The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

In the Sherman Alexie's book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, the narrator Arnold Spirit, commonly referred to as Junior, is of Native American descent. Junior lives on a reservation and faces a challenge when he reaches his freshman year of high school. Mr. P, a teacher who works on the reservation Junior lives on warns him about the dangers of staying on the reservation, and that Junior would be able to live a better life in the future if he were to leave the reservation.
Reservations still exist today, both physical and metaphorical reservations that people just have to get away from to grow as a person. I used to go to an elementary school called James Ward. James Wards was a small school located near Chinatown. I enjoyed my time at James Ward and I've dug my roots into that school. It wasn't until the sixth grade that I decided to leave the school for the Whitney Young Academic Center.
James Wards wasn't a very great school but it was better than most schools, which is what I liked about it. In all honesty I really didn't want to leave. However, I knew that Whitney Young had more to offer me than James Ward did. I became aware of the fact that Whitney Young was on a whole other level than James Ward. So I went and tested for the Whitney Young Academic Center, and I made it in. Here I am, a freshman in Whitney Young, and I don't regret my decision in leaving because I feel that I was able to accomplish more than I would have been able to in James Ward.

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Bigger Thomas was tried for the murder of Mary Dalton. During the trial, Bigger was defended by Max, a lawyer who was to help Bigger the best he could. Bigger did kill Mary Dalton, there was no denying such a fact which was already proven. However, Max tried to get the courtroom as to understand why Bigger had done it. Bigger was forced into a life he could not change by any means. Max pointed out that African Americans were forced to live a life of poverty, and resort to crime for a chance at a better life for themselves, and maybe even their families. In the room of Mary Dalton, Bigger was given a choice to either make Mary exist no more, and hide her death as best he could, or to knowingly turn himself in for her murder, and likely be hung for it. Bigger however, was still a criminal in the eyes of the whites. Although Max's sound argument in defending Bigger brought many new thoughts whites had not considered before, Bigger Thomas was only given the death penalty for his crime.

Green Light, Yellow Car, Church Steeple

Nick, the narrator of the story, The Great Gatsby, references about the Green Light, the Yellow Car, and the Church Steeple. Small little details with significant meaning in the story. While Nick was at Gatsby's party, "There was nothing to look at from under the tree except Gatsby’s enormous house so [he] stared at it, like Kant at his church steeple, for half an hour" (Fitzgerald ). Kant was a German philosopher who sought for his reality staring at a church steeple. Nick was entranced, contemplating about his reality and what would become if Daisy and Gatsby do run off. Even though this was a passage easily passed over, I found it to have a deeper significance to the story.