By: Sherman Alexie
Reviewed by: JNoto, 14
Rating: Didn't like it
Arnold Spirit Jr. isn’t your typical Indian living on a reservation. He was born with excess fluid in his brain, leaving Arnold with 42 teeth, big hands and feet, and an unusually thin physique. Not only that, but he has poor eyes sight, stutters, has a lisp, and has recurrent seizures. His only human friend is Rowdy, a tough and cynical boy on the reservation.
After a talk with his high school geometry teacher, Arnold decides to transfer to an all white school in Reardan. Though Rowdy tries to talk him out of it he sticks with his decision and the whole reservation basically becomes his enemies. As he learns to cope with a new society, Arnold deals with hardship after hardship. Can he ever learn to be true to himself?
Definitely NOT for anyone in elementary school!
1 comment:
Why didn't you like it? Was it the content, the writing, or the subject? Was it something other than those things?
I know Sherman Alexie's writing can be pretty raw, and a lot of it is based on his personal experience. I read his book, "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven", as part of a college literature class. It is a collection of stories, one of which was adapted into the film "Smoke Signals". The subject matter isn't always happy, but it is honest and humorous.
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