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Pain in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

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Pain is a way of life. All people experience it at some points regardless of how they define it. Falling from a bicycle, touching boiling water with a bare hand or spreading salt on cuts may bring a major sensation of pain to the body. People explained different kinds of meaning when they were being asked about what pain is. Pain is always subjective as it can gives different meanings to people, physically and emotionally. Emotionally in pain is actually a mental suffering from something psychological. In my own words, it is describes as ‘how much you hurt as a human being’. Some people in inner pain will feel like in mental misery. Nonetheless, it is not normal if people did not experience pain. Mental suffering can be caused by a lot of things such as facing deaths, breaking a relationship and much more. Based on Sherman Alexie’s book "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian," we can take a lot of examples. Junior, the main character has faced a lot of deaths. First, his kind and lovable grandmother died from a car accident, then followed by Eugene, his dad’s best friend who always good to him. Lastly, his beloved sister also died in a fire. All of the deaths that happened were greatly influenced by alcohol. He was greatly in pain to the point he felt that it was all his fault. He thought that all of the deaths were the punishment to him for leaving the tribe. From my personal experience, I also experienced pain when it comes to deaths, but the very first death gave a deeper scar than the others. Once, I had a very lovely Maine Coon breed cat named Koyang. She was a brilliant cat. She knew how to operate the television remote to change channels and she also could push the button on the phone which will call my mom. I was happy to be with her until one day, she died in a car accident in front of my eyes. That time she was dying when I approached her. Her eyes popped out from her sockets and her internal organs splatter

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