districts. This increases property value and drives out lower-class families.This causes economic problems because wealthy white people run lower-class families out‚ benefitting from the property value increase. Racial inequality occurs as a result. Sherman Alexie’s “Gentrification” uses isolation‚ emotional appeal and guilt to express the wrongfulness of gentrification. To begin‚ the author uses isolation to prove the wrongfulness of gentrification. The author isolates the white homeowner‚ for example
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A character study of Junior. Arnold Spirit Junior – is a main character of the story of Sherman Alexie The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. The character‚ which the author introduces us to‚ is most probably built up on his true experiences of growing up on the Spokane Indian reservation in Wellpinit. Junior is a fourteen- year old teenager‚ who is a naturally born artist‚ a talented‚ hysterically funny and open- minded‚ smart‚ brave young man‚ yet super unsecured. Having been born with
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I wanted to ask you again. Since it has been almost six years since I have set foot in your classroom‚ I need to ask: “what is good writing?”. I mostly wanted to talk to you about Sherman Alexie’s essay Indian Education‚ and why I believe that this story is good writing. And how Alexie ’s demonstrates content and form perfectly by creating a story that any English teacher would and should have given willingly an “A” to. First off‚ Indian Education pushes the boundaries of what constitutes what
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Based on the story‚ it is likely for many readers to comply that Junior is viewed as a traitor with his culture‚ race‚ and family. The idea of the agreement is accompanied by the textual evidence extracted in the story. For instance‚ junior is portrayed as a teenager boy who emanates from the Indian s race. Therefore‚ logic suggests that a person must be loyal and patriotic to his/her race‚ unlike Junior. Instead of being grateful for being an Indian‚ he finds a way of running away from the Spokane
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Sherman Alexie’s composition of short stories‚ called The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven‚ clearly describes aspects of Indian culture that many people wouldn’t already know. The stories are informative‚ descriptive and interesting. Disappointment is a depressing frustrating and repeated theme throughout almost every one of Sherman Alexie’s short stories. One of the very first introductions of disappointment to the reader is when the father of one of the main characters‚ Victor‚ leaves
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INTRODUCTION The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian‚ is a novel written by Sherman Alexie and it is for young adults. The illustrator of the novel is Ellen Forney and the novel is referred as a first person narrative by who we know as Junior the main character in the novel‚ his real name is Arnold Spirit‚ a Narrative American teenager at the age of 14 years who likes drawing cartoons because he simply believes that is the only thing that he is good at. Arnold grows up under difficult circumstances
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre Sherman Alexie has lost his faith in humanity. His poem “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” illustrates a despondent mind that has been shattered by the horror of his reflection upon contemporary and historical events. Alexie explores his feelings about Sand Creek and American history and ultimately realizes that he cannot pretend to be surprised by the past violent crimes directed against Native Americans. Alexie is inconsolable because he believes that the blood‚ violence
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It would be difficult for most of us to consider the predicament of being a stereotyped homeless man; Alexie takes us on that journey via Jackson Jackson with “What You Pawn I Will Redeem”. Jackson is a Spokane Native descent that comes across his grandmother’s powwow dance regalia at a pawn shop. He sets out to win this family heirloom back‚ in which he faces many obstacles along the way. During this difficult 24 hour period Jackson crosses paths with many people that are willing to help him‚ resulting
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Compare and Contrast In Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian‚ Junior is a young American Indian that is shy and has low self-esteem‚ and has a few issues physically and his surroundings. He has a best friend named Rowdy. Rowdy is rude and has no emotion to any situation. What many people at the reservation don’t know is that Rowdy and Junior have real problems at home with their parents. The differences between Rowdy and Junior are the family and the personalities.
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in the world. The first tribe I describe myself as belonging to is the tribe of creative expressionists‚ which thrive in areas of self expression and creativity. "I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited" (Alexie 5). I sometimes find it difficult to express and understant the emotions I feel raging inside. In these moments‚ I enjoy experimenting with vibrant splashes of paint across a canvas or dark scrawling into a notebook to better understand or cope with
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