Moore Junior English 25 Sept. 2014 The Native American Experience Life on the Spokane Indian Reservation is filled with shattered dreams and lost Indian souls drowning the sorrows of their people in alcohol. Reservation Blues‚ a novel by Sherman Alexie‚ depicts the story of an unlikely group of Indians coming together to chase their dreams with the help of a magic guitar‚ Big Mom‚ and their Indian blood as they struggle with the realities of being Indian in a white world. The protagonist Thomas
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what most of the people think when they say “Indian”. But Sherman Alexie ‚in his volume “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” and then the movie Smoke Signals based on one story from this volume- Thus Is What it Means to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona- try to present the image of the real Indian in the real life and work against this “formerly-held stereotypes to form a new‚ uniquely Spokane identity” all these in a humorous‚
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Trauma Grief can be described as a collection of sorrow‚ misery and pain‚ which is usually followed by trauma. Grief and trauma are intensely expressed in the book‚ The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie. The main Character‚ Arnold Spirit Junior experiences grief when his grandmother passes away due to a car incident. Following by the death of Eugene‚ a close family friend‚ and the tragedy of Mary‚ Junior and his parents are severely traumatized
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Identity shows a person’s individuality. A person’s individuality can include how they dress‚ their beliefs‚ their personality traits‚ the way they speak‚ their culture‚ their education‚ etc. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie and in my own life‚ it is evident that when exploring identity‚ a character must leave and return to his/her roots before truly understanding him/herself. Arnold finds out who he is by leaving and later coming back to Rowdy. In the last scene
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existence; therefore‚ the aspect of existence is something in particular‚ with specific characteristics. Finding who we truly are can aid in loving‚ identifying‚ and accepting ourselves. Notary short stories‚ “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” by Sherman Alexie‚ “Hollow” by Breece D’J Pancake‚ and “Until Gwen” by Dennis Lehane are great exemplifications of how the struggle with identity hurt or harm the develop of an individual’s character. “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” is a story of a man who struggles
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a young-adult novel written by Sherman Alexie. The novel itself is on the list of books banned from some schools and public libraries. A few reasons for the ban include profane language‚ sexual content‚ and alcohol use. The novel chronicles the coming of age experience of a teenage boy named Junior. He lives on an Indian reservation where life is less than ideal. Junior’s father is an alcoholic and his family lives in poverty. His mother works as
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Survival=Anger X Imagination. Imagination is the only weapon on the reservation. --Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Key to Survival Sherman Alexie ’s novel The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven depicts how reservation Indian ’s survive their hardships that mainstream society has put on them‚ with the use of emotion and imagination. Survival for Alexie ’s Indians is‚ "not to slow dance with [their] skeletons (21)." The reservation skeletons are the anger of the
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Punishment Punishment‚ Witness‚ and dehumanization are common in the world today illustrated in poems such as‚ “Punishment” by Seamus Heaney and “Capital Punishment” by Sherman Alexie. The poems give the world a different perspectives based on the authors viewpoint‚ yet both authors seem to favor punishment. Therefore everyone in their life deserves to be punished based on the authors work or even a witness for one reason or another to speak for something they have done or witness. These authors
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In Se Habla Espanol by Tanya Barrientos presents a memoir of a women who was born in Guatemalan and was brought to United States at the age of three. She was having difficulty on identifying herself in her native culture. In Superman and Me by Sherman Alexie presents a literacy narrative of a men who learned how to read in a very young age despite having very limited resources on the Native American Reservation where he grew up. These authors described how Americans were not culturally tolerant‚ when
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often wonder how the author was able to be so detailed and have so much knowledge and background on specific events. Here we will learn about how one’s life events can turn into imaginative stories. Sherman Alexie was born in 1966 on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit‚ Washington (Sherman Alexie). Considerable amounts of his writing draw from his experiences as a Native American growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation . As a Native American‚ one Alexie’s main concerns are presenting his
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