Summary of the Joy of Reading, Writing; Superman and Me

Sherman Alexie was born in a poor family. One of his parents usually managed to find some minimum-wage job to support he and his brothers and sisters.
Even though he comes from a poor family, his father loved reading and his rooms were always piled with books. The author’s love of book was influenced by his father.
As he began to read he observed the structure of the article: “paragraph”, he found the logic behind the paragraph and apply his understanding to his everyday life.
At the same time the author began to see the world in paragraph. When he read the superman comic book, he came up a three-dimensional picture after he read through a paragraph. Furthermore he looked at the narrative above the picture and pretended to say the words as superman would say in this way he learned to read.
He realized his achievement in reading is “prodigy” within his age, but he also realized that in other people’s eye his Indian background made his talent an “oddity”.
As Indian children, he was expected to fail in the non-Indian World. Also, it is abnormal for Indians to be succeeded in non-Indian world, so those who failed were welcomed by other Indians and appropriately pitied by non-Indian.
However, Alexie refused to fail. He read any time any place. He loved reading and worked hard because he was trying to save his life.
Later he became a writer and teacher. However he questions why in reservation schools they doesn’t provide Indian students with education about writing poetry, short story, or novels. He realized in majority’s opinion Indian’s are not deserved to write.
In the class some student are curious about the knowledge like the author who want to save their lives, but others just give up. Alexie is trying to save them from ignorance.