Discovering Joy in Reading July 14‚ 2013; that’s when everything changed. For months people had told me to just pick up a book and it will just come naturally. Some people have actually given me several books to read‚ but I never did. There was just something different about Jesus Is ________. by Judah Smith. The cover‚ the author and the title completely captured my attention. My long journey of stubbornness towards reading was slowly about to be defeated. I actually bought the book Jesus Is
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Response: If I’m being honest‚ I didn’t like any poem from the reading list. I felt the lack a connection from the author to me. Through the years how I adapt to a poem has changed as I shifted from poetry‚ to story telling poetry (narrative poetry)‚ to spoken word. In most cases with narrative poetry or spoken word‚ often times the poems do not have a rhythmic pattern. I believe that reason to be why I found it so difficult to genuinely connect to one of assigned poems as I feel that in some cases
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6. Alexie writes very informally and very casually‚ which is suitable because he follows the format of a diary. As readers‚ we are inside of Junior’s mind‚ so we experience his real self‚ and the self that he presents to others. There are several times throughout Junior’s narration where he will ask the reader a direct question. When talking about the dentist who pulled out ten of his teeth in one day he says‚ “What a bastard‚ huh? (3). After describing all of his physical abnormalities‚ he refers
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The Simple Joys of Reading What happens when a person is bored and restless? Maybe he would like to go to a cinema and kill a couple of hours watching a movie. But what if there are no good movies or if he has missed the screening time? Perhaps he could go for a walk. What if the day is too hot for a walk? What if it was raining? What if this bored and restless person is well and truly stuck at home? The answer is absurdly simple. If that person has cultivated the reading habit he would neither
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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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In the short story “Every Little Hurricane‚” author Sherman Alexie expresses that a culture’s environment is the greatest barrier to individualism; specifically‚ environmental determinism creates a broad obstacle being that it’s a leading factor in determining not just what people do‚ but who they are. One’s environment‚ or one’s "storm‚" hinders an individual’s climb towards determining his own identity.Victor is a young boy living on the Spokane Reserve that struggles with his culture’s alcoholism
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Adversity In Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian‚ the author allows readers to create a vivid image of the lives of the Spokane Indians by using teen language‚ humor and irony because it allows the readers to face serious issues in an enjoyable way. Junior makes the readers understand the way he lives in his reservation full of poverty and alcoholism and goes to the outside world filled with people discriminating against him. Alexie‚ using Junior’s humor and
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By reading the passages on Malcolm X‚ Richard Wright‚ and Sherman Alexie it is only obvious that reading brought enlightenment to their lives‚ and all three authors have a lot in common. These significant people felt trapped in some form‚ and their insatiable hunger for reading set them free. They were all fascinated with the act of reading‚ and they all taught themselves‚ and gave themselves the education needed to enlighten and influence others. Discovering how to read provided many opportunities
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a large quantity of rape and violence cases on the reservation. In the Native American culture and society‚ there is a prevalent cycle of failure and inability to associate with the majority of people along with mentality issues and addiction. Sherman Alexie combines these factors in the short stories “The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn’t Flash Red Anymore” and “Every Little Hurricane‚” while the authors from “Frozen in Time”: The impact of Native American media representations on identity
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A big pattern that takes place in Flight by Sherman Alexie is continual self destruction. Zits has had a traumatic childhood. His father left him and his mother died. Also‚ he has been in 21 foster homes‚ each one worse than the last. He has so many feelings built up inside of him‚ many feelings of shame‚ failure‚ and hatred for those who hurt him. As a result‚ he reacts in the only way he knows how‚ with violence. In Chapter Two‚ Zits shoves his foster mother and runs off while still being aware
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