Summary Of What You Pawn I Will Redeem: Noon

urprise is that it is not surprising when I read “What You Pawn I Will Redeem: Noon” by Sherman Alexie (Perkins 31). “I grew up in Spokane, moved to Seattle,” (Perkins 31) is the author's life as well as the main character in the story. It did not surprise me that the main character and the author had similar paths in life. I questioned while reading, and still do, how much of the story is real. Mr. Alexie's experiences must have shown him many of the things that happened in the story in reality and/or to him personally. I was so touched by him, myself, through this story I felt a tear well up as I read the closing line “I was my grandmother, dancing” (Perkins 45). I think it hit me like the song by Luther Vandross- “Dance With My Father.” After all that our drunken, degenerate hero of the story had been through, relating his Indian heritage to the authors real life heritage, was not surprising, but full of wonder.
The story being in the state of Washington is cold and harsh by nature in its location, in winter. If I imagine a homeless person in Florida, I would not worry of death by exposure so much. This is probably not as true as it is in my head, but sleeping in freezing temperature is scarier for some reason. The main character in the story explained of a partner of his, “I later heard he had hitchhiked down to Portland, Oregon, and died of exposure in an alley behind the Hilton Hotel” (Perkins 38). I drove through these mountains on this route between Seattle and Portland and can imagine freezing to death if stuck in