Abstract
The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007) deserves to be regarded as an autobiographical story of
Sherman Alexie, a Coeur d′Alene/Spokane Native American songwriter, filmmaker, comedian and writer of prose and poetry. Its theme is to escape from the reservations that were constructed to eliminate Native American and still serve that nefarious influence. The protagonist, Arnold Spirit, Jr., the fourteen-year-old Spokane Indian, decides to leave the hopeless reservation and go to the high school in the white town of Reardan in search of something hopeful. In this novel, the evocation of empathy, love and forgiveness contributes to Arnold in establishing his identity beyond the ethnicity, this must be the result of his "expanded world-view" by crossing the borders. The aim of this paper is to examine how the protagonist establishes his own "multi-tribal" identity by leaving reservations.
