Junior's Diary

Author’s note: I am creating a journal entry for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian in the point of view of Junior, the main character and what happened to his life after 10 years.

Dear Diary,

Now when I look back at my time at Rearden, I am glad that I transferred. I mean, at first it was the worst time of my life when Rowdy just severed our friendship, but I met my new wife Penelope at Rearden, and I met two other guys that I became friends with, Gordy and Roger. At first I was afraid of Roger because he was huge, but after the first few weeks he and I really got along, especially when I joined the basketball team. Yeah, I missed Rowdy and the whole rez hated me but after the death of both my grandma and my sister, everyone knew to just back off because whenever someone loses a loved one it is extremely hard on them. Even Rowdy stopped bullying me and by summer it was like we were friends again.

A lot of things happened to me that year, some bad, some good, but most all of it welcomed because it made me who I am today. Every single person I met, every single thing I did made me who I am today, the captain of the Montana Hydras, along with my co-captain Roger and manager Gordy. We started our team with the basketball players from both Rearden and Wellpinit, creating the first Indian-White team. Even though we started as a tiny team we quickly took off in our first season with a win-loss count of 72-10 with a starting streak of 20-0, and after a few seasons like that we got sponsored by a huge amount of sports companies.  But either in season or out, I am now always happy.

                           

With the help and support of my friends and family I was able to become a great cartoonist and writer, I even got a spot as a newspaper cartoonist.  I wrote the best book I have ever attempted, and the one writing accomplishment I am the most proud of are my journal entries from that year at Rearden. I have always had my journal so I decided to put together all my entries from that one year and I made it into a bestseller.  I guess you can say that everything I am is reflected in and grown from that writing.  That one year of my life is now the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.