Through his interactions with Gordy, Penelope and other students at the school Junior learns both more about their culture and his own. The downside he looses his only friend Rowdy, who sees the move as a betrayal.Īt his new school he befriends a bright student Gordy and develops a crush on Penelope, the most popular girl in school. The poor guy is picked on by practically everyone on the reservation – his only friend is Rowdy, who is abused at home.Īfter receiving encouragement from one of his teachers Junior decides to leave the reservation and attend Reardon High School, an all-white school where the only other Indian ironically is the school’s mascot. As a result Junior is small for his age, suffers from seizures, has poor eyesight, a lisp and a stutter. He was born with Hydrocephalus (a medical condition in which there is an build-up of cerebrospinal fluid within the brain).
Junior is growing up on a Spokane Indian Reservation near Wellpinit, Washington. The novel follows fourteen-year-old Native American Arnold Spirit Jr., known as Junior, over his first year in high school. As the title suggests The Diary of a Part-Time Indian is written in a first person episodic diary format.
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