Superman: Short Story and Julia Thompson
Superman and Me.
By: Sherman Alexie Essay by: Julia Thompson
"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade." In the short story Superman and me, by Sherman Alexie it shows us how this metaphor is used without it even being said. Alexie unlike most Indian kids in 1998 had a passion to read. He got this urge to read from his father, someone that went out of his way to buy any novel, magazine, or book that he could get his grip on. Reading material was stacked throughout the house, Alexie would read every second and when he wasn't he began seeing life in paragraphs. Unfortunately he had his struggles just because he was an Indian boy. People would think less of the person he was, less of the knowledge in which he with held. Yet Alexie was not ashamed to show the others how smart he was, he would not hold back and pretend not to know anything. Proud, smart, and arrogant he proved there was a positive change in the Indian community.
Alexie was given many opportunities yet what he did with them was unexpected. "Most lived up to those expectations inside the classrooms but subverted them on the outside" As Indians; others saw little in them soon they began to feel the same way about their selves. Acting uneducated as if no knowledge was ever known in front of an non-Indian teacher. What people thought was soon becoming a reality. "We were expected to fail in the non-Indian world." Yet Alexie was raised reading books, every kind imaginable. He thought to fail never phased him, he aimed toward success. Really it was him verses the world; people wanted him to be stupid. Except every chance he got, he took to prove them wrong. "I was trying to save my life." Being separated by ethnicity made it hard to learn. Taking things into his own hands, he taught himself how to read, how to understand the meaning of words. If he didn't nobody else would. He showed that if one Indian could do it, why not others as well. As a Result it gave the opportunities to make a difference in the
By: Sherman Alexie Essay by: Julia Thompson
"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade." In the short story Superman and me, by Sherman Alexie it shows us how this metaphor is used without it even being said. Alexie unlike most Indian kids in 1998 had a passion to read. He got this urge to read from his father, someone that went out of his way to buy any novel, magazine, or book that he could get his grip on. Reading material was stacked throughout the house, Alexie would read every second and when he wasn't he began seeing life in paragraphs. Unfortunately he had his struggles just because he was an Indian boy. People would think less of the person he was, less of the knowledge in which he with held. Yet Alexie was not ashamed to show the others how smart he was, he would not hold back and pretend not to know anything. Proud, smart, and arrogant he proved there was a positive change in the Indian community.
Alexie was given many opportunities yet what he did with them was unexpected. "Most lived up to those expectations inside the classrooms but subverted them on the outside" As Indians; others saw little in them soon they began to feel the same way about their selves. Acting uneducated as if no knowledge was ever known in front of an non-Indian teacher. What people thought was soon becoming a reality. "We were expected to fail in the non-Indian world." Yet Alexie was raised reading books, every kind imaginable. He thought to fail never phased him, he aimed toward success. Really it was him verses the world; people wanted him to be stupid. Except every chance he got, he took to prove them wrong. "I was trying to save my life." Being separated by ethnicity made it hard to learn. Taking things into his own hands, he taught himself how to read, how to understand the meaning of words. If he didn't nobody else would. He showed that if one Indian could do it, why not others as well. As a Result it gave the opportunities to make a difference in the