Dit boekverslag gaat over het Engelse boek The absolutely story of a part-time Indian geschreven door Sherman Alexie. De onderdelen die worden besproken zijn: theme, plot, settings, description main character, how do you relate to the main character, short summary en own opinion.
Book Title: The absolutely story of a part-time Indian
Author: Sherman Alexie
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 250 pages
Theme: The universal idea that stretches through the entire story is that in spite of
the situation you live in, you must always pursue your dreams. Junior comes from a
poor family and he is in a poor school. He uses the book for geometry that his mother
also used. Junior decides to transfer to Reardan, a school in a wealthier district. He
wants to learn things and get a good education and he knows that his first school
cannot offer him that so he goes to this school. He is the only person that is not
white, but it does not matter him and he follows his dreams. Another example of why
Junior is following his dreams is that he is going to play basketball. He loves the
game, but he has never dared it. At his new school he goes into the team and is one
of the best players. So you see that sometimes you have to dare to reach your goals
and take steps. This is the message of the book.
Plot: Junior is a fourteen-year old boy living on the Spokane Indian Reservation in
Washington. Junior's family is poor.
At school, Junior is one of the few students who is interested in learning. He is
excited to start reading his geometry textbook until he opens the cover and
realizes that he is supposed to be studying from the same exact book his mother
used when she was in high school. Frustrated with the lack of educational resources
available on the reservation, Junior hurls the textbook across the room and
accidentally hits his teacher, Mr. P, in the face.
Junior is suspended from school, and Mr. P comes to visit him at home. Junior takes
Mr. P.'s advice and decides to transfer to Reardan, a school in a wealthier district.
Junior's parents are supportive of his decision, but Rowdy is furious.
Junior decides to try out for the Reardan basketball team. Reardan's first game of
the season happens to be against Wellpinit, the reservation school. All the spectators
from the reservation turn their backs on Junior. During the game, Rowdy jumps
Junior violently and knocks him unconscious.
Over the Christmas holidays, Junior's father gets drunk and disappears with all the
family's money. A larger tragedy hits Junior's family soon thereafter,
when Grandmother Spirit is killed by a drunk driver in a hit-and-run. Soon after
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