Never Give Up

Author's Note: I am writing about the conflict & resolution in the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. I am writing to show the main conflict and how it get resolved. I am working on organization. Feedback would be great.

Arnold is a kid on a Indian reservation, but through all the ups and downs in his life he has kept his hope unlike everyone else. Now he has to take his hope somewhere else, where other people have hope. Arnold always been in conflict with mental and physical problems, even with his tribe. That didn't bring him down and now he has to do something about that. 

First,  Arnold didn't have such a great life on the rez. He is a Indian on a reservation.  Born with a variety of medical issues. He is always made fun of on the rez. Kids his age, teenagers, and even adults would pick on him or beat him up.  Leaving to go to Reardan was probably the best thing to ever happen to him. Maybe it would be hard for some people to leave your old life but I don't think it was hard for him.

Reardan started off not so great but quickly got better. At first he walks into the school no one bothers to talk to him, which is probably better than getting beat up. You could probably tell he was Indian but no one mentioned anything. But as he meets Gordy(nerd, friend, and tutor), Penelope(semi-girl friend), and Roger(friend, star basketball player). His life starts to turn around.

I think Arnold has always battled society. So the main conflict is Person vs. Society. In the beginning he was always against the tribe, during the basketball game vs the rez. Arnold wasn't just playing basketball against the team, but against the entire tribe. When he started Reardan, some kids were kind of racially against Arnold, but all he wanted to do was to fit in. Later it seem like the tribe just back off and stopped trying to make his life miserable because his sister and grandmother died. Now he has found a new society that loves him.

As rough as Arnold's life was nothing ever brought him down. Brain problems, a lisp, a stutter, the tribe, and many, many deaths. Instead of staying at the reservation and not ever having a chance of ever fulfilling his dreams, he went out there and did something big and now has a chance to do anything.