In the poem “Spirit in Me” by Esther G. Belin,and the novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie both characters share similar life experiences such as effects from alcoholism that affect their lives negatively. Everyone in life has a goal they need to reach and to reach your goal you might have to go through emotional times and so did Junior from the book and the speaker from the poem.
Junior and the speaker were facing life the hard way because of the effects of alcohol.In the first story Junior’s family was being targeted by alcohole one by one because the rezervation was a place where everyone got drunk and died or they were killed by people who were drunk. “We’d lost my grandmother and Eugen how much loss were we supposed to endure” to ease the pain of losing precious people Junior went ahead and made fun of Jesus and god in a drawing because he was mad at god and Jesus for taking away the special people to him,and if that wasn’t enough Junior later on lost his sister Mary who was burned asleep because of a huge drinking party she had, Juniors grandmother died because of a drunk driver that hit her ,and Eugen was killed by his best friend fighting over the last alcohol. Junior wasnt the only one who lost special people to him because of alcohol ,but so did the speaker in the…
“don’t you ever drink my mother said to me. she slapped me once, twice, three times she slapped me harder promise me youll never drink” this was because so many people drank and were killed by drinking that got both the characters moms to…
