In this illustration from Sherman Alexie's novel "The Absolutely True Diaries of a Part Time Indian" we can see not only how the the protagonist views the differences in white and Native American cultures, but how he also views his own internal struggle between his meek persona on the reservation and the new more confident self at Reardon. The message here is not only that Junior feels white people are not only generally more well off than Native Americans financially but are set up better for success from birth. From the white kid's "ergonomic backpack" to his "bright future" we are meant to see the contrast with Juniors garbage bag backpack and "vanishing past" respectively. I picked this particular image for the fact that it really symbolizes Junior's struggle to try to fit in to multiple cultures while also keeping his individuality intact, a problem that I believe we all face on some level over the course of our lives.
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