Everyday many kids get physically and emotionally hurt. Some of the students step in while others look away. The first year of high school is one of the hardest years of a young boy’s life. I watched a freshmen boy being bullied throughout the year, whether he was being made fun of because of his size or being pushed around by the older stronger boys. Every time after having his books knocked out of his hands or being pushed against the lockers one could see the hurt he was going through.
J is treated differently in many ways. J was mistreated in school by his classmates who made him feel worse about himself. School was worse than his parents. J had to show a signed slip each day proving his attendance. J felt scared of his own school, he was locked in a bathroom, with a few teenagers kicking him to death.
After three minutes of running, he tagged Daniel and he was it. I knew I could not out run Daniel, so I turned to run but foot was struck in a hole and then the next thing I knew I was it and on the ground and in pain. I did not know what happen but all I knew was it hurt. I saw my friends laughing at me and mocking me saying, “Look at the cry baby. What a sissy!” After I few minutes I got my foot unstuck and one of the playground people who were in charged ask if I was ok and if I was hurt but I told them no.
The showers are meant to be the boys reward after a big day digging all day then just hanging out in the wreck-room. The showers would definitely make anyone feel embarrassed. The Wreck-room is the place the boys would usually go after a dry and dehydrating day digging all day. The wreck-room has it all. It had A pool table, a T.V, a couch and a table.
The stereotypes and clichés shown throughout this film of urban schools, teachers, students, and families represent a vague idea of the reality of these environments. The film opens with the schools hallways and lockers collaged with graffiti, floor to ceiling. Students are portrayed as “in control”, rather than the teachers and higher authority. The lunchroom is a jungle of minority students, yelling and talking loudly, few are actually eating, and a fight breaks out between two boys. A teacher, trying to break up the fight, is eventually severely injured from his head being repeatedly bashed into the ground and has to be taken away on stretcher.
He never locked the door before this very night so I knew immediately that something terrible must have happened to my master. I beat on the door repetitively and begin to call him “Dr. Jekyll,” I cried, “Dr. Jekyll are you in there sir?” After a good length of time had pasted I began to think I may have to resort to more desperate measures. The door swings open with a great force and Dr. Jekyll is standing before me drenched in sweat, with a puzzled look on his face.
(page 1 to 98) “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, I have a better understanding on the name of the book even I am on the halfway through the book. Part-time: half white, half Indian. That sounds weird, but that described Junior’s complex feeling. If you ever moved to a new country or a new city, or transferred schools, changed jobs, then you might understand how Junior felt in the book. This book covers a lot of issues: poverty, social justice, racism, cultural shock, self-awareness, hope, isolation, friendship etc.
The treatment of children in factories was often cruel and unusual, and the children’s safety was generally neglected. The people who the children worked for would constantly beat them. For example, if a child worker came late to work or stopped to drink water, the factory owner would beat them with pieces of thick leather which had iron buckles at the end that drew blood every time it was applied. Many children were beaten so hard that they were unable to move and would become unconscious. Some of these beatings would lead to death.
We heard the bathroom door slam and saw Nigel making for the woodheap, nude. He went behind the woodheap and next thing we heard was thump, thump, thump coming from the bathroom along with cries of "I got you, you b...... I got you..." We all thought it might be a good idea to go and see what was bothering Nigel. Imagine our
The main theme of this book, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” (by Sherman Alexie), is about Junior trying to find strength and hope to accept himself. Stereotypes about Junior make him weak and hopeless. He thinks that he will have a better life if he is white. He can’t imagine himself to be successful academically and socially. As a result of prejudice and stereotypes to Junior, he becomes weaker and hopeless .