Last Chapters!

This last chapters started with some news that werent so pleasant. Arnolds Grandmother passed away. She was hit by a drunk driver in a truck. Her last words were "forgive him". Arnold and his family did but he still was sent to prision for 8 months. Pages later we found out Eugene, Arnolds dad best friend also died. He was shot in the head while drunk with a friend of him on a seven eleven. They fought for the last drink and hes friend accidentaly shot him. Because of all this Arnold made a lot of drawings and got really depressed. He missed a lot of school. Basketball season camed and Arnold as always vomited before a game because he was nervouse. But this time it was different, they were playing against Wellpinit. They won last time and this game decided who went to the playoffs and who didnt. Well long story short because of Arnold the Reardan team won by 40 points! They were going to the playoffs! Well Arnold wasnt really exited as his teamates were, he was ashamed. He looked at his dads face and he wasnt so pleased. Arnold realized that he made his original team loss and now Rowdys dad was going to beat him of because they loosed . Arnold just cried, not of joy but of shame. When the season ended Arnold emailed Rowdy saying sorry. What happened next actually shocked me, Arnold has been to 42 funerals and his only 14 years old. But the worst is that in this last chapters her sister Mary died. Arnold took this in a really weird way, he laughed and laughed and laughed without stopping. He also vomited while his dad picked him up to go to the funeral. He saw Rowdy there and he tried to talk to him but Rowdy tried to punch him while crying. But the only thing Arnold did was laugh. After that Rowdy told him how it was all his fault that she died and then raned away. Arnold had never seen him ran from anything. Every indian that died in his rezervtaion was mainly because of drinking. Arnold and his parents days later went to the cementery to make a picnic and to clean Eugenes, grandmother and Mary graves. They went there and all Arnold did was cry. He also just wanted to hug Rowdy and be friends with him again. The book starts ending with Arnold telling an old story of him and Rowdy back when they were little and how they had so much fun. Well the story finally ends with Rowdy finally talking to Arnold. He went to his house and asked him if he wanted to shoot some hoops, Arnold accepts. Arnold tried to convince Rowdy to go with him to Reardan but he didnt want to. Rowdy tells him how he had this dream where Arnold was in china and they start cryin saying how he would miss everybody. The book ends with them playing basketball and not keeping the score.

"Rowdy and i played one on one for hours. We played until dark. We played until the streetlights lit up the court. We played until the moon was huge and golden and perfect in the dark sky."

We can see here how in the last part of the book Rowdy and Arnold finally got along and they played for a very long period of time. I really liked this part.

"I rolled around on the cold, frozen ground and laughed and laughed and laughed."

This was after Rowdy tried to punch him and ran away on her sisterss funeral. Arnold was really crazy that day, full of different emotions and thoughts. 

The book ended! It was a really fun experience reading this book. I enjoyed every moment of it. I can say that this is actually my favorite book until now. I recomend this book for everyone that likes suspense and diary type of books. I am looking fowad to read more books like this on my engkisg class.

Her new friend...

I found extreamly interesting this last chapters and i will tell you why. In a class Arnold got bored and he went to the bathroom. Thats when he heard vomiting noises coming from the girls bathroom. He wanted to know who was there but the girl told him to go away, he stayed to see who camed out and it was Penelope. It turns out she was bulimic. She wasnt anorexic but she told to Arnold that she isnt as perfect as everyone thinks she is, that she feels lonely and stuff. Long story short they became really good friends, you could even say they were a couple. Very fast Arnold became really popular and everyone new him. He started being more than friends with penelope so his racist dad intervined and told Arnold to get away from her. They also talk about their dreams and what they want to do when they grow up. The two of them really got along. Besides all this, Arnold missed Rowdy a lot. He didnt know what to do with his love for Penelope so he emailed Rowdy asking for advice but Rowdy was mad at him and it didnt help and then he tried to ask for help to Gordy and it didnt worked as well. During this chapters i found the meaning of the title, Arnold is a part-time indian becuase he goes to his reservation and back to reardan. Also in a part of the book Penelope found out that he is poor but she takes it really well. Her sister emails him and tells him about hes life. Later on he was accepted on the schools basketball team. Their first game was against Wellpinit high. When Arnold got there the crowd was jeering on him. He was thrown a coin at his head and a lot of lood started coming out so he couldnt play but eugene his fathers best friend puted stiches and he was able to come back to the court just to being punched by Rowdy and getting a concucion and ending in the hospital. I ended this last chapters knowing that Arnolds dad took the small amount of money that the family had and he decided to get drunk on christmas, he came back home days later with a hangover and 5 dollars as a gift for Arnold.

"And then i noticed that the only indian who hadnt turned his back on me was Rowdy. He was standing on the other end of the court. He passed a basketball around his back,around his back, around his back, like a clock. And he glared at me."

This was before Rowdy knock him out on the floor. We can infer because of his actions that he was waiting pasiently for Arnold to get on the court so he could do something to him. I think that Rowdy overreacted about Arnold changing of school.

" I took a digital photo of my smiling face, and emailed it to Rowdy. A few minutes later, he emailed me a digital photo of his bare ass. I dont know when he snaped that pic"

I think that Rowdy is inmature, i think that he is like a bully. Arnold just sended him a picture of him smiling and he responded with a very discuting picture, that is not a very respectful way to respond.

A lot of things happened in this chapters and i enjoyed reading it. I really want to know what happens next with Rowdy and Arnold. I dont really think that Arnold will take revenge but you never know.

New school, New things happening

Well this next 7 chapters start with Juniors dad taking him to his new school in Reardan. He goes to the first day of school with a black eye from when Rowdy punched him and a garbage bag with his books and materials. In school he is givin hes ID, schedual and his homeroom by Melinda who was "hot for an old woman". He thought that she was pretty hot. In class he introduced himself by the name of Junior but the teacher said Arnold which was the first time we knew his other name. Kids laughed but he didnt care he just said that in that school he was Arnold and back home he as Junior. That was the class that he met Penelope. Not one week later and Arnold had already gotten in a fight because some kids bullied him calling him names so he just didnt stand it and he fought. He ´punched a kid named Roger which told Arnold that the fight between them wanst over. At that point Arnold wanted Rowdy to be with him so he can protect him but unfortunatly Rowdy hated him aswell. That day he saw her grandmother who was "always right" she told him that Roger wasnt going to fight back and that now Roger respected Arnold but Arnold just nodded and think she was crazy. The next morning Arnolds dad couldnt take him to school because the car didnt had enough gas so Arnold started walking the 22 miles to school. While walking to school Arnold ranned to Eugene who was his dads best friend who was always drunk and had a motorcycle. Eugene gave Arnold a ride to school. When he got there everyone saw that he got to school on a motorcycle and Roger saw it aswell. Roger didnt punched him that day, actually he talked to Arnold and nicely. Apparently grandma was right that Roger had respect for Arnold now. Junior tells us how he is really emotional when it comes to girls because he old us a story of a girl he loved 2 years before when he was 12 and how she didnt loved him. He started talking about all this since he has some feeling towards penelope that blonde girl of his class. In halween while making treat of treat to get some money 3 kids jumped him and spited on him and everything, they even took his money. The next day he told penelope about it and Penelope actually was worried and cared about Arnold. H e thought one of the kids that jumped him was probably Rowdy. After some lonley weeks for Arnold and the news that hes sister raned out to montana with some guy and that they got married Arnold met Gordy, a kid who have stuff in common with Arnold. They studied together a lot and became good friends quickly.


"They didnt beat me up too bad. I could tell they didnt wanted to put me on the hospital or anything, mostly they just wanted to remaind me that i was a traidor and that they wanted my money and candy."

This is the quote that explains better when the three kids with frankenstain masks jumped him. He said traidor because he changed of school and the people of his society didnt saw him the same way as before. I think that Arnold shouldev defended himself from those kids since he really needed that money and he wated all his time trick or tricking for nothing. 

"I wished Rowdy was still my friend. i could have sent him aster Roger. It would have been like king kong battling Godzilla."

This is the night after Arnold punched that kid in the face. He was really scared of what the kid was going to do to him the next day so he was thinking how would it had been if Rowdy was still his friend. Arnold wanted Rowdy to be hes friend at that point but things had changed. He was taking for granted what he did.

This chapters were really fun and interesting to read. I want to know what happens next. I hope that Arnold makes some new friends besides Gordy. I predict that Arnold and Rowdy are somehow going to be friends again and their going to do some fun stuff. As of now im really liking this book.

The life of a Part time Indian kid

Im reading the book "The absolutely true diary of a Part time indian" by Sherman Alexie. First of i would like to say that i heard that this book was interesting let me tell you what has happned till now. Well the story starts of by the narrator being the principal character of the book. He explains who is he by telling you how he had too much fluids on his brain and doctors had to remove some and that caused him to be different than other kids. He has big feet, big arms, a really big head, some weird looking glasses and some bad teeth, and steel his very short. He takes advantage that hes introudicing himself so he aswell shows us hes love for drawing by making one of himself, He tells how he loves drawing so much and how he thinks it helps people to communicate. He draws all the time and he draws everything. Drawing is a big part of his life since he wants to be recognized by his drawings. Junior is poor, his family is poor and he lives in a poor communit called Wellpinit. He believes that with hes drawings he will get his family out of there. Junior talks about how KFC chicken is so important to him because he dosent get to eat it all the time because he is poor. He and his family have a dog called Oscar that is Juniors best friend he got sick and the family was too poor to cure him so to end his misery Juniors dad shot him with a gun, that devastated the kid. After that Junior intreduces his other human best friend called Rowdy who is kind of a tough guy, he always gets in fights and he always has a black eye. They went to a fair that the community had and some kids were bullying Junior so Rowdy punched them, thats when Junior realized that Rowdy was like his protector. Rowdys parents are alwasy drunk just like Juniors but Rowdys parents tend to hit him a lot. Junior talks about his older sister and his love for basketball. He talks about how he loves geometry class. One day the teacher (Mr.P) was giving out some textbooks to work on when he saw one that had his mothers name on it. That made him really mad because he realized that hes class was using a textbook that was almost 30 years old and that hes school was extreamly poor so he went crazy and he throwed the text book to Mr. P which got him on big trouble. He was suspended and forgived by his teacher. Eventually Junior manages to get his parents to change him of school to a "rich kids school" which the parents are able to get him on. They told him that the transaction wasnt going to be easy becuase of the friends and everything. The next day he tells rowdy taht he is changing of school to Reardan and he gets really really mad and punches him. This was everything important that happened to Junior in the first 7 Chapters. 

“It sucks to be poor, and it sucks 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. And because you're Indian you start believing you're destined to be poor. It's an ugly circle and there's nothing you can do about it."

In this quote we can see how Junior thinks too much and how he dosent believe in himself. He needs to be proud about his race and who he is becuase at the end theres nothing you can do about it. He needs to think different in order to do something about his poverty.

“Everybody on the rez calls me a retard about twice a day. They call me retard when they are pantsing me or stuffing my head in the toilet or just smacking me upside the head.”

I think he shouldnt listen to them because it dosent matter what people think about you. And if they physically abuse him then he should make something about it because its not ok.

As some final thoughts about Junior and his life as now i think that is pretty interesting and i just want to keep reading becuase i want to know what happens next in his life. I predict that he will do great at his new school and that he will do a lot of friends there. I also hope that someone finds how much talent Junior has with hes drawings. He is a good kid.