December Blog #2 Theme

I believe one of the central themes of the story is to never let Isolation ruin your life. In the story “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” the protagonist Junior or Arnold Spirit has lived in Isolation all his life. One example from the story would be how Junior was the only Indian at the Reardon School besides the school mascot. Junior would go to school on his own since he was an Indian and all the other kids were white. At school all white kids would insult Junior and refuse to hang out with him, this caused junior to feel ostracized by the rest of his school. However he soon learns to live with isolation and he untimely becomes one of the most popular kids at school. This can relate to the world by telling audience not to get so worked up about being isolated. People in this world do drugs and alcohol just to relieve them from the fact that they are alone, some people even commit suicide just to get away from it all.