The chapter “Why Chicken Means So Much to Me” of the diary “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, which is written by Sherman Alexie was published in September 2007,is about the poverty of Junior and his family.

In the following text I will summarize the chapter.

In the beginning Junior talks about the fact that his dog , which is called Oscar , is sick and is looking pretty pretty bad.After that Junior asks his parents if he can bring his dog to the vet but they say that he couldn´t because they have not enough money for a surgery.In the end Junior´s father kills Oscar to stop his suffering.

Right now, I am going to analyse the chapter by interpreting stylistic devices.

In the chapter there are many stylistic devices, but in this analysis I will just give some examples.The first I pick can be found on page 19 line 3.In this quote Junior clarifies that his dog his pretty sick and is looking very sick too.Some lines further he explains that he couldn’t save Oscar by a repetition(com.p.20 ll.14).I think that this expresses how sad Junior is and exspecially that makes the reader feels sad too by reading the chapter.In another repetition (com.p.21 ll.8) Junior says that he wants to hate his parents because of their poorness. Actually , I believe that he can´t  hate them , he just hates the poverty and the fact that they can´t help Oscar.

So all in all I think that he is pretty sad about the fact that his dog is dieing and he can´t help him because of their poverty.