There are many times during The Absolutely True
Diary of a Part-time Indian when alcohol abuse affect Junior. Most
significantly, Junior is torn when his father's best friend Eugene is killed over a
simple glass of wine. The two men had been drunk and had gotten into a fight, and
Eugene's killer shot him out of anger. Junior assumes that this would not have happened
if the two men had not been drunk, and he laments the fact that so many Indians on the
Spokane Indian Reservation turn to alcohol to deal with their
lives.
Junior is also really upset when his grandmother
dies--she is the only person whom Junior knows that did not drink, and ironically she is
killed by a drunk driver. This upsets Junior tremendously because he always confided in
his grandmother.
Finally, Junior is left to mourn the
tragic death of his sister Mary who dies in a fire because she was too drunk to detect
any danger. Junior looks back on the lives of these three important people and knows
that alcohol abuse led to each of their deaths. Senseless.
No comments:
Post a Comment