So far, Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is an interesting book on a 14-year-old boy's life on the Indian reservation. He is determined to go to a better school than the one on the reservation because a teacher had told him he was better than this school. This happens to be the same teacher that had his nose broken by this boy. This boy doesn't realize how under average his life is until this teacher shows him how old the textbooks are, how undetermined his parents are, and how all of the others on the rez don't have any perseverance. He decides to go to a school called Reardon 22 miles away. The problem is that his family is extremely poor, it's an all-white school, and his best friend Rowdy won't go with him.
I think that it's a bold move for him to leave everything his has at home to go to a different school so far away, especially since it's all-white. It seems like so far the Indians are way poorer than the white people and most of them aren't as smart because they don't get a good education. For example, they use their parents' textbooks. I'm not sure how he will get to school every day though because his parents can't always drive him there because of money and he can't just walk 22 miles. I also think this is a bold move considering the reaction he received from Rowdy. Rowdy will never forgive him for abandoning him but I don't understand why he didn't just go with him. They could've both gotten the education they needed if they went together.
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