For example, when he says that his dog was more dependable than his parents, he makes it seems like his parents don’t have time for him. In reality, his parents are making an effort to provide for their family. Another occurrence of criticism was when Junior became infuriated when his
He realizes that his team has numerous economic and social advantages. Junior’s ability to address topics like poverty, racism and bullying with humor is a significant characteristic of his voice. For Junior, as well as his friends Rowdy and Penelope, part of growing up is recognizing that the world is more complicated than a strict division of opposites, it’s possible to be more than one thing—part of countless different “tribes”—is what enables him to unify his split identity and, as someone destined to travel beyond the reservation, navigate the world both figuratively and
Around the world there are many kind of problems that afflict kids of all age but there is one in particular that is relevant, this problem is the bullying. Also many kids commit suicide because of this problem, this isn't an actual problem, the bullying exist many years ago almost all generations of humans witness the bullying in the childhood.
Then, he later realized that he “ had challenged the alpha dog and was now being rewarded for it.” This evidence implies that Junior’s experience of being bullied by Roger triggered him to stand up for himself. His hope and perseverance while standing up for himself and others, led to a greater outcome. Now, Junior was being respected as a result of him having hope and standing up himself; he was