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Similarities and Differences on the Reservation and Reardon From the book “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian '' by Sherman Alexie shows many different examples of similarities and differences, Junior has had many different experiences with his time at Reardan and his time at Wellpenit. Junior's freshman year he has moved schools and is in a mostly white environment, which is new for him, because he is from a school full of Indians kids. There are many similarities and differences between Juniors life on the reservation and his life at Reardan. To begin, there are similarities on the reservation and at the white school, Reardan. Junior played basketball at both schools, but he didn't think he was good enough to make varsity at Reardan. “I suppose it had something to do with confidence. I mean I’d always been the lowest Indian on the reservation totem pole - I wasn’t expected to be good so I won’t. But in Reardan, my coach and the other players wanted me to be good. They needed me to be good. They expected me to be good. And so I became good.” (180) Junior did not believe he was good enough to play varsity, but he worked hard and became better for Reardan. Another similarity would have to be Junior friendships on the reservation and at Reardan. Rowdy is …show more content…

In Reardan, they were able to afford new books, but were not able to afford the new books at Wellpenit. “So that means my mother was born an Adams and she was still an Adams when she wrote her name in that book. And she was thirty when she gave birth to me. Yep, so that means I was staring at a geometry book that was at least thirty years older than I was.” (31) Junior explains how he has gotten his mothers book from when she was in school 30 years ago. Another example is that Reardan has very fun school dances when they dress up very nice, while at Wellpenit they don’t have dances. Those are only a few examples of differences shown in this

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