Grief is something everyone in the reservation has dealt with at least twice before the time they can drive. They grieve when they have lost another member of their family. They lose most members of their family due to alcohol. The people are so used to dealing with grief that it seems to show way differently with them than it does with people not as accustomed to death.
To these people grief is something else, “Grief is when you feel so helpless and stupid that you think nothing will ever be right again, and your macaroni and cheese tastes like sawdust, and you can't even jerk off because it seems like too much trouble.”-Sherman Alexie, Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian. Arnold feels that he has to experience so much grief in his life and it makes him feel completely helpless. Nothing feels the same to him when he is grieving and it is something he has to deal with multiple times during the book. Grief is a problem Alexie shows has much precedence in the Spokane reservation.
To these people grief is something else, “Grief is when you feel so helpless and stupid that you think nothing will ever be right again, and your macaroni and cheese tastes like sawdust, and you can't even jerk off because it seems like too much trouble.”-Sherman Alexie, Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian. Arnold feels that he has to experience so much grief in his life and it makes him feel completely helpless. Nothing feels the same to him when he is grieving and it is something he has to deal with multiple times during the book. Grief is a problem Alexie shows has much precedence in the Spokane reservation.
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