cares a whole awful lot‚ Nothing is going to get better. It’s not” (Dr.Seuss‚ The lorax). In The Fourth of July by Audre Lorde and The Joy of Reading and Writing : Superman and Me by Sherman Alexie‚ both protagonists are treated as outcasts and have their unique selves suppressed by society‚ but continue to question why their identities are being taken away. Sherman Alexie and Audre Lorde both undergo the merciless cruelty that is racism‚ and discover they must actively fight against it‚ which presents
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when Sherman Alexie was born‚ was not an easy time for people of colored backgrounds. With the Civil Rights Movement and other movements for colored people‚ it must have been difficult for Native Americans to make it in life. By reading books and acquiring knowledge‚ even a Native American can be successful and “save his life.” Even though they were expected to fail during this time period‚ acquiring wisdom made them smarter in school‚ causing them to gain respect‚ not pity from whites. Alexie tries
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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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In the novel Flight by Sherman Alexie‚ the narrator Zits says‚ “Yes‚ I am Irish and Indian‚ which would be the coolest blend in the world if my parents were around to teach me how to be Irish and Indian. But they’re not here and haven’t been for years‚ so I’m not really Irish and Indian. I’m a blank sky‚ a human solar eclipse” (Alexie 5). In my opinion this quote could mean‚ since his parents died or left there is no one to help him learn his background or his culture. He is a sky without clouds
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In the story Superman and Me by Sherman Alexie. Sherman wants kids to understand that stereotypes are not always real. Sherman describes indians as‚ “children who were expected to be stupid. Most lived up to those expectations inside the classroom but subverted them on the outside.” All indians were expected to be stupid‚ but that only applied in the classroom. Outside the classroom was a different story. The indian kids were smart outside of classroom the total opposite of the stereotype.
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Compare and Contrast Education is something so sacred to some people but there are many people that take it for granted as well. "The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me" by Sherman Alexie and "Learning to Read and Write" by Fredrick Douglass‚ is similar in many ways. Both of these men were so eager to learn when in the meantime so many people that do have the opportunity are so clueless. People are so clueless that there were others‚ and still are‚ that wish they were in a position to
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The joy o f reading i believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first thing that strikes me. I believe in choosing books based on the dust jacket. I believe in reading books because others dislike them or find them dangerous. I believe in choosing the hardest book imaginable. I believe in reading up on what others have to say about this difficult book‚ and then making up my own mind. Part of this has to do with Mr. Buxton
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The Joy of Reading‚ or‚ What Reading Really Means to Me When I was first asked to make this short speech‚ I was struck by the title “What Reading Means to Me.” My knee-jerk reaction was “What doesn’t reading mean to me?” As a professional librarian‚ I thought of all of our standard platitudes: “Reading is Life.” “Reading is Fundamental.” “There is no such thing as too many books.” I might easily have gone on and on along this vein‚ until I remembered that‚ for me
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Alexie uses humor--or his characters use humor-to reveal injustice‚ protect selfesteem‚heal wounds‚ and create bonds. Alexie’s sophisticated use of humor unsettles conventional ways of thinking and compels re-evaluation and growth‚ which ultimately allows Indian characters to connect to their heritage in novel ways and forces non-Indian readers to reconsider simplistic generalizations. Alexie’s cross-cultural humor alternately engages readers--creating positive connections between individuals
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Every boy has a hole in his soul in the shape of their fathers; if a father is unwilling to fill that hole‚ it could leave a wound that cannot be easily healed. In the book Flight by Sherman Alexie‚ a half-Indian boy named Zits grew up without the memory of a father. Zits always has a lot of questions about his father — he wondered if he ever loved his family‚ and why did he abandon his wife and his infant child. The absence of the father figure in Zits childhood has created a hole in his soul; Zits
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