Mr. P is Junior’s math teacher. He becomes part of the novel in chapter four and five, specially in chapter five “Hope Against Hope” where Mr. P talks to Junior and convinces him to change school for the reason that Junior is special and very smart.

At the end of chapter four the character “Mr. P” is described as “a weird looking dude” (p.38 l.25). There is also a cartoon on page 39 where the reader gets a more detailed image of Mr. P’s physical appearance. He is drawn very thin and small but with a very big head in contrast which is similar to Junior’s appearance.                                                         A funny thing about Mr. P is that he sometimes “forgets to come to school” (p.38 ll.27-28) and because of that he “sometimes teaches class in his pijamas” (p.39 l.4). So I would interpret the character as a forgetfull and awkward person but his mistakes make him likeable. This is also why the pupils like him; he doesn’t expect much.             Relating to the conversation between Junior and Mr. P in chapter 5, the reader learns that Mr. P has still a bad conscience because of his past, when he helped to try to kill Indian culture. The fact that he visits Junior at home while being suspended from school lets me conclude that Mr. P is a teacher who really cares and worries about his pupils. He is a sympathetic and helpfull person.

The text at hand is an extract from the book “The Absolutely true Diary of a Part-Time Indian” written by Sherman Alexie in year 2007. The analysis is about chapter 24, which has the title “Valentine Heart”. It is about Junior´s father´s best friend Eugene and Junior´s feelings about this happening.

The first stylistic device is on page 174 in line 17 up to line 18: “My father went… My mother went…” , which is a parallelism. The author wants to emphazise that Junior´s parents don´t get grips with the death of their friend. A repitition can be found on page 174 in line 19: “(…)booze and God, booze and God, booze and God”. It shows that the whole life consists of booze and god. Furthermore the parallelism “I needed books. I wanted books.” (p.174, ll. 23) explains that Junior needs books to get grips with the death of Eugene. Another important stylistic device is on page 176 in line 1 (“And I drew and I drew and I drew(…)”), which is a repitition. It clarifies that drawing cartoons is for Junior the only way to handle the situation. The next stylistic device (” I was mad at God; I was mad at Jesus”, p.176, l. 2) is a parallelism and shows that he can´t believe in anybody anymore. Therefore another parallelism is on page 176 in line 7 up to line 8: “I wanted to find (…) I wanted to know(…)”, which is also a repitition ( I wanted(…) I wanted(…)”). It emphasizes how big his grief is about the death . After that a repition can be found on the same page in line 2 up to line 3 (” We lost(…) we lost(…) we lost(…)we lost(…) we lost(…)”). This intensifies that the Indians lost everything. The next repitition on page 178 in line 10 up to line 11 (“killed (…)killed (…) killed (…) killed”) shows that junior wants to kill everyone because of his desperation. Another important stylistic device is on the same page in line 29 (” Mrs. Jeremy was an old bird”), which is a metaphor and it expresses that Mrs. Jeremy teaches at Reardan for a real long time. Furthermore a repitition is in line 10 up to line 11 (” I would(…) I would(…) I would “) It intensifies that Junior did many things if he would be stronger.

In conclusion in my opinion it is difficult for Junior to handle the situation and he is searching for methods to get grips with the death of Eugene. Also his parents don´t know what to do and they process the death in different ways.

Dear diary,

normally I don´t write my feelings into a diary but now I don´t know with which person I could speak. A family´s good friend namend Eugene was killed by bobby. Bobby was Eugene´s friend. I can´t understand how you can shoot your friend!? I know, they both were drunk but this isn´t an excuse! I´m so sad about this incident and I don´t know how I should deal with the death of Eugene…At the moment I drown the pain in alcohol. Deep down inside me I know that it isn´t a way. Junior´s grandmother was killed by a drunk driver and Eugene is gone because he and his friend were drunk. Oh, wait. What is if someday i kill somebody because of my drunkenness?! I couldn´t forgive myself! And… Oh my God! If I go on like this maybe one day I will end like Eugene, so I will be killed. Then my familiy would be alone. Possibly I could die tommorow… What have I achieved in my life until now ?! Nothing. All what I did in my life was drinking! I think I have to stop drinking to protect my family and myself. I hope I will succeed. I will tell you more in a few days or weeks.

It was a friday,friday the 7th of october.
Friday, that means matchday..
This day was planned a big Match.
The Highschool against the INDIANS.

The match began with much energy and it was an exciting match. We had a full stand.
Everything was fine!
And another Important aspect to tell is about Junior called Junior , who is an Indian , who left the rez , to go to our highschool.
It means this match was against his old school and also against his old Friend Rowdy.
For junior it was clear, that he is going to lose the match,because his trainer told him to cover Rowdy all the time, the whole match.
Rowdy did a good match with his team and Junior seemed helpless, but then, something unexpected has happenend.
Rowdy was running with the ball and wanted to throw it into the basket. Rowdy jumped. And then, it happened something, nobody expected. For the first time , Junior jumped.He jumped higher than Rowdy. Shock moment. Nobody thougt this could happen and it seemed like Junior was shocked,too. So Junior took the ball,ran to the other side, he fainted and then he jumped and threw the basketball into the basket.
Nobody thougt this.Neither junior , nor his mother, who fell in unconsciousness.
At the end Juniors team won.
It was an amazing match and also Juniors trainer is shocked about what junior is able to do.

The diary “The Absolutely true Diary of a part -time Indian,” written by Sherman Alexie and published 2007, deals with a Indianboy named Arnold and his problems in school, life and with his poor family.

In the following I’m going to analyse Arnold Spirit Jr. and his feelings and his behavior.

Junior is round about 14 years old so he is in the middle of the puberty and is on the way to get an adult like every normal teenager (“I spend hours in the bathroom  with a magazine that has one thousand pictures of naked movie stars”, ll.9-10 p.35->puberty). But Arnold isn’t at all just a normal teenager he is something different. All teenagers are bored of school but he is excited in some way (“And I was most especially excited about my first geometry class”, ll. 2-3 p.35 ). Also you can see that Junior loves to masturbate and he tells it to everyone and isn’t ashamed because of this. So you can see that this is brave in a wierd way (“Yep, that’s right ; I admit that I masturbate. I’m proud of it. I’m good at it.  I’m ambidextrous”, ll.12-15 p.35). Another thing why Junior is wierd sometimes is that he has some strange habits. When he was eight he slept in his closet and only stopped it because his sister said that this is way to get back in his mother’s womb (ll.10-13 p.36). Maybe because of this Junior thinks that his sister Mary is good at ruining things (“My sister is good at ruining things”, l.19 p.36). In relation to this you could think that Junior doesn’t like his sister very much but not at all. He thinks that she is a very strong, beatiful and funny person(l.22 p.36). Junior says that ” [He is] not like her at all”, l.2 p.38, because he is steady, he is excited about life and he is excited about school (ll. 2-3 p.38). Arnold/Junior is a excited and steady person but he isn’t very self confident person and he doesn’t really believe himself (“[…] the bigger and better kids will crush me”, l.9 p.38). So he thinks that the other kids are better than him and that they give him a crap for being excited but he doesn’t care about that at all so he does his own thing (“And I know that the other kids are going to give me a crap for being so excited about school. But I don’t care”, ll.20-21 p.38). So you can see that Junior is very brave and excited about life and everything but in another way a little bit wierd. Another argument to call him wierd is that he calls himself a “bookkisser” so he loves to kiss, grab and smell them something like a fetish (” I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That’s right, I am a book kisser”, ll.4-8 p.41).

All in all it can be said that Junior is a very happy and excited teenager who wants to learn something about life but sometimes is very wierd and also different than other kids.

Penelope is a popular, white and beautiful girl at Reardan. She is close friends with Roger. But she has some big problems, she thinks that nobody takes her seriously, she feels lonely and her father is a racist, maybe that’s one of the reasons why she dates Junior. She wants to show her dad, that she isn’t a little and pretty girl.She has bulimia.
The friendship with Junior starts when he notices that Penelope also has problems. She tells Junior that her dream is to go away from Reardan, because it’s boring there, she wants to study architecture and to discover the world. Just as Junior but on another level.
The protest against the treatment of homeless people, shows that she is a social girl.
Penelope changes her behavior towards Junior because in the course of the novel she gets more open and Junior shows her that, she also can do it. Maybe Penelope doesn’t come closer to her dreams, but she has more hope for following and realizing her dreams as before the friendship with Junior.

I am going to analyse the Rearden teachers: Mr. Dodge, Mrs. Jeremy, Miss Warren and the coach. I start with Mr. Dodge who is the “science teacher” from Arnold. Mr. Dodge isnt a real science teacher. When the school hasnt enough money they must take other teachers and make them to a science teachers (p. 94 ll. 16-22). He is against Indian because on p. 93 Arnold contradicted him. He gets very fast red in the face and angry. But as an other student says the same Mr. Dodge gets in two seconds from blood red to snow white  in the face (p.94 ll.12-13) and he says “thank you” to this answer (p.95 l.6).                                                                                          Mrs Jeremy is the Rearden social studies teacher. When she makes a side commment about Juniors frequent absencesm, Gordy leads the class in a demonstration of defiance against her. Miss Warren  is the guidance counselor. She is fifty year old (p.204 l.26) but she is still pretty hot. She is all skinny and muscular becuase she jogged all the time (p.204 ll.26-29). Miss Warren gives Junior the news of Marys death and she cries at the same time (p.201 l.21). She is very emotional. The Coach of Juniors basketball team at Rearden High school treat his team with dignity and respect (p.144 ll.17-19). Coach becomes an impotant father figure for Junior. He admires Juniors attidude and supports his talent and potential in basketball.

The chapter is about Penelope’s problems of anorexics and how Junior and Penelope come closer.
It starts with Junior’s walk to the school toilet. Sitting on the toilet he hears some bad noises, like someone is vomiting. Then he knocks on the girls’ bathroom door, where the noises are from. A girl says that he should go away. So he goes but after a few meters he turns around and goes back. Shortly after, Penelope comes out of the bathroom, chomping on a bubble gum when Penelope asks him what he is looking at, he answers that he is looking at a bulimic. After he tells her that she should not give up she starts crying and tells Junior that she is lonley.The next few weeks the two become friends to the disapproval of Penelope’s dad and Junior gets a higher level in school, he is more popular. the teachers also show him more respect. One day Penelope tells him that she hates Reardan and that it is her dream to go away and to discover the world. She wants to study architecture with the intent to build something fabulous and being remembered. Junior says that he have the same dream, but for Penelope they are possible to reach. He likes her idea to go away, but he also says, that she has to eat more, if she wants to realize her dreams. He tells the readers that he loves to look and stare at the “crazy beautiful” Penelope.