Summary Of There Is More Than One Way To Starve

Alexie uses the phrase "There is more than one way to starve" in his essay to describe the issues faced within the Indian Reservation, and outside of it. At the beginning of the 8th grade portion, he notices girls at his farm town "white" school starving themselves intentionally by anorexia and bulimia. The purpose of starving themselves was to try and maintain a skinny appearance. He stated "I sat back and watch them grow skinny from self-pity." Alexie then mentions that back on the reservation his mother had to stand in a long to get food, and that even though they were happy to have food, dogs wouldn't even eat the quality of food they were receiving. He states "we ate it day after day and grew skinny from self- pity." In line 51 when he