The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian By: Sherman Alexie

The book I am currently reading is The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian By: Sherman Alexie. This book is about a 14-year old boy Arnold, who leaves to go to an all-white school in Reardan. This is a drastic change because no Indians usually goes to school outside the rez, so this could of been very interesting or something that he wold regret for the rest of his life. 

Arnold is very strong, but he doesn't show it. He always comes off like a dumb, helpless kid. This brings down is self-esteem because sometimes when you come off like that people want to bully you and call you names. I am connecting this to the real world now. When you go to a new school  students look at you very weird like almost saying in their head "Why is he/she here?". That doesn't put you in the right state of mind at all, now does it? When Arnold walked into his new school, many were shocked because their saying we are all white and there is just this one Indian here. But instead of everyone just saying why is he here? He came off brave first before they even had time to bully or talk crap about him. He walked in the class like nothing. I mean of course he was nervous and kept asking to himself if he was ready for this... but he never showed it on the outside at all. 

I learned from this book, that don't let anyone bring you down, because at the end of the day your the stronger person. An Indian goes into a all-white school, going in to class showing nothing on his face but just bravery. I mean yeah your going to have doubts about whether or not you can do it or not. But it almost seemed like he put a switch in his head to just show that he can do it.