In the following I am going to analyze Junior´s emotions and feelings.

The first stylistic device can be found on page 17, ,,I wish I were magical,but I am really just a poor-ass reservation kid living with his poor-ass family on the poor-ass Spokane Indian Reservation´´,ll.8 ,this example is an enumeration.This enumeration shows how sad Junior really feels.The reader becomes impressions of Junior´s daily life situation and about how poor he is.It seems like he feels like something that isn´t important for everyone.From line 14-15 the reader becomes impressions about junior´s empty stomach and what he would give to have a real meal again.He is sad and helpless.Furthermore the author uses a climax page 17 ,ll. 6 and 7 , ,,But I can’t do that.Nobody can do that,not even the hungriest magician in the world.In this example the author uses the climax to show,that Junior only wants to live a good life and not the life he is living.He just wants to be in a normal family and living in a family where food is something normal.On page 19 the author uses an enumeration to show that Oscar his dog really feels bad and that it makes him really sad,too.Junior is scared about losing Oscar,because it is the only one who truly understands him.He is really sad about Oscars situation and how he feels ,,I figured he´d be okay with some rest,but then he started vomiting, and diarrhea blasted out of him, and he had these seizures where his little legs just kicked and kicked and kicked. ´´ Moreover  there is a repetition ,,There was nothing I could do to save Oscar.Nothing.Nothing.Nothing´´,ll.14. By using this repetition the author gives the impression to the reader that Junior can’t do nothing at all.He is helpless.helpless and Sad by thinking about how Oscar has to die ,because of the family´s poorness,who can’t pay oscars medicines.On page 21 there is an alliteration ,,I wanted to punch my dad in the face.I wanted to punch him in the nose and make him bleed.I wanted to punch him in the eye and make him blind.I wanted to kick him in the balls and make him pass out.´´,ll.1. By using this stylistic device the reader really understands how important Junior to Oscar is.Junior is completely alone and there i really nobody who understands him.It becomes clear,that junior feels really aggressive by the thought of his dad. Another stylistic device is on page  21 in line 5 , ,,I was hot mad.Volcano mad.tsunami mad.´´, by using this climax the reader can see how aggressive,sad and lonely junior is. Nobody understands him and he only feels aggressive and disappointed by the thought what his parents are able to do with his dog oscar.The other alliteration is on page 21,too ,,I wanted to hate him for weakness.I wanted to hate Dad and Mom for our poverty.I wanted to blame them for my sick dog and for all the other sickness in the world.´´ll.8. By using this alliteration , the reader becomes part of Junior´s feelings about his parents and how much he hates the poorness.

In conclusion it can be said that Junior really feels sad.He feels lonely and he feels like nobody understands him.The lost of Oscar makes him feel lonelier than everything. Junior has nobody.

 

 

The Book “The Absolutely true Diary of a part -time Indian,” written by Sherman Alexie and published 2007, deals with an Indian boy Who lives in the res and Triers to leave it. It is written in the first person narrator perspective of the main character Junior.

In the first pages Junior tells about his meals and that sleeping the only thing against an empty stomach (p.17 ll.14-15).But the hope that his parents will come  and come and bring a bucket of Kentucky fried chicken (p.17 ll.16-17).He tells us about his sick dog Oscar got really sick and will probably die.(p.18 ll.6-7).Juniors mum says that they bring him to the vet but the mum lied (p.19 ll.17-19).”I’ll pay you back I said,I promise.”(p.20 ll.3-5).Is an alliteration and expresses that Junior won’t to help Oscar and bring him to the vet and pay him.

All in all Junior is sad about Oscar and not really happy with his Situation in the res and also in his family.

In the following, I am going to analyse the stylistic devices in the second chapter from Sherman Alexie’s novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”. The chapter deals with the main character’s (/Junior’s) family’s poverty, because of which they sometimes miss a meal and have no money for the healthcare of their dog Oscar, as explained in this chapter.

To begin with, Alexie uses enumerations, such as “He was laying on his bed with red, watery, snotty eyes.” (p. 19, l. 3).

He also uses a lot anaphoras to underline Junior’s situation (p. 17, ll. 8 – 10: “I am really just a poor-ass reservation kid living with his poor-ass family on the poor-ass Spokane Indian Reservation.”).

In addition, the author uses a climax (p. 17, ll. 6 & 7: “But I can’t do that. Nobody can do that, not even the hungriest magician in the world.”). That way, he clarifies how poor and hungry Junior feels.

All in all, the author knows very well how to make Junior’s situation clear to the reader.

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The second chapter “Why Chicken Means So Much to Me” of the book “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, written by Sherman Alexie published 2009, is about the poverty of Junior´s family and his dogs dead because of his illness.

In the following I am going to analyse the stylistic devices, Junior´s feelings and his emotions.  The first enumeration is on page 19(“He was lying on his bed with red,wattery,snotty eyes.”l.3) and this sentence draws attention to Oscar´s eyes. The next enumeration in ll.7-9 has the effect to focus the readers attention to the dog´s illness(“[…]he started vomiting, and diarrhea blasted[…]and he had […] and kicked and kicked.”ll. 7-9). The last stylistic device on this page is an enumeration again and it emphasizes that the dog was more important than his family for him(“[…] than my parents ,grandmother,aunts,uncles,cousins, and big sister.”ll.11-13). In lines 15-18 on page 20 is an anaphora (“Nothing. Nothing.Nothing.”ll.15-18) and it highlights that he couldn´t do anything to help his dog. On the next page in ll.1-3 is a parallelism and anaphora(“I wanted to punch him[…]. I wanted to punch[…]. I wanted to punch him[…].”ll.1-3). This sentence shows Junior´s fury and emphazies it. The next stylistic device has the same effect and is a climax(“I was hot mad.Volcano mad. Tsunami mad.”l.5). In l.7 is an oter anaphora and in ll. 8-11.(“He […].He[…].l.7 and “I wanted to[…]. I wanted to […].”ll.8-11). This stylistic devices show that Junior is very angry and desperate because of his dog´s dead and their poverty. On page 23 is an anaphora again (“She[…]. She[…].ll.2-3). and in l.10 is a simile (“Lika a pro.”l.10). This simile creates a vivid mental image of Junior´s dad. The second last stylistic device on this page is in l.17 and is an anaphora(“It sucks to[…]. It sucks to[…].” l.17). It spells out that Junior´s and his family´s poorness makes he angry and he is strung out from. In l.25 on this page is an enumeration (“So, poor and small and weak[…].l.25). It describes Junior and because of this enumeration you kow how he feels in this situation. Last but not least is an anaphora on page 24 inll.5-6 (“I[…]. I[…].ll.3-6). It works like an little a comparison between Oscars emotions and felings that “he was relieved”(l.3) and Junior´s sentiments (” But not me. I[…]”. ll.5-6)

To Junior´s emotions and feelings you can say as aforementiond that he is very sad about his best friend´s dead and angry about his poorness(p.17 l.8-10 and p. 21 ll.9-11). He is very desperate and he thinks that he deserves to be poor because he is an Indian(p. 23 ll.17-22) .

The novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, written by Sherman Alexie and published in year 2007, is about Arnold (also called  Junior), a fourteen year old Indian boy who writes about his live in the rez and what experiences and feelings he has especially by suffering from his physical and psychological damages.

In chapter 2, which is called “Why Chicken Means So Much to Me”, Arnold tells about his family’s poverty and how it suffers from hunger which is also the conection to the chapter’s title because he describes how happy somebody can be having a chicken to eat after a long time whithout anything. In addition to that the story about the death of Arnold’s dog Oscar underlines the poverty and at the same time the sadness he lives in because the reason was that they hadn’t enaugh money to pay the vet.

In the following I am going to analyse the stylistic devices in a part of chapter 2 (p. 17-21) and their effects. At the beginning there is a repitition: “[…] I am really just a poor-ass reservation kid living with his poor-ass family on the poor-ass Spokane Indian Reservation.”(p.17, ll.8-10). This sentence stresses Arnold’s pent-up anger and that he feels as if he is imprisoned in poverty. Arnold uses irony and retorical questions while speaking about himself maybe to stay strong and not becoming completely depressed: “And now I’m sure you’re asking, ‘Okay, okay, Mr. Hunger Artist, Mr. Mouth-Full-of Words, Mr. Woe-Is-Me, Mr. Secret Recipe, what is the worst thing about being poor?'”(p.18, ll.2-4). More repititions can be found on page 20 to 21, e.g.: “There was nothing I could do to save Oscar. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.” (p. 20, ll. 14-17). Those repititions always underline his feelings, in this example the frustration about Oscar’s death. Combinated with a repitition, there is finally a Hyperbole and comparison: “I was hot mad. Volcano mad. Tsunami mad.” (p. 21, l.5).

All in all the stylistic devices give an insight into Arnold’s feelings and make it possible to the reader to understand him.

In the following im going to analyse Arnolds feelings and his emotional conditions in chapter two.

In this chapter Arnold´s dog, Oscar, dies, which is even worse for Arnold, considering that Oscar is Arnold´s best friend(p. 18, l. 6). Oscar is suffering of heat exhaustion and he is feeling so bad, that Arnold wants to take him to the vet. The problem is that Arnold´s family is poor and can´t afford it to take Oscar to the vet. Arnold gets very angry and hates his family´s poverty even more(p. 21, ll. 5, p.23, l.17). He thinks Oscar is a better person than any human he had ever known(p. 19, ll. 15+16). The fact that he hasn´t got any friends except Rowdy makes it even more impossible for Arnold to let Oscar go because Oscar was with him all the time and if the family wouldn´t have been so poor, then Oscar could have lived on. Oscar´s illness and the family´s poverty lead to the solution to shoot Oscar to take him his pain. Arnold doesn´t agree with his parent´s idea at all and gets really mad when his father gets his rifle and tells Arnold to carry Oscar outside(p. 20, ll. 24- 27, p.21, l. 5). Arnold´s problem is that he can´t blame his parents because it´s not their fault they are poor. Arnold and his family have accepted the life in poverty( p. 17, ll. 11-17) and he only really seems to think about and hate his poverty when something bad happens that could have be prevented if the family wasn´t poor. For example he says that his parents both had dreams but they couldn´t follow them because they are poor(p. 23, ll. 14-16).

Arnold uses alot of anaphoras in connection with his poverty to highlight and underline his social situation(p. 17, ll. 8-10:” I wish I were magical, but I am really just a poor-ass reservation kid living with his poor-ass family on the poor-ass Spokane Indian Reservation.”).Also he uses neologisms to underline the message and make a vivid mental image(p. 18, ll. 2-3,:” Okay, okay, Mr. Hunger artist, Mr. mouth-full-of-words, Mr. Woe-is-me, Mr. Secret Recipe, what is the worst thing about being poor?”). This chapter underlines Arnold´s familys poverty the most because the chapter describes Oscar´s death which just happened because of Arnold´s parents poverty. To underline that there is a repetition(p.20, ll.15-17,:”Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.”).  After that the author uses a metaphor to express Arnold´s dependance of his parents(p.21,ll.12-14). With this metaphor it´s clear that Arnold needs his parents and that when Oscar is dead, he will need them even more.

All in all, there can be said that this chapter is a lot about poverty and about the hard life and disadvantages of being poor. It is described how sad and frustrating the life in poverty is and how hard it is to accept it.

In the following I’m going to analyse Arnold`s feelings and emotions in the chapter “Why chicken means so much to me” and explain his emotional conditions. In this connection I will look closer at his language and the stylistic devices used in the text.

It’s very obvious that especially in this chapter Arnold uses a lot a of repetitions to stress his statements and to make them memorably. For example on page 17, ll. 8-10: “[…], but I’m really just a poor-ass reservation kid living with his poor-ass family on the poor-ass Spokane indian Reservation.”. This shows that he is not happy about being poor because he connects “poor” with “ass”, which is a negative word.

This thought gets more clear in the following of the Chapter, where he tells us about the fate of his dog Oscar, who was very important to him. This is shown with the enumaration on page 19, ll. 12-14. But one day Ocar got sick . Arnold makes use of the repetition/ anaphora “Nothing.Nothing.Nothing” (p.20), which demonstrates how desperate and hopeless he was because he couldn’t do anything to save the life of his dog. The next anaphora expresses his anger towards his dad ( p21, ll. 8-10: “I wanted to […].I wanted to […].I wanted to […]”), because he decided to end the suffer of Oscar by shooting him. But he says that he knows that he can’t blame his parents. In this context he makes use of the methaphor “[…]my mother and my father are the twin suns around which I orbit and my world would EXPLODE without them.”and the concurrent exaggeration “EXPLODE” to stress the relevance of his parents for him. As he said they are as important for him as the sun, because just like nobody and nothing could live/survive without the sun, Arnold could not live without his parents. Another aspect needed to be focused on is the fact that the most used word in this chapter is “poor” ( almost in every page) -because it’t the main topic-,connected with a lot of negative and agressive words like “hate” (p.21), “blame” (p.21), “pain”(p.24) , “nothing”, “cry” etc., to  produce a bad emotion, so the reader is forced to associate a negative feeling with the word  “poor”. But there are still some postive words like “(to) dream” (p.21) and “believe”, “trust”  and “love”, to show that there is still hope left.

 

The diary “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” written by Sherman Alexie was published in September 2007. The second chapter is about the poverty of Junior and his hole family.
The chapter can be divided into two paragraphs. The first paragraph is about the wish of Junior who wants to buy Kentucky Fried Chicken, but isn´t able to because it´s to expensive (p.17-18). The second paragraph tells about Juniors best friend, his dog Oscar, who becomes ill and the parents can´t pay the vet,so they decide to shoot the dog down.

Now I´m going to analyse Juniors feelings, emotional conditions and his language.

“Okay, so now you know Í´m that I´m a cartoonist.” (p.17, l.1) says Junior. He shows us that he can describe his feelings better by drawing cartoons. The repitition “poor-ass”  (p.17, ll.8ff) underlines his lack off self-confidence. It also expresses his and their parents poverty. With the exaguration “And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.” (p.17, ll. 22f), he makes his wish of eating some chicken clearer. In the following he tells us that being hungry is just one bad thing about being poor (c. p. 18, l1). “So, okay, I´ll tell you the worst thing. Last week, my best friend Oscar got really sick.” (p.18, ll. 5f) speeks Junior. With this he makes sure that his dog is more important to him than his own hunger problems. “Honestly, Oscar was a better person than any human I had ever known.” (p.19, ll15f), with this he underlines this again. At next a conversation starts between Junior and his parents. His parents tell him that they can´t pay the vet because it will be to expensive (c. p.20, ll.1f). Junior tries to convince them by saying he´ll get a job and  pay the vet back later on (c. p.20, l5) . After a while he feels he can´t convince them “There was nothing I could do to save Oscar. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.” (p20, ll14ff). With this repetition his desparation gets clear. His father wants him to carry Oscar outside and wants to shoot him down (c. p.20,ll24ff.). He thinks it will help Oscar because when he´s dead he doesn´t have to suffer anymore (c. p.20,l26). “I want to hate[…]. I want to hate […]. Iwant to blame […]. (p.21, ll8ff.). This parallelism underlines his desparation aswell. On the one hand he is really angry of his parents but on the other hand he can´t blame them because they aren´t guilty for their poverty and his world would “explode” (p.21, l14) without them (c. p.21, ll11ff).

To put it in a nutshell he seems to be really depressed person and he needs more self-confidence. without is friend he gets more sad and looses a really important part of his life.