Sunday, March 11, 2012

Changing Who You Become

Week 8, we took a deeper look at the first section of the novel, and how "choice" plays a role in Junior's life.

"And this book says something else: that as much as you can love your parents, as much as you can love your community, as much as you can love your family, you can also be radically different from them.

It says that you can be part of your family and yet distinct from it, and that doesn’t change your love for your family, but it changes who you become."

Sherman Alexie, speaking about The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian