Activity In this activity, you'll compare a theme from "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" and "Twelve Years a Slave. Keep in mind how literary devices such as setting, characterization, and plot are used to develop a theme when you're analyzing text.

Part A
Both texts examine the theme that social acceptance threatens one's self-identity. What does the theme reveal about both characters? Please refer to the narrator in 'The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" as Junior and to the narrator in "Twelve Years a Slave" as Nprthrup.​