the absolutely true diary of a part time indian by sherman alexie

Another very often used stylistc device is an exaggeration (hyperbole), (p. That is a good way to describe the daily problems of Junior. Besides he uses a lot comparison/simile to create a vivid mental Image (p.12 ll.24-25 “And I started wearing glasses when I was three, so I ran around the rez looking like a three-year-old Indian grandpa”). This stylistic device has the effect that it Highlights something important, it focuses attention on the content of the passages. Sherman Alexie uses also a lot of anaphoras. Rhetorical questions have the effect to influence the Reader to come to a certain conclusion and to integrate the Reader more into the Story. 17 ll.11 “Do you know the worst thing about being poor?”, p.20 ll.7 “What kind of job can a Reservation Indian Boy get?”). For that he uses a lot of rhetorical questions (p. So the reader can feel the feelings of Junior. For that he uses his experiences as an Indian guy.

The Reader get the Feeling during the 29 chapters to be in the story. It is obvious that Sherman Alexies writing style is very agile. I´m a rez kid who´s gone urban.” For the semibiographic youth novel ” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” Sherman Alexie received the National Book Award for Young People´s Literature and also the swedish Peter Pan Price. Sherman Alexie tells about himself: ” I write about the Kind of Indian I am: Kind of mixed up, Kind of odd, not traditionel. He writes with a lot of humour about dismal conditions in the reservations and about the purpose in the life of Indians in towns. He stams from the trunk Spokane and Coeur d´Alene. Sherman Alexie is an Indian-american writer who was born on the 07 of october 1966 in Wellpinit. In the following I want to analyse the unique writing style of Sherman Alexie. In this novel Arnold tells the Reader his Problems in his daily life and how he wants to Change his life. It deals with the Young Boy Arnold called “JUnior” who lives with his poor Family in an Indian Reservation. The novel “The Absolutely True Diaryof a Part-Time Indian” written by Sherman Alexie was published in the year 2007.

The absolutely true diary of a part time indian by sherman alexie