Superman And Me By Sherman Alexie
The?Bronze?.. Minority
Nevaeh Sok Pre-Pharmacy, South College ENG1201: English Composition Dr. Amy Sloan October 15th, 2024.
The?Bronze?. Minority short story?Superman and Me? by Sherman Alexie (1997) revisits his childhood memory of learning to read as a young Native American on a reservation and the stereotypes he encountered. Sherman Alexie was stereotyped from both sides of the coin. From the westerners point of view, Native Americans were expected to be?stupid? and fail in society. It is also viewed as odd by both the westerners and Natives for being intelligent. Alexie (1997) shares that outside of school, the Natives are able to remember various powwoww songs and tell complicated stories, a symbol of their intelligence, despite being …show more content…
She recounted days of fearing for her life under the Communist regime, the Khmer Rouge, under Pol Pot?s rule. A regime where a perfect world included abolishing all civil rights, religion, foreigners and foreign imports, and formal education to create one equal society (?Cambodian?, 2022). To enforce their theology, Pol Pot?s regime killed between 1.6 - 3 million of its people through starvation, hard labor, and executions (?Cambodian?, 2022). Like hundreds of thousands of her brothers and sisters from the mainland, she finally escaped to the United States after Congress passed the Refugee Act of 1980 which granted asylum to the large influx of refugees and created the Office of Refugee Resettlement to oversee their integration into communities (?Refugee?, 2023). Despite escaping war, she often recounts the difficulties she faced not knowing English and trying to get anywhere, trying to find consistent work, trying to understand these foreign government rules and processes on her own. With no one to teach me how to survive in society due to themselves also learning how to alongside me, my educational journey proved to be a difficult and laborious one. In elementary, I lacked the self confidence the other kids were instilled with from their
Nevaeh Sok Pre-Pharmacy, South College ENG1201: English Composition Dr. Amy Sloan October 15th, 2024.
The?Bronze?. Minority short story?Superman and Me? by Sherman Alexie (1997) revisits his childhood memory of learning to read as a young Native American on a reservation and the stereotypes he encountered. Sherman Alexie was stereotyped from both sides of the coin. From the westerners point of view, Native Americans were expected to be?stupid? and fail in society. It is also viewed as odd by both the westerners and Natives for being intelligent. Alexie (1997) shares that outside of school, the Natives are able to remember various powwoww songs and tell complicated stories, a symbol of their intelligence, despite being …show more content…
She recounted days of fearing for her life under the Communist regime, the Khmer Rouge, under Pol Pot?s rule. A regime where a perfect world included abolishing all civil rights, religion, foreigners and foreign imports, and formal education to create one equal society (?Cambodian?, 2022). To enforce their theology, Pol Pot?s regime killed between 1.6 - 3 million of its people through starvation, hard labor, and executions (?Cambodian?, 2022). Like hundreds of thousands of her brothers and sisters from the mainland, she finally escaped to the United States after Congress passed the Refugee Act of 1980 which granted asylum to the large influx of refugees and created the Office of Refugee Resettlement to oversee their integration into communities (?Refugee?, 2023). Despite escaping war, she often recounts the difficulties she faced not knowing English and trying to get anywhere, trying to find consistent work, trying to understand these foreign government rules and processes on her own. With no one to teach me how to survive in society due to themselves also learning how to alongside me, my educational journey proved to be a difficult and laborious one. In elementary, I lacked the self confidence the other kids were instilled with from their