Short Story Superman And Me By Sherman Alexie

In the short story "Superman and Me", the author, Sherman Alexie talks about how he came about helping Native American children become educated. He detail’s about his life growing up on a Native American reservation with a limited supply of education. He taught himself how to read, and through the abundant supply of books from his father he became an “oddity” for being a prodigy. The author repeats the phrase, “I was trying to save my life” but later on he changes it to, “I am trying to save our lives.” The point of “Superman and Me” is not to tell the story of how Alexie became a writer or how he learned read, it is about how he is trying to change the lives of Native American children. Ever since white settlers forced Native Americans onto