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* UsefulNotes/ComputerWars: Dear God, don't get Gordy started on Mac vs. PC.
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* NoodleIncident: A Scholastic edition describes a racist joke told to Arnold [[spoiler: which provokes him to punch the JerkAss who tells it]] as "involving Indians, African-Americans, and buffalo" rather than repeating it.
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** The three older boys from the Rez wearing Frankenstein masks beat up Arnold on Halloween night, stole his candy and donation money from him, and got off Scott free.
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** The three older boys from the Rez wearing Frankenstein masks beat up Arnold on Halloween night, stole his candy and donation money from him, and got off Scott free.scot-free.
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* AbridgedForChildren: An edition of the book published by Scholastic omits an incident of racist language (“Did you know that Indians are living proof that niggers fuck buffalo?”) and refers to it simply as "a joke involving Indians, African-Americans, and buffalo."
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* {{Bowdlerization}}: An edition of the book published by Scholastic omits an incident of racist language (“Did you know that Indians are living proof that niggers fuck buffalo?”) and refers to it simply as "a joke involving Indians, African-Americans, and buffalo."
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%% * TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: There's a scene in a science class that plays this straight.
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* HighPressureEmotion: Arnold's drawing of Mr. Dodge giving a DeathGlare compares Mr. Dodge to a volcano, and Arnold quips that his face got so red that it made him wonder why Indians are called "redskins" and not whites.
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* MagicalQueer: Discussed, when Junior says that Indians used to think this.
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* MagicalQueer: Discussed, when Junior says that Indians used to think this. In his culture, men are considered warriors, and women are considered caregivers, and since they saw gay people as being both male and female, [[MasterOfAll they were as seen as both caregivers and warriors.]] When his tribe picked up Christianity, he says, that's when they started seeing homosexuals as abominations.
* MiseryBuildsCharacter:
**Defied. At one point, Arnold delivers a tirade against the idea that poverty builds character, saying it really just makes people feel powerless and hate themselves rather than making them stronger.
-->"It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow ''deserve'' to be poor. You start believing that you're stupid and ugly because you're Indian. And because you're Indian you start believing you're destined to be poor. It's an ugly circle and ''there's nothing you can do about it''. Poverty doesn't give you strength of teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor."
**This is also reflected by various parts of the storyline. For example, for much of the book, Arnold pretends his parents are always there to pick up him at the end of the school day, when in actuality, he usually just hitch-hikes, since his family is barely scraping by and can't always afford the gas money to take him to and from school. This experience doesn't teach him patience or anything; it just reinforces the fact that he's poor and can't keep the charade of being middle-class going for long, which are things he knew already. When he opens up about being poor, he actually does learn something, namely [[YouAreNotAlone that the people at his school are kinder than he thinks and that they're willing to help him if he just asks.]]
**Defied. At one point, Arnold delivers a tirade against the idea that poverty builds character, saying it really just makes people feel powerless and hate themselves rather than making them stronger.
-->"It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow ''deserve'' to be poor. You start believing that you're stupid and ugly because you're Indian. And because you're Indian you start believing you're destined to be poor. It's an ugly circle and ''there's nothing you can do about it''. Poverty doesn't give you strength of teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor."
**This is also reflected by various parts of the storyline. For example, for much of the book, Arnold pretends his parents are always there to pick up him at the end of the school day, when in actuality, he usually just hitch-hikes, since his family is barely scraping by and can't always afford the gas money to take him to and from school. This experience doesn't teach him patience or anything; it just reinforces the fact that he's poor and can't keep the charade of being middle-class going for long, which are things he knew already. When he opens up about being poor, he actually does learn something, namely [[YouAreNotAlone that the people at his school are kinder than he thinks and that they're willing to help him if he just asks.]]
* MockMillionaire: Well, Mock Middle-Class but the dynamic is still very much there. Arnold pretends that he's middle-class just like the other kids at Reardan and gives all the manner of excuses for not spending money on things (e.g. claiming Indians are allergic to sugar to explain why he can't buy treats for a bake sale fundraiser, saying he's too sick to pay to attend a field trip, pretending he has to go to an "Indian ceremony") He knows full well that he can't put on the charade for long ("Lies have short shelf lives", as he puts it) and fears Penelope will break up with him if he tells her he's actually poor, but he feels pressured to do so anyway because the white people at the school assume the Indians on the rez get a lot of money from their casino and government handouts (in reality, the casino is losing money, and they don't get any government money, which are both very much TruthInTelevision.) When Arnold confesses to Penelope and Roger that he's actually pretty poor after the Winter Formal, they're sympathetic to his plight, much to his surprise. Roger even drives him home that night, and many more nights afterward.
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** While Arnold is grieving [[spoiler:Eugene and
**At another point, Gordy also gives Arnold a copy of ''Literature/AnnaKarenina''. Arnold is not impressed by its famous opening line (translated in this book as "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."); he says every unhappy Indian family is unhappy for the same reason, that being booze.
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* TheTeetotaler: According to Arnold, his grandmother is one, which is extremely rare given his tribe's propensity for being TheAlcoholic (including his own dad).
-->"Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling," she used to say. "Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all my senses intact?"
-->"Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling," she used to say. "Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all my senses intact?"
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* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: What motivates Arnold to transfer to Reardan. After Arnold throws a book that accidentally hits Mr. P, Mr. P, to Arnold's surprise, comes over to Arnold's house and tells him that he's stronger than he thinks and has great potential. He urges him to find a better life for himself rather than give up like everyone else on the reservation (including Mr. P himself.) Arnold is not sure what to think of it at first (he's still stuck in the mindset that he deserves to be poor), but he eventually realizes he has to transfer schools if he wants to succeed in life.
-->"I want you to say it," Mr. P said.\\
"Say what?"\\
"I want you to say that you deserve better."\\
I couldn't say it. It wasn't true. I mean, I wanted to have it better, but I didn't deserve it. I was the kid who threw books at teachers.\\
"You are a good kid. You deserve the world."\\
Wow, I wanted to cry. No teacher had ever said anything so nice, so incredibly nice, at me.
-->"I want you to say it," Mr. P said.\\
"Say what?"\\
"I want you to say that you deserve better."\\
I couldn't say it. It wasn't true. I mean, I wanted to have it better, but I didn't deserve it. I was the kid who threw books at teachers.\\
"You are a good kid. You deserve the world."\\
Wow, I wanted to cry. No teacher had ever said anything so nice, so incredibly nice, at me.
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* SatelliteLoveInterest: Rowdy's father is an abusive father and alcoholic. The abuse he had received from his father made Rowdy into an angry bully.
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* SatelliteLoveInterest: SatelliteFamilyMember: Rowdy's father is an abusive father and alcoholic. The abuse he had received from his father made Rowdy into an angry bully.
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* SatelliteLoveInterest: Rowdy's father is an abusive father and alcoholic. The abuse he had received from his father made Rowdy into an angry bully.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Early in the book, Junior mentions he is very good at masturbating.
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* UnknownRematchConclusion: Junior and Rowdy become rivals after the former transfers to Reardon high school. Junior wins a basketball game against Rowdy and his team, but their friendship is fixed when they got out of school for the summer. The boys play a basketball game one on one, with the winner being left unknown.
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To whoever wrote this, I scarcely believe in greeting violence with violence, but I also believe that anyone who has lived on planet Earth for more than five years who says "Indians are living proof that n***ers f*ck buffalo" should see it coming.
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** Arnold never got detention nor got expelled after he punch Roger in the face telling a racist joke in front of him.
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* BullyMagnet: Arnold used to get beat up in the Rez by some kids who made fun at him due to the fact that he has Water in The Brian since he was born. When he attended at Reardon High School, he never got bullied there ever since.
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* BullyMagnet: Arnold used to get beat up in the Rez by some kids who made fun at him due to the fact that he has Water in The Brian hydrocephalus since he was born. When he attended at Reardon High School, he never got bullied there ever since.
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* KarmaHoudini: Rowdy's abusive drunken father never got his comeuppance at the end of the book.
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** Rowdy's abusive drunken father never got his comeuppance at the end of the book.
** Rowdy's abusive drunken father never got his comeuppance at the end of the book.
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: [[spoiler:Four of Arnold's family members and his dad's best friend die in alcohol-related incidents. Grandmother Spirit gets run over by a drunk driver, Eugene gets shot by his best friend Bobby over the last sip from a wine bottle, and Mary (and her husband) burn to death in their trailer after someone heats up soup on a hot plate, forgets about it, and a gust from an open window knocks the hot plate onto the ground.]]
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: [[spoiler:Four [[spoiler:Three of Arnold's family members and his dad's best friend die in alcohol-related incidents. Grandmother Spirit gets run over by a drunk driver, Eugene gets shot by his best friend Bobby over the last sip from a wine bottle, and Mary (and her husband) burn to death in their trailer after someone heats up soup on a hot plate, forgets about it, and a gust from an open window knocks the hot plate onto the ground.]]
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: [[spoiler:Three of Arnold's family members and his dad's best friend die in alcohol-related incidents. Grandmother Spirit gets run over by a drunk driver, Eugene gets shot by his best friend Bobby over the last sip from a wine bottle, and Mary (and her husband) burn to death in their trailer after someone heats up soup on a hot plate, forgets about it, and a gust from an open window knocks the hot plate onto the ground.]]
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: [[spoiler:Three [[spoiler:Four of Arnold's family members and his dad's best friend die in alcohol-related incidents. Grandmother Spirit gets run over by a drunk driver, Eugene gets shot by his best friend Bobby over the last sip from a wine bottle, and Mary (and her husband) burn to death in their trailer after someone heats up soup on a hot plate, forgets about it, and a gust from an open window knocks the hot plate onto the ground.]]
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: [[spoiler:Two of Arnold's family members and his dad's best friend die in alcohol-related incidents. Grandmother Spirit gets run over by a drunk driver, Eugene gets shot by his best friend Bobby over the last sip from a wine bottle, and Mary (and her husband) burn to death in their trailer after someone heats up soup on a hot plate, forgets about it, and a gust from an open window knocks the hot plate onto the ground.]]
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: [[spoiler:Two [[spoiler:Three of Arnold's family members and his dad's best friend die in alcohol-related incidents. Grandmother Spirit gets run over by a drunk driver, Eugene gets shot by his best friend Bobby over the last sip from a wine bottle, and Mary (and her husband) burn to death in their trailer after someone heats up soup on a hot plate, forgets about it, and a gust from an open window knocks the hot plate onto the ground.]]
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* TackyTuxedo: Because his family is too poor to afford a new outfit for him, Arnold has to wear one of his dad's hand-me-downs to the high-school dance; a tacky disco-style suit his dad bought in the 1970s.
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* ContemptibleCover: The book itself doesn't have one, but the trope is discussed. Mary likes to read romance novels about love affairs between virginal white schoolteachers/preacher’s wives and half-breed Indian warriors. Arnold draws an example of a cover for such a book, featuring a swooning woman (with very visible cleavage) in the arms of a muscular Indian wearing a stereotypical feathered headband.
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** Arnold never got detention nor got expelled after he punch Roger in the face [[Disproportionate Retribution for telling a racist joke in front of him.]]
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** Arnold never got detention nor got expelled after he punch Roger in the face [[Disproportionate Retribution for telling a racist joke in front of him.]]
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** Arnold never got detention nor got expelled after he punch Roger in the face [[Disproportionate Retribution: for telling a racist joke in front of him.]]
** The three older boys from the Rez wearing [[Film/Frankenstein]] masks beat up Arnold on Halloween night, stole his candy and donation money from him, and got off Scott free.
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** Arnold never got detention nor got expelled after he punch Roger in the face [[Disproportionate Retribution: Retribution for telling a racist joke in front of him.]]
** The three older boys from the Rez wearing[[Film/Frankenstein]] Frankenstein masks beat up Arnold on Halloween night, stole his candy and donation money from him, and got off Scott free.
** The three older boys from the Rez wearing
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* BullyMagnet: Arnold used to get beat up in the Rez by some kids who made fun at him due to the fact that he has Water in The Brian since he was born. When he attended at Reardon High School, he never got bullied there ever since.
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* KarmaHoudini: Rowdy's abusive drunken father never got his comeuppance at the end of the book.
** Arnold never got detention nor got expelled after he punch Roger in the face [[Disproportionate Retribution: for telling a racist joke in front of him.]]
** The three older boys from the Rez wearing [[Film/Frankenstein]] masks beat up Arnold on Halloween night, stole his candy and donation money from him, and got off Scott free.
** Arnold never got detention nor got expelled after he punch Roger in the face [[Disproportionate Retribution: for telling a racist joke in front of him.]]
** The three older boys from the Rez wearing [[Film/Frankenstein]] masks beat up Arnold on Halloween night, stole his candy and donation money from him, and got off Scott free.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Many, many people at the reservation turn on Arnold for leaving for Reardan and deride him as a traitor, to the point that the students at his old high school chant "Ar-nold sucks!" and turn their backs on him when he shows up with his new basketball team to play against theirs.
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** Played somewhat straighter with [[spoiler:Rowdy at the end, who shows up at Arnold's door and expects to hang out with him, as if he hadn't spent two-thirds of the book furious with and haranguing Arnold for leaving him and the reservation to go to Reardan. He even claims he still hates him, and the only reason he came was because he was bored. Arnold contemplates telling him off or making him apologize, but decides not to because "[Rowdy] was never going to change", and after everything he's gone through up to this point, he's just glad their relationship has gone back to normal again.]]
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Imagine you're an American Indian. No, not a MemeticBadass or MagicalNativeAmerican. No, imagine you're born with hydrocephaly, ten extra teeth, and you've had glasses since age 3. And you have a lisp and stutter even in high school. Now imagine you go to a white school. And your reservation friends hate you for it. And even there, you're smarter than the teachers.
That is the world of Arnold Spirit Jr. in Creator/ShermanAlexie's ''The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian''.
That is the world of Arnold Spirit Jr. in Creator/ShermanAlexie's ''The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian''.
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Imagine you're an American Indian. No, not a MemeticBadass NobleSavage or MagicalNativeAmerican. No, imagine you're born with hydrocephaly, ten extra teeth, and you've had glasses since age 3. And you have a lisp and stutter even in high school. Now imagine you go to a white school. And your reservation friends hate you for it. And even there, you're smarter than the teachers.
That is the world of Arnold Spirit Jr. in Creator/ShermanAlexie's ''The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian''. Though acclaimed and awarded at its release, it has also been frequently banned for its frank depictions of alcohol, bullying, teen sexuality, and profanities.
That is the world of Arnold Spirit Jr. in Creator/ShermanAlexie's ''The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian''. Though acclaimed and awarded at its release, it has also been frequently banned for its frank depictions of alcohol, bullying, teen sexuality, and profanities.
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* AbusiveParents: Rowdy’s dad physically abuses him on a regular basis.
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* AbusiveParents: Rowdy’s dad physically abuses him on a regular basis.basis, which is implied to be why Rowdy is so quick to violence.
* BlackComedyBurst: [[spoiler:After Mary's death with her husband in a fire in their trailer, Arnold draws a parody romance novel cover of her and her husband in an embrace in a fire. Because drawing is his way of making sense of the world, it's all but outright stated he drew it as his way of grieving: he blames himself for her death because she only ran off to get married after he left for Reardan, as it was what inspired her to finally do something with her life as well.]]
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* RomanceNovel: Parodied with Mary's romance novels.
* RomanceNovel: Parodied with Mary's romance novels.
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* RomanceNovel: Parodied with Mary's romance
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* ICouldaBeenAContender: Arnold thinks his parents and sister could have had more successful lives, if only they hadn't been born Indian and poor. One of his drawings is "what my parents would have been if someone paid attention to their dreams".
