The Rez

          In "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian", we can see the clear separation between the type of people in the neighborhood. In the book the separation is mostly based on race. Junior lives in an reservation where other Indians live as well, you rarely see white folk going through the reservation. Junior rarely leaves the reservation because he fears the new things that he might encounter outside the reservation. Junior also notices a number of separations, separations in opportunity and looks. Junior has is different from other the other Indians, he has some physical problems that separates him from the other children but he is not alone in his struggles. He also notices that white folk have better opportunities that colored folk since white folk attend better schools than the Indians. Junior finally realizes that in order break this separation he has to do something that no other Indian has done, leave the Rez forever and live amongst the white folk. He does this by making the decision of attending Reardan High School, a school that is outside the Rez and is mostly populated by white children.
          In my neighborhood there is kind of a separation but it is not as clear, there are two separation. These separations deal with both wealth and race. The first separation is the separation of race between white people and other races. The separation is made by Peterson Street, one side is mostly white people and one side is a majority of many various races. The other separation is a separation of  the wealthy and the middle class. In one area of the neighborhood there is are a few streets that are filled with big houses almost mansion like. In the other side there are regular houses that are owned by the middle class. These separations may not be as defined but they are there and they exist.