The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie is a great book, which describes the  achievements of a boy who successfully and willingly gets out of his hometown nature and rushes to go to school in a community, that no other Indian has gone to before. The book follows the journey of a boy and how he struggles to fit in with the 'common' people, because he has such a different background. All through the book, we feel sorry for the main character, while he struggles with money issues and social interaction with people at his new school.

The book is based around how the boy struggles with many issues in trying to fit in to society. He struggles with the way that he lives and the way of life of the 'common' people at the new school. Some struggles that the main character has to endure is; walking 20 miles to school everyday, his non-appreciative classmates and not having that much money for lunch or school activities, where everyone else has millions of dollars and their own cars. We feel sorry for the boy because he doesn't have the same upbringing or the same financial circumstances as the other people at his school.

I like how the author used pictures to annotate how the main character was dealing with the enrolment in his new school. It really gave me a visual and more in depth analysis of how he was feeling and dealing with the on-going problems at his school. Adding on, I also really liked how the author wrote the book because it wasn't just a 'regular' novel but an 'arty' book. Everything in the book wasn't common and the way that the author wrote the book was like a one on one with the reader. This really helped me when reading the book because I could connect with it a lot more.

In conclusion, I really enjoyed the book because it was a very original idea and the writing was very unique. I liked how the author's tone was very informal and it helped me read the book a lot better and connect to it more. I will definitely try to use this in my own writing in the future!