So I read Sherman Alexie's Absolutely True Diary of A Part Time Indian over spring break. I flew through it in two sittings and loved it. I have decided to do my Literature Review on his book Flight, a book written in March of the year Alexie wrote Part Time Indian (September '07) and also from the point of a teenager. While I was home on break, my friend and I were hangin out and I told him about this book I was reading over for class. He told told me he read a similar book for class at College of Dupage and that he thought it was the same author.
The perspective of the novel is very enlightening to someone like me who has not experienced such a childhood. Understanding that Alexie based Junior's childhood of his own makes the novel that much more powerful. The pictures and teenage style will probably draw me back to this book. I have already decided I will force my younger brother to read it (who doesn't read books). I can relate to his character so much. The reality that shook Alexie when his grandma, father's friend, and older sister passed away in such a short time must have been devestating. But out of our biased, capitalist, self destructive society Sherman Alexie realised that we are ALL the same. Everybody feels pain in the exact same way. Everybody is just as afraid as the people living beside them.
I spent an hour this afternoon watching a video of him speaking "at Rutgers University's Newark Campus shortly after the World Trade Center attacks" http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6715652215188621499 Afterwards I watched Bush's phone call to Mayor Giuliani two days after 9/11 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvGas9Xq_kI
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