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|artist=Sherman Alexie | |artist=Sherman Alexie | ||
|subject=Explicit Sexuality | |subject=Explicit Sexuality, Violence | ||
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|location=Chicago, IL | |location=Chicago, IL | ||
|description_of_content=''The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian'' is a 2007 novel for young adults written by Sherman Alexie and illustrated by Ellen Forney. The novel is a first-person narrative by Native American teenager Arnold Spirit Jr., also known as "Junior", a 14-year-old budding cartoonist. The book details Arnold's life on the Spokane Indian Reservation and his decision, upon encouragement from a reservation high school teacher, to go to an all-white public high school in the off-reservation town of Reardan, Washington. Junior traverses through the endemic alcoholism, poverty and hopelessness he sees on the reservation, as well as the bullies and racism he encounters at school. | |description_of_content=''The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian'' is a 2007 novel for young adults written by Sherman Alexie and illustrated by Ellen Forney. The novel is a first-person narrative by Native American teenager Arnold Spirit Jr., also known as "Junior", a 14-year-old budding cartoonist. The book details Arnold's life on the Spokane Indian Reservation and his decision, upon encouragement from a reservation high school teacher, to go to an all-white public high school in the off-reservation town of Reardan, Washington. Junior traverses through the endemic alcoholism, poverty and hopelessness he sees on the reservation, as well as the bullies and racism he encounters at school. | ||
|description_of_incident=Parents of incoming freshmen at a Chicago high school were complaining about the English summer reading assigned in the curriculum: ''Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian'' by Sherman Alexie, book that narrates the "story of a 14-year-old American Indian who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school." The parents asking for the banning of the literary text have asked for this given that according to them the book uses "foul language and describes sexual acts" that they do not find suitable for their children. | |description_of_incident=Parents of incoming freshmen at a Chicago high school were complaining about the English summer reading assigned in the curriculum: ''Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian'' by Sherman Alexie, book that narrates the "story of a 14-year-old American Indian who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school." The parents asking for the banning of the literary text have asked for this given that according to them the book uses "foul language and describes sexual acts" that they do not find suitable for their children. | ||
|description_of_result=Parents of the freshmen want to make it a matter of putting labels in books just as they do in movies and music albums. The head of the school mentioned that if parents did not agree with the summer reading they’re kids were allowed to read the book ''DownRiver'' instead. | |description_of_result=Parents of the freshmen want to make it a matter of putting labels in books just as they do in movies and music albums. The head of the school mentioned that if parents did not agree with the summer reading they’re kids were allowed to read the book ''DownRiver'' instead. | ||
|image=Alexie.jpg | |image=Alexie.jpg | ||
|source=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-06-22/news/0906210159_1_part-time-indian-absolutely-true-diary-ban | |source=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-06-22/news/0906210159_1_part-time-indian-absolutely-true-diary-ban | ||
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