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    One of the two stories I chose was “What You Pawn I Will Redeem”. In this story‚ there are various themes illustrated but I will only talk about homelessness and heritage. Sherman Alexie shows how Native Americans have been marginalized to the lowest form of everyday life in America. They exist below the poverty line‚ homeless and without the means to live comfortably. It’s an unromantic‚ un-idealistic place‚ where the friends that Jackson has abandon him‚ and as a result of this he finds comfort

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    will sometimes is created by a vital purpose‚ like saving one’s own life. Sherman Alexie writes about how tough learning to read is because he is a Native American in “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and me”. He tried to use knowledge to keep himself from seeing as an “idiot” in others’ mind. He said‚ “I love those books‚ but I also knew that love had only one purpose. I was trying to save my life” (Alexie 18). He is a Native American which means his skills of reading‚ learning

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    Over the course of a novel‚ it is inevitable that characters will encounter battles‚ and more often than not will have to take them on face to face. The battle is either literal‚ and involves two sides fighting against each other‚ or figurative in which two sides aren’t physically fighting‚ but rather in competition for something intangible‚ and in a sense is metaphorical. These battles are often the main conflicts in the story or for characters in the story‚ that stem from the greed of one group

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    In‚ The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie‚ Junior’s life has always been black and white‚ in the sense that there is a white world and his world‚ but he has never gotten a chance to explore the in-between or grey: the mix of the white world and his‚ and he is not expected to. The Spokane Tribe was reluctant to associate with the white people on the outside of the reservation because white people were the main party who had forced seclusion upon them. Going to a white school

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    n “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” by Sherman Alexie‚ the main character is a homeless Native American Indian who came to Seattle to go to college and quit after two semesters.  Alexie creates a world where the protagonist seems to find help from every turn that he makes. Setting  The setting is the 1990’s in Seattle. Jackson Jackson is a Spokane Indian. According to Jackson Squared‚ his "people have lived within a one-hundred-mile radius of Spokane‚ Washington‚ for   ten thousand years." Several

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    Interpretation I believe that Alexie used many tools in order to grab his audience and keep them captured throughout his story. Alexie used his personal experience to guide up through the story and capture the audience with his feelings and emotions throughout his life. He showed how he went from and Indian boy who could not read at all‚ to a man who could write and many looked up to. Alexie showed how he

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    Compare & Contrast of Smoke Signals and This is what it means to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona The stories of Smoke Signals and “This is What it Means to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona” are built around the same narrative with a few dissimilarities here and there. Smoke Signals is the film version based from the short story “This is What it Means to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona.” Throughout the duration of the film there are recognizably a few alterations as compared with the short story; however‚ there are still a lot

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    In The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me‚ Sherman Alexie shares with his audience his story of when he learned to read at a young age through a Superman comic book. Through stories and memories of his childhood‚ he explains how Indian children on reservations were expected not to try in school and fail in the non-Indian world. In order to successfully portray his ideas‚ Alexie uses many rhetorical techniques and ideas. By using these techniques the audience is forced to look more into the

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    Hala Darayad ENG 212 Response paper #3 27 August 2016 “This is What it Mean to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona” The short story of‚ “This is What it Mean to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona” by Sherman Alexie is about a young man named Victor dealing with the tribulations of his father passing away and traveling to his father’s town to retrieve his old things‚ which includes his father’s pickup truck.‚ Victors old friend Thomas‚ whom he fought with in the past travels along with him. Victor had a rough relationship with

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    This book‚ "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie‚ is about a boy called Arnold Spirit aka Junior. He is a Native American that lives in an Indian Reservation. He isn’t really satisfied with his life‚ since he’s pretty poor‚ but he gets along. He doesn’t really accept himself‚ since he has multiple medical problems‚ and he has been beaten up since he was little. When he starts to gain more friends in this new (American) school‚ he starts to like and accept himself more

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