When asked to come up with an artistic response about the Sherman Alexie novel, I wasn't sure what to do......I am not an artistic person at all. I once drew a chicken at work and everyone thought it looked like a deformed horse! Gladly, I joined a group of artistic people and we decided to make an altered book. An altered book is when you take a book and alter its appearance to what you thought of the book. My group met over the weekend and agreed to cut out the pictures in the book and make some sort of a time line. The cover has an Indian Thunderbird that one of my team mates drew, representing Arnold being an Indian. the first section had the important characters in the novel and ended with Arnold hitting Mr.P then the picture of "hope or rez".
The second section had all the hard parts in Arnold life, we used pictures about him being poor, not having a ride to school, and his family's death.
Then the third section has the good ending of the book. Arnold reunites with rowdy, his report card, and a picture of a bird that Arnold drew that symbolizes long flight.....that symbolizes the long road ahead for Arnold after High School.
The back cover has been stripped with red, white, and blue to symbolize Arnold's acceptance by America.
Also on the seem, we put a picture of Arnold that has him split between his Indian and white version of him. This was done so that if you look at the full cover of the book, you can see the transformation from a hated Indian to an Indian that is accepted by whites.
Gladly, the book turned out a great success and every person on my team did an excellent job.
The second section had all the hard parts in Arnold life, we used pictures about him being poor, not having a ride to school, and his family's death.
Then the third section has the good ending of the book. Arnold reunites with rowdy, his report card, and a picture of a bird that Arnold drew that symbolizes long flight.....that symbolizes the long road ahead for Arnold after High School.
The back cover has been stripped with red, white, and blue to symbolize Arnold's acceptance by America.
Also on the seem, we put a picture of Arnold that has him split between his Indian and white version of him. This was done so that if you look at the full cover of the book, you can see the transformation from a hated Indian to an Indian that is accepted by whites.
Gladly, the book turned out a great success and every person on my team did an excellent job.
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