Thus, this books message was all about multiplying hope by hope and to never give up on even the slightest feeling of hope. Arnold was very successful due to the fact that he had high hopes and dreams. Arnold was devastated and depressed for a long time until he realized that although people come and go on the rez, you have to live your life with them in your heart you have to move on with hope. All of these deaths involved alcoholism in some way. And although Arnold was happy with his reputation in school as well as his academic performance, he experienced a tremendous amount of grief throughout the book due to his father’s best friend, Eugene, his grandmother, and his sister’s death. But as time went on, he finally made friends and (even a girlfriend!) became popular, although he lost his best friend Rowdy because Rowdy was mad at him for ditching the rez (and Rowdy himself) for Reardan. At first, he felt like an outcast due to the fact that he was the only Indian kid there. He left the reservation for good and attended an all whites school called Reardan. P believed that Arnold was smart and hopeful enough to leave the rez and become successful. P gives him a very influential speech that involved everyone not having hope except for Arnold. However, when Arnold goes to school one day and receives a textbook that used to be his mother’s when she went to school on the rez, Arnold gets upset that he has to deal with using the same textbooks their PARENTS used as kids and also the fact of being poor and hopeless that he throws the book at his teacher, Mr. Everyone on the reservation has given up on their dreams because they think that since they are Indian, they are not eligible to do things white people can. Everyone on the reservation is very depressed because nothing new is ever contributed to the Indian culture and they are also too poor to make anything jazzy. His entire life has been on the reservation: he goes to school there, lives there, has friends there, and has his entire family there. It is about the protagonist named Arnold Spirit who lives on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. I have currently finished the realistic fiction/non-fiction book The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.
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