{"id":14421,"date":"2020-09-10T09:42:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T13:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=14421"},"modified":"2020-09-21T23:55:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T03:55:08","slug":"the-absolutely-true-diary-of-a-part-time-indian-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-absolutely-true-diary-of-a-part-time-indian-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Who are <em>The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian<\/em> characters? What is each character&#8217;s role in the story? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each of <em>The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian<\/em> characters plays an important role in Junior&#8217;s life and in the story. Junior values his friends and family and learns more about himself through these relationships. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading to learn about all of <em>The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian<\/em> characters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian<strong> Characters: Junior and His Family<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>These are some of <em>The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian<\/em> characters from Junior&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Junior (Arnold Spirit Jr.)<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Narrator Junior was born with too much cerebrospinal fluid in his brain, which he initially describes as a brain drowning in grease. But because this makes his brain sound like a big French fry, he decides it\u2019s more poetic to say that at birth, he had \u201cwater on the brain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At six months old, Junior had a surgery in which the extra fluid was sucked from his brain. His doctors predicted he\u2019d live as a \u201cvegetable\u201d if he didn\u2019t die during surgery, but he survived with only relatively <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/small-problems\/\">minor problems<\/a> relating to his brain damage. These include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Nearsighted vision in one eye and farsighted in the other<\/li><li>Seizures<\/li><li>A stutter and lisp<\/li><li>42 teeth (most people have 32)<\/li><li>A huge skull<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The extra teeth cause particular problems. When Junior\u2019s teeth get so crowded he has trouble closing his mouth, he goes to the Indian Health Service. The Indian Health Service only does this kind of work once a year, so Junior has to get all ten extra teeth pulled at once. Further aggravating the situation is the fact that <strong>the white dentist apparently doesn\u2019t think Indians feel as much pain as white people, so he only gives Junior half the Novocain.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Junior\u2019s large head also causes issues. Bullies on the reservation call him \u201cGlobe\u201d: They grab him, spin him around, and put their finger on his head, saying, \u201cI want to go there.\u201d Due to Junior\u2019s physical challenges and speech impediment, people on the reservation regularly beat him up and refer to him as a \u201cretard.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Junior\u2019s Mom and Dad<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In the book, Junior&#8217;s parents are important characters in <em>The Absolutely True Diary in a Part-Time Indian<\/em>. Junior\u2019s mother is an avid reader and can recite entire pages of text verbatim. She dreamed of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/is-going-to-college-worth-it\/\">going to college<\/a> and might have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-become-a-university-professor\/\">become a professor<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Junior\u2019s dad dreamed of being a musician. He has an amazing voice and plays the guitar and piano. He still keeps a high-school saxophone that he takes out to shine every once in a while.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But no one believed in their dreams. Junior\u2019s parents come from a long line of poor people, and <strong>like most of the other Indians on the reservation, they couldn\u2019t escape <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-is-the-cycle-of-poverty\/\">the cycle of poverty<\/a>.<\/strong> Both are alcoholics and suffer from depression. When Junior\u2019s dad isn\u2019t out drinking, he sits alone in his bedroom and watches basketball games on TV. But he doesn\u2019t cheer or boo or react much at all to what he\u2019s watching.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite their poverty and struggles with depression and alcoholism, Junior\u2019s parents are devoted to their son and encourage him to pursue his dreams, as we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Mary Runs Away (Junior\u2019s Sister)<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Though the reader only meets Mary through stories and correspondance, she&#8217;s still one of the important characters in <em>The Absolutely True Diary in a Part-Time Indian<\/em>. Mary\u2019s family calls her Mary Runs Away because she\u2019s so \u201ccrazy and random.\u201d Mary\u2019s former teacher, Mr. P, says she\u2019s one of the brightest students he\u2019s ever had. In high school, she dreamed of being a famous romance novelist, but after she graduates she \u201cfreezes,\u201d and no one knows why. She doesn\u2019t get a job or go to college. She spends most of her time alone in the family basement. Junior speculates that, like his parents, his sister is depressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Characters: Junior&#8217;s Friends<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>These <em>The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian<\/em> characters are Junior&#8217;s friends from Rearden and from the reservation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Rowdy<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Rowdy is one of the most important characters in <em>The Absolutely True Diary in a Part-Time Indian<\/em>. Rowdy is Junior\u2019s best (human) friend. (Junior\u2019s <em>best<\/em> friend is his dog, Oscar.) Junior considers Rowdy to be the \u201cmost important person in [his] life,\u201d even more important than the members of his own family. Rowdy and Junior were born on the same day in the same hospital, and they\u2019ve been friends ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rowdy is the toughest kid on the reservation. He\u2019ll fight anyone\u2014girl or boy, child or adult, human or dog. He even throws punches at the rain. He got into his first fist fight when he was in kindergarten: A first-grader had thrown a piece of ice during a snowball fight, which made Rowdy mad. He punched the first-grader and two of the first-grader\u2019s friends, and then he punched the teacher who tried to stop the fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rowdy\u2019s father is a mean drunk who beats him and Rowdy\u2019s mother, so they both always have bruised and bloody faces. Rowdy spends most of his time at Junior\u2019s house because it\u2019s a \u201csafe place.\u201d Rowdy loves comic books, and not the \u201ccool\u201d ones. He likes things like <em>Casper the Friendly Ghost<\/em>, comics meant for younger kids. These are perfect for Rowdy because he has a juvenile sense of humor and he struggles to read on grade level. When Rowdy reads, his tough-guy persona disappears and he becomes childlike, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/advantages-of-laughing\/\">laughing<\/a> at all the dumb jokes. As does Junior, <strong>Rowdy pretends he lives inside these fictional worlds\u2014they\u2019re far better places to live than his real life.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A New Friend at Reardan<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>One day, Junior approaches the Reardan \u201cclass genius,\u201d Gordy. They eventually bond over their mutual love of learning. Junior thinks Gordy is weird, but he also thinks he and Gordy have a lot in common. <strong>Junior believes that, just like he is, Gordy is lonely and terrified.<\/strong> While they don\u2019t become best friends, they start to study together, and Junior finally has an ally at Reardan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Other Allies at Reardan<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>There are additional <em>The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian <\/em>characters. For the first half of the school year, Junior attempts to hide his poverty from his Reardan classmates. When he doesn\u2019t have the money to pay for Penelope\u2019s meal after the winter formal, Roger, the jock who\u2019d told the racist \u201cbuffalo\u201d joke, offers to loan him money. Penelope later asks Junior if he\u2019s poor. Junior\u2019s tired of lying and tells her that he is and that he was also lying about his dad picking him up from dance. He admits that usually, he either hitches a ride or he walks, and the thought of Junior walking the 22 miles home makes Penelope cry. Before Junior can stop her, she asks Roger to drive Junior home. This is the first of many nights that Roger will drive Junior home from school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Junior realizes that while he\u2019s been preoccupied with Penelope\u2019s looks, she\u2019s actually been concerned about him.<\/strong> This realization makes him feel shallow. Junior sees that when you\u2019re honest with people, those people can turn out to be pretty incredible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who are The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian characters? What is each character&#8217;s role in the story? Each of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian characters plays an important role in Junior&#8217;s life and in the story. Junior values his friends and family and learns more about himself through these relationships. 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