Sherman Alexie is the author of “Superman and Me”. This is a story about Alexie teaching himself to read with a Superman comic book which also inspired him to become a writer. In this story‚ Alexie made a claim that “A smart Indian is a dangerous person‚ widely feared and ridiculed by Indians and non-Indians alike.” (Alexie 497). He found himself to be a dangerous person because of his experience of discrimination. Nonetheless‚ it is an unrealistic claim in that a “…smart Indian” (Alexie 497) or
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Indian Education In the short story “Indian Education” by Sherman Alexie‚ the narrator’s life parallels Alexie’s in many ways. The narrator of this story is a boy named Victor who lives on a reservation with his two parents. Like Victor‚ Alexie grew up on a reservation in the state of Washington. Both boys were teased and bullied by their fellow classmates and initially decided to go to school outside of their reservation for greater educational opportunities. “Indian Education” follows an Indian
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Do Not Go Gently into That Good Night The poem "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by poet Dylan Thomas is explaining a request of a father’s son to battle against death at war. The poet first begins by presenting readers with an example of the wise men that battle their unavoidable death‚ with knowing that they will be defeated. Good men also "rage against the dying of the light" (line 9) a suggestion that will mean the world to the father of the son. The good men fight against death in an
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Understanding Truth and Identity When my mother immigrated to Canada in 1992 she had clear sense of who she was‚ her culture and identity had a strong foundation that could not be shaken.As a child of an immgrant understanding who I was and where I belonged was diffcult and at times confunsing. In Sherman Alexie’s “War Dances”‚ the protagonist struggles to understand the national identity of First Nation peoples and his own cynicism of what he sees as a lack of authenticity in First Nation culture
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” is a villanelle style poem written by Dylan Thomas‚ and is the poem he is best known for. It was left untitled by the poet therefore the first line of the poem became the title. The speaker in the poem begins by telling the reader to “not go gentle into that good night” line 1 using night as a metaphor for death. The theme of death is repeated at the end of line 2 with “close of day” and in line 3 with “dying of the
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and common experiences. She Had Some Horses: The Education of a Poet was a very powerful story. It was a great example of wanting to stand out and trying to figure out why that was not a common thing in Sherman Alexies’ culture. I believe Sherman Alexie wrote this story to show us all how literature changed his life and his was of thinking. He always did have‚ from the beginning‚ curiosities. He was always curious as to why there were no Indian writers in the books he read. All of his questions
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Initially‚ Junior only sees a sliver of the total person who Mary is. He views Mary as a simplistic person who only possesses a few‚ basic traits. Junior writes in his diary that “After high school‚ my sister just froze. Didn’t go to college‚ didn’t get a job. Didn’t do anything. Kind of sad‚ I
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is going to get better. It’s not” (Dr.Seuss‚ The lorax). In The Fourth of July by Audre Lorde and The Joy of Reading and Writing : Superman and Me by Sherman Alexie‚ both protagonists are treated as outcasts and have their unique selves suppressed by society‚ but continue to question why their identities are being taken away. Sherman Alexie and Audre Lorde both undergo the merciless cruelty that is racism‚ and discover they must actively fight against it‚ which presents the opportunity for change
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with water in the brain” (Alexie‚1)‚ a condition for which surgery is required. As a result of the surgery‚ Junior had a large head‚ was forced to wear glasses‚ and gained a lisp. These attributes made a lot of Indians tease and beat up Junior. Junior would spend most of his time in his room to escape the bullies. Because of this Junior became skilled at drawing and writing. The effect of poverty within the Indian reservation was detrimental to the Indian’s lifestyles. Alexie describes the
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In the text “Green World” by Sherman Alexie‚ windmills were built outside of a small town on a Native American reservation. The windmills were responsible for killing birds and the tribe hired a man to go out to the twelve windmills and pick up the mangled bodies of the birds. At first‚ the man could not complete his job without being physically sick at the sight of the disfigured bodies‚ but as the job progresses‚ the man becomes desensitized to the situation. One day‚ an elderly Native American
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