In the chapter eleven Halloween is celebrated and Junior is dressed up as homeless person but there is no difference between his normal clothes and this homeless dude clothes. He looks like a half-homeless person. Penelope, Juniors secret love, has the same costume and she has a good ulterior motive. She wants to protest against the treatment of homeless People in this Country. Therefore she has the plan to collect money and sweets for poor families with Kids. That raises Junior to an idea. He wants to impress Penelope so he lies and tells her that he Protests also against the treatment of homeless Native Americans in this country. He wants to collect trick-or-treating on his reservation. So they both make a deal: they want to gather the money and send it together to a relief organisation.

Junior has luck: he can collect a little bit of Money in his poor reservation but then something awful happens. Three guys jump at Junior and they kick him very often on his belly, ribs and back. They spit on him and steal him all the collected money. The fact that he does not have enough money anymore is not so terrible because Penelope has appreciation for this situation. She wants to write Juniors Name on the money envelope with the money she has collected. So in the end of this chapter Junior has succeeded to impress his love Penelope.

The novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part- Time Indian” written by Sherman Alexie was published in the year 2007. It deals with the young boy Arnold called “Junior” who lives with his poor family in a reservation. In this novel Arnold tells the reader his problems in his daily life.

In the following I will analyse the feelings and emotions of Arnold in the second chapter “Why chicken means so much to me”. At the beginning of the second chapter Arnold tells something about his passion to draw cartoons (p. 17 l.1). He whises that he can make his cartoons real, that he draws something magical. So he is very sad as he realises that nobody can do this and that he is just a “poor-ass” reservation kid (p. 17 ll.7-8). On this part the author uses the stylistic form anaphora. That underlines how unhappy Arnold is because the word “poor-ass” is very often repeated. After that Arnold tells the reader something about the worst thing about being poor (p.18 l.4). He tells that his best friend Oscar, the dog, became really sick. Oscar means so much to Arnold. He was more dependabel than the parents or the gandmother (p.19 ll.11-12). So it was a shock for Arnold that his poor Indian family has not enough money for the vet (p.19 l.11-p.20 ll.1-2). That was a very sad situation for Arnold because he has not any chance to help his best friend. In this moment it was clear that Arnold was very desperate. That illustrates the anaphora on page 20 line 15-17. “Nothing. Nothing. Nothing”. The dad of Arnold tries to help Oscar and he shoots him down (p.24 ll.7-9). During this sad situation Arnold uses a lot of rhetorical questions (p.17 l.11/p.18 l.4/l.10). That has the effect that the reader is more influenced into the story. In the last part of the second chapter Arnold tells something about his parents and their unrealised dreams (p.23 ll.1-22). His mum is very intelligent. ” And she remembers everything she reads. She can recite whole pages by memory. She’s a human tape recorder”(p.23ll.2-4). After that he tells something about his dad who is a very good singer and musician (p.23 ll.8-10). It sounds a little bit that Arnold is a little bit proud about his parents but in the next lines it is also clear how desperate Arnold is. “But we reservation Indians don’t get to realize our dreams. We don’t get those chances. Or choises. We’re just poor. That’s all we are.[…] to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor.You start believing that you’re poor because you’re stupid and ugly. And then you start believing that you’re stupid and ugly because you’re Indian. […]. It’s an ugly circle and there’s nothing you can do about it”(p.23 ll.14-22).

In conclusion I can say that in this second chapter the feelings of Arnold are very clear described. It is good comprehensible why Arnold is desperate. The stylistic devices help the reader to be more included in the story and it is easier to follow it. I would say that this chapter is important for the next course because in this chapter there are some important information about Arnold’s family and the hard blow, the loss of the best friend Oscar.

Dear Diary,

today was a strange day. I found Juniors cartoon and I was very shocked. I konw that Junior has many problems and his life in the reservation is not very easy, but that he really thinks that he is the biggest retard in the world was new to me. Actually I thought that his cartoons are funny and I was able to laugh about it. But now I know that this is Juniors way to tell his feelings and his true mind to the world. He told me that he thinks that pictures can tell more than words because words are too limited. And now I realised that. I was shocked about the cartoon about his self-portrayal. This picture was so expressive. I think I can’t imagine how hard it is to live with this problems for example the stutter and lisps or very big hands and feet. Although he has really big hands and feet;) Anyway that is no reason to offend him. I hope that I can protect him the next time. And I hope that I can give him the feeling that he is a cool friend.

See you tomorrow Rowdy