The Challenges Faced When Cross-Culturing Sherman Alexie
ENGL-2030-020
Paper #2
30, October, 2013
The Challenges Faced when Cross-Culturing Sherman Alexie constructed a short fiction story related to the “telling stories” section in the Norton Eleventh edition. In his story, a main theme presents itself. The main theme presented in the story is that of general stereotyping. General stereotyping clearly identifies itself when William, the taxi rider, states “No, not jewel-on-the-forehead Indian” (Alexie 62). Constructing an essay related to the most obvious theme would defeat the purpose of experiencing literature differently. Every reader experiences a piece of literature differently. What a reader takes during or before reading a piece of literature directly relates to the culture they experienced growing up. Everybody is engrained with a unique thinking process. Every reader will perceive a piece of literature differently due to the unique engrained thinking process. A major aspect that causes each person to perceive things differently directly relates to the culture one experiences while growing up. The theme I perceived, the challenges of cross-culturing, provides another way of …show more content…
Culture is defined “the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group” (dictionary.reference.com). Age, social groups, and ethnic background all play influential roles throughout Sherman Alexie’s “Flight Patterns”. The title of the story, “Flight Patterns”, when broken down literally relates to the cross-culturing challenges. Flight patterns when described as paths plains travel during flights are all different. Just like every flight pattern is different, everyone has a different cultural background. When flight patterns are not well organized it causes difficulties, much like interacting amongst other people with different cultures causes
Paper #2
30, October, 2013
The Challenges Faced when Cross-Culturing Sherman Alexie constructed a short fiction story related to the “telling stories” section in the Norton Eleventh edition. In his story, a main theme presents itself. The main theme presented in the story is that of general stereotyping. General stereotyping clearly identifies itself when William, the taxi rider, states “No, not jewel-on-the-forehead Indian” (Alexie 62). Constructing an essay related to the most obvious theme would defeat the purpose of experiencing literature differently. Every reader experiences a piece of literature differently. What a reader takes during or before reading a piece of literature directly relates to the culture they experienced growing up. Everybody is engrained with a unique thinking process. Every reader will perceive a piece of literature differently due to the unique engrained thinking process. A major aspect that causes each person to perceive things differently directly relates to the culture one experiences while growing up. The theme I perceived, the challenges of cross-culturing, provides another way of …show more content…
Culture is defined “the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group” (dictionary.reference.com). Age, social groups, and ethnic background all play influential roles throughout Sherman Alexie’s “Flight Patterns”. The title of the story, “Flight Patterns”, when broken down literally relates to the cross-culturing challenges. Flight patterns when described as paths plains travel during flights are all different. Just like every flight pattern is different, everyone has a different cultural background. When flight patterns are not well organized it causes difficulties, much like interacting amongst other people with different cultures causes