Fritz Perls once said “I am not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations‚ nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.” In the short story The Search Engine‚ by Sherman Alexie‚ the Native American culture is trying to live up to the expectations of the white world. The main character Corliss‚ a Spokane Indian‚ is expected to do well in college so she can move back to the reservation to help her tribe. There is also a cultural difference between our world and that of the Spokane
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Hamed Adeyemi Mrs. Maqubela 05/4 The Indian Killer as a Religious Symbol The Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie is a novel about the violence and chaos caused by the destruction of the Native American identity. In the book‚ Native Americans strive to figure out who they are while violence continues to grow around them. Native Americans are angry with white people because they are tired of being oppressed. Whites are angry with Native Americans because they no longer want them. And in this ferocious
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The book‚ “Ten Little Indians”‚ by author Sherman Alexie‚ is a collection of fictional short stories that are all fascinating and enthralling. All the characters in this book are full of depth‚ but there are two that stand out to me. One of those characters is William from the story‚ “Flight Patterns”‚ and the other is the character David from the story‚ “Do You Know Where I Am”. I find both these characters as very 3-dimensional and interesting. They both have their good and bad traits‚ they both
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some work that needed to have meaning that might help people to see to what happen from their outside home or seeing someone pain or emotion. There are one artists that can turn art into vanity issues of the modern world to women is Cindy Sherman. Cindy Sherman‚ by turning her camera to herself‚ she can build name and become the most respected photographer in the late twentieth century. Knowing why she the most respected photographer in the late twentieth century because she not only uses self-portraits
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A Foolish‚ Homeless Con-Artist’s Quest to Ease Loneliness as Displayed in Sherman Alexie’s “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” In Sherman Alexie’s “What You Pawn I Will Redeem‚” the protagonist exemplifies how to be a professional homeless con artist‚ and reveals how to use an actual stolen family artifact to prey on the human capacity for compassion. It’s a story in which our protagonist with the same first and last name‚ Jackson Jackson‚ stumbles across a garb made by his grandmother in a local
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good aspects. Being the “only one” in this story is not bad‚ it’s the others who make fun of Junior being the “only one” that makes it embarrassing for him. Being the “only one” makes Junior unique and defines who he is as a person. This is what Sherman Alexie means when he talks about Junior being the “Only
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him up; he was looked down on‚ and also treated as an outsider because of this. Alexie didn’t care though because he knew that there was something other than the reservation in his future‚ and that the world was much bigger than the reservation that he lived on‚ and there was more to be gotten on the outside. He wasn’t going to let the other Indians keep him down‚ and stop him from learning. It’s awesome that when Alexie is an adult he goes back to reservations to help the children‚ because when he
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Throughout the article feature “This Is What It Means To Say Phoenix‚ Arizona.”by Shermin Alexie‚ in the beginning of the article it expounds that Victor‚ the main character’s father has died of a heart attack.Victor hasn’t seen his father in a few years and is trying to find a way to get to Phoenix‚ arizona. He calls Tribal Council but declines the funds offered. Thomas Build-the-Fire a former friend of Victor is acknowledged as an Indian‚ repetitive storyteller. Thomas stands out in the narrative
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normal after learned few people who have studied in a much more difficult environment than myself and have become successful writers. By the 1960s‚ Alexie was living with his family on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Even his family were poor‚ Alexie’s father always read and inspired to Alexie to read. There was a lot of racial discrimination‚ Alexie was expected to fail and remain uneducated. He writes‚ “A smart Indian is a dangerous person‚ widely feared and ridiculed by Indians and non-Indians
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"Rowdy Sings the Blues‚" (48-53) Rowdy yells‚ “Don’t touch me‚ you retarded fag!" at Arnold. The language is offensive. It’s hurtful‚ ignorant‚ and crude‚ but it’s not uncommon to hear young boys talk that way. Why does Rowdy use that language? In Sherman Alexie’s novel‚ The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian‚ Arnold’s best friend Rowdy calls him a “retarded fag” for transferring at the start of their freshman year of high school. Due to his background as a child‚ Rowdy uses cruel language
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