First Blog Post of 2K13

"the absolutely true diary of a Part-time Indian" by Sherman Alexie

This book, is supposed to be a diary, according to the title, but it is more of a book, about the life of a Indian  boy living in poverty, that struggles in his life. His name is Arnold.

Arnold has to deal with his sister that was locked in the basement for 6 years, and he never got to know her well, until she got married and moved to Montana and got married without telling anyone, and she wrote letters to Arnold. Mary dies, and Arnold has to grief about her death for a very long time.

Arnold needs to deal with his best friend Rowdy, who's father is drunk and abuses Rowdy all the time, which gives him the strength to fight, Rowdy is very tough and starts to hate Arnold around the middle of the book to the end.

Arnold needs to deal with his drunk father, the family barely has any money, and his father takes all the money that is left home, and goes to a bar and gets wasted. Later on, Arnold and his mother always have to go on a hunt to find him.

Penelope, Arnold gets beaten up a lot, and after his grandma died, he couldn't take it, he decides to start going to a school that is 22 miles away, which is filled with upper class kids, and there are no indians in that school. The first person to actually talk to Arnold is Penelope, Arnold develops a crush on Penelope and he knows that he would never have a chance with her, He makes alot of friends in his new school, and they all support him, but they dont know his real secret, the fact that he lives in poverty but his friends find out later in the book. Penelope cares alot about Arnold, and Arnold did not expect that, she didn't know what his pain  was like but she always supported him and treated him as a friend, even when everyone hated him in the beginning.

I think that Arnold is a very strong character. He has to deal with so much trouble, and he blames him self for certain things, like the cause of his sisters death. Arnold has to lie to his friends, and he feels like he is in a lot of trouble, and there is a lot for him to deal with.

Arnold is not a normal child, he was born with too much cerebral spinal fluid and it got his brain all disgusting, his thinking and breathing and living engine slowed down and got flooded with the fluid. He had a lisp and a stutter. and everyone always likes to beat him up, And due to this, his head is massive, and he could easily get hurt.

In the end, Arnold gets his friends back and he realizes that his friends is the ones that keep him going.

And i think that he is a very strong character.