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    prepare people to live in a universal neighborhood. In Superman and Me the author Sherman Alexei revealed that “His father was an

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    Danielle Henderson Lamar 1101 Ms. Comer November 13‚ 2012 My Insight on “Flight” Flight by Sherman Alexie was an empowering novel about a boy‚ named Zit‚ who in my opinion never experienced true love. He learned how to shut down and not feel any type of emotion. He learned that if you don’t love anybody then they wouldn’t be able to hurt you‚ if you don’t give your trust to people they wouldn’t be able to deceive you. Zit is fifteen and for the past nine years he has from careless family member

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    “Indian Education” by Sherman Alexie In the article title “Indian Education”‚ by Sherman Alexie. He attends a junior high school and a farm town high school close-by. “Indian Education‚” follows him through junior high school all the way through high school. He experience being bullied and also stereotype by junior high teachers. Alexie suffers punishment by his teacher where he attends the tribal school on the Spokane reservation. She put him to stand facing the wall with his hands up‚ holding books

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    Richard Rodriguez and Sherman Alexie shared similar experiences of adversity as children. Both authors came from disadvantaged backgrounds. Alexie and Rodriguez were minorities that attended predominantly white schools. Sherman Alexie and Richard Rodriguez established a connection with words and writing. Richard Rodriguez was aHispanic in an American environment with English speaking people. Rodriguez expressed in his essay that it was not possible to use family’s language in school. Rodriguez

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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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    discussion‚ but in the end “Mr. P” tells junior “Son…You’re going to find more and more hope the farther and farther you walk away from this sad‚ sad‚ sad reservation” (Alexie‚ 2007). Junior should not have to transfer schools and go through hell for being Indian. Throughout “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” (Alexie‚ 2007)‚ Junior is ridiculed and neglected for being Native American not only by his peers‚ but his teachers as well. There is a quote that makes one quiver and is much

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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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    “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” Reading “The Joy of reading and Writing: Superman and Me‚” gave me a different perspective of reading and writing. Sherman Alexie‚ who grew up on the Spokane Reservation in Wellpinit‚ Washington‚ explains his life as an Indian boy‚ and how reading and writing helped his life to succeed. Alexie purposes is to discuss how he first learned how to read and write‚ his intelligence as a young Indian boy‚ and Alexie as an adult teaching creative writing

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    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 of the playground to the other. They pushed me down‚ buried me in the snow until I

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    Storytelling is a vital component of Native American culture. Each story is passed down through multiple generations and is seen as a sacred part of that family’s history‚ as well as a way to continue legacies and preserve tribal traditions. In Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer‚ characters manipulate the tradition of storytelling in order to identify with their culture and appropriate others’ when in need of a physical or spiritual connection to their ethnic background‚ which results in physical and

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