Abiturempfehlung zu den Themebereichen Growing up und Native Americans: Die Interpretation zu Sherman Alexie: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian in englischer Sprache ist eine verlässliche und bewährte Textanalyse und Interpretationshilfe für Schüler und weiterführende Informationsquelle für Lehrer und andere Interessierte.

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• Foreword – At a glance
• Sherman Alexie: Öife & works
  • Biografy
  • Contemporary background
    • Indian versus Native American
    • Life on the reservations
    • Spokane
    • Alcohol
  • Notes on other important works
• Analyses and interpretations
  • Origins and sources
  • Summaries
    • The Black-Eye-of-the-Month Club
    • Why Chicken Means So Much to Me
    • Revenge Is My Middle Name
    • Because Geometry Is Not a Country Somewhere Near France
    • Hope Against Hope
    • Go Means Go
    • Rowdy Sings the Blues
    • How to Fight Monsters
    • Grandmother Gives Me Some Advice
    • Tears of a Clown
    • Halloween
    • Slouching Toward Thanksgiving
    • My Sister Sends Me an E-Mail
    • Thanksgiving
    • Hunger Pains
    • Rowdy Gives Me Advice About Love
    • Dance, Dance, Dance
    • Don’t Trust Your Computer
    • My Sister Sends Me a Letter
    • Reindeer Games
    • And a Partridge In a Pear Tree
    • Red Versus White
    • Wake
    • Valentine Heart
    • In Like a Lion
    • Rowdy and I Have a Long and Serious Discussion About Basketball
    • Because Russian Guys Are Not Always Geniuses
    • My Final Freshman Year Report Card
    • Remembering
    • Talking About Turtles
  • Structure
    • Introductory
    • Transition
    • Basketball
    • Death, grief and hope
    • Reconciliation
  • Characters
    • Arnold “Junior” Spirit
    • Junior’s family
    • Rowdy
    • Mr. P
    • Other characters on the reservation
    • Penelope
    • Gordy
    • Roger
    • Coach
    • The teachers at Reardan high school
  • Themes
    • Identity
    • Positivity
    • Life on the reservation
  • Style and language
    • The illustrations
  • Approaches to interpretation
    • Autobiography and “reservation realism”
    • Young Adult ?ction
    • “Issues”
    • Multiculturalism/Colonial literature
• Critical reception
• Materials
• Sample exam questions and answers
• Sources & references

Zitierte Ausgabe: Alexie, Sherman: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Stuttgart: Ernst Klett Sprachen GmbH, 2009.

Note: All page references are to the Klett English Edition of the novel (ISBN 978-3-12-578042-2) and refer to the page and line numbers: for example, 191.25 is line 25 on page 191.