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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
Posted by thecolou on 18 januari 2015 in Uncategorized | ∞
On Mondays we are working with the other classes, but on Fridays we will be on our own. We will be reading The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian. The picture is from the book and made by Ellen Forney.
On page 16 there is a quote:
” I am zero on the rez. And if you subtract zero from zero, you still have zero.”
What do you think Arnold would like to tell us?
Write a few sentences as a blog comment.
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I think Arnold wants to tell us that he’s invisible among the others in the rez. He doesn’t mean anything to the other students, he is just there to get picked on. He wants us to start think about other people, because there’s so many human beings in the world that feel left out and who are being bullied, harassed and assaulted.
On the rez*
I think he means that when you are a ”nobody” nothing change if you don’t do anything.
I think he’s telling us that he is lonely and no one cares about him.
I think that he means that he has reached the bottom. He can’t be more than a zero, because a zero is the worst you can be.
That’s a pretty good way to put it.
I think he means that he’s not worth anything because he’s not like the other people in the rez
I am zero on the rez. And if you subtract zero from zero, you still have zero. ~
I think he means that there is nothing left that could make him feel less worth being, so they should all stop trying.
Amen (?)
He means that he is a nobody among nobodies. If he were to dissapear no one would notice it. Everyone outside of the rez still sees the people inside the rez as nobodies and if one nobody dissapears, it won’t be noticed, because the people will still be nobodies.
If think he means that he is always going to be a loser no matter what he does, that a loser is always going to be a loser
I don’t know what he ment, it was very confusing if you ask me.
But I think he ment that he is no-one, it’s hard to discribe.
I think he means that everybody outside the rez sees everybody inside the rez as nobodies or zeros, as he puts it. And even if he tries, everybody will still see him as a nobody. So he thinks that there isn’t something he can do about it.
I think he means that he is a zero on the rez, casue when he say if you subtract zero from zero you still have zero, just because of that i think he means that he is a zero everywhere. Like he is no one, wherever he is.
I think that he means that if he does something different, no one should care because he is already a ”zero”.
Of course I can not know for sure.
But I would say that he feels like a nobody.
And if you would add or subtract a nobody there still only would exist a nobody. Nothing more nothing less.
Nerver has anybody ever cared,so why would they now?
That is what I believe.
I think he means that he is a zero and nobody really cares about him