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    Sherman Alexie Mood

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    Setting the mood for a tragic event is important to evoke emotion among the reader of a book. That is exactly what Sherman Alexie did in this excerpt in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian‚ where a tragic event has occurred. Alexie uses tone‚ syntax‚ and structure to develop the mood if the passage. Alexie sets the mood of the excerpt through his use of tone. For instance‚ he wrote‚ “At the hospital‚ my mother wept and wailed.” Usage of the words “wept” and “wailed” establish a distressful

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    Indian Education Reading Responses 1. The overarching tone of this piece is shamefully miserable. Sherman Alexie conveys this by using negative diction‚ for example; Alexie begins his first grade excerpt by saying‚ “My hair was short and the U.S. Government glasses were horn-rimmed‚ ugly…” The author uses the word ‘ugly’ to indicate young Alexie lacks in self confidence and is ashamed of his appearance. Alexie continues on saying‚ “… in school the other Indian boys chased me from one corner

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    Sherman Alexie Superman

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    pictures. The author of The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me‚ Sherman Alexie‚ may arguably agree with my statement. Mr. Alexie presents a connection of literary understanding with visual images and imaginative thought. As an author‚ he now lies opposite of the language barrier that once obstructed him. And for Alexie‚ life on the other side of the barrier is truly different. By working past his barrier‚ Alexie could read “books in the car”‚ “bits and pieces” of books in the bookstores

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    Flight by Sherman Alexie

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    In Flight‚ Sherman Alexie explores the terrible struggles of growing up without the love and care of a guardian. Zits is the main character who tragically loses both his mother and father. He is placed in foster care although he can’t seem to stay out of jail. Throughout Flight‚ Zits grows from being a troubled youth to a young man ready to change his life because of his imaginary experiences. Zits has a hard time growing up. This makes him confrontational and destroys his pride. One aspect of his

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    Sherman Alexie Judgement

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    selfish to. People judge them as if they were covers to a book yet never opened the pages to see the pain and sorrow in their life’s. Sherman Alexie proved this in the book Flight‚ that being thus trained to pass judgement on someone you don’t know leads to a vicious

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    Sherman Alexie According my researching from Encyclopaedia Britannica Online‚ Academic Search Complete‚ and Superman and Me in class‚ I found out biographical information on Sherman Alexie. The reason I searched about Sherman Alexie because I wanted to know about how he had been through his life and become a successful American poet. He also writes essays and novels. In childhood‚ Sherman Alexie was born October 7‚ 1966 on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Washington. He lived where surrounded

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    several of his novels is Sherman Alexie. He takes many of the events or situations he experienced throughout his life and puts them into the lives of the characters in these books. Sherman Alexie illustrates several of the obstacles that he faced in his life through the difficulties his characters encounter‚ particularly in his book The Absolutely True Diary of

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    Sherman Alexie Save Lives

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    Alexie Saves Lives Sherman Alexie’s essay “Superman and Me” is about how Alexie changed his life‚ and the lives of others‚ by learning to read. “Sherman Alexie‚ a Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Indian‚ grew up on a reservation surrounded by poverty‚ alcoholism‚ and disease. . .” (About Sherman Alexie)‚ though his family was poor‚ his father loved to read; and Alexie adopted that love of reading at an early age. Alexie soon started to see the world around him like paragraphs. He would read anything and everything

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    Face By Sherman Alexie

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    Sherman Alexie‚ in his poem “Face‚” explains that white people took over the land‚ created customs and introduced their customs to those on the reservations. He develops this idea in the first stanza by using a metaphor to compare both cultures have in common “This sonnet‚ like my reservation‚ keeps/ Its secrets hidden behind boundaries/ That are simple and legal at first read”; in the second stanza‚ he develops an image of how the speaker feels on adopting the “white masters culture” along with

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    In Sherman Alexie’s essay‚ Superman and Me‚ he uses repetition and extended metaphors to transition from a personal to social level as he illustrates his poor childhood‚ and how reading saves his and others lives. The essay is introduced with the Superman comic books that taught Alexie how to read. He uses the repetition of “I cannot recall” to explain that he does not recall the exact details of what he read but the idea of reading. He then contrasts this by stating what he can remember – being

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