Sara’s Comments (group member since Oct 22, 2012)

Sara’s comments from the 812 Discussion group.

In the realistic fiction novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian By Sherman Alexie. The quote "If you let people into your life a little bit,they can be pretty damn amazing" Arnold is probably trying to say that you have to try to take chances sometimes and open up a little bit. I think Arnold might be referring to like Roger and Penelope because at first he didn't think Roger would become his friend and thought he was a snobby white kid. Now that he's friend's with Penelope he probably realized that just because she said something about his nickname she can still be there for him, and Roger doesn't care wether Arnold is poor or not since he's always gonna be there for him. The reason why Arnold thinks he should open up a little is because he can't always judge people on the way they look or act once or twice. Since everyone changes and can be there for you no matter what because they can't dislike you forever.

I can relate to Arnold because i judged someone based on how they look. Then i actually tried talking to them one time and they happened to become my friend and now we actually talk all the time and were good friends and became closer. Now that we've become friends, i don't judge that many people as much as i use too. Because i actually started to open my life up a little and let people talk to me and get to know me better. Ever since that i pretty much talk to alot of people and she was really nice to me and was always there for me aswell just like when Roger was there for Arnold.

In the passage "Superman and Me" based on Sherman Alexie when he was a child, the reason why its called "Superman and Me" is because Sherman Alexie would read superman comic books when he was a child. The reason why he's like superman is because he always liked to teach others on how to do things and would help them on what they wanna learn if they can't do something. One example is that Sherman Alexie would teach young kids how to read and write since most of them didn't know how too so they learned how to read and write since Sherman Alexie started to teach little kids. The second example is that since his sister wrote romance stories he might of got inspired from her and thought to try to start writing some of his own storie's also because his dad loved to read book's and so did Sherman Alexie.

In Sherman Alexie's fiction novel book The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian, I think that the title of the chapter "Slouching Towards Thanksgiving" is called that because Arnold is either going to go through something during Thanksgiving and something might happen to him,Or he might do something. Arnold is probably going to be shy because slouching is when you are tired or sad and he might be sad about Penelope or Rowdy, or one of his family members or something might of happened.