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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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    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 short story "Superman and Me"‚ the author‚ Sherman Alexie talks about how he came about helping Native American children become educated. He detail’s about his life growing up on a Native American reservation with a limited supply of education. He taught himself how to read‚ and through the abundant supply of books from his father he became an “oddity” for being a prodigy. The author repeats the phrase‚ “I was trying to save my life” but later on he changes it to‚ “I am trying to save our

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    a young age knew and taught himself how to read! How did he manage to do this? What is it like to try and change a certain action that everyone else does? Sherman Alexie was just six months old when he had started to experience a life-changing process. His life was between in life or death. His parents weren’t ordinary parents. Somehow‚ Alexie gained the motivation to learn how to be on his own and learn how to read because he couldn’t do it. He would notice that not many people like him in his

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    Red is one of the strongest of colors; it has a power over the eye. It was a run-of-the-mill afternoon; I was in my usual ride in going home for the weekend. Looking out through our car’s window everything was blurry‚ the surroundings were nothing but blurred images‚ you could only see the distorted colors of infrastructures‚ vehicles‚ stalls‚ and people. Lastly‚ you could only hear the engines of other cars as they pass by. But in a certain moment everything changed‚ there was a moment of pause

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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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    greater importance than the ability to read and understand the written word. It can take a person of any background as far as they can dream. This is truly evident in the essay‚ “Superman and Me”‚ by Sherman Alexie which tells of the author’s struggle growing up poor on a Native American reservation in Washington State. From a young age‚ his literacy became Alexie’s saving grace‚ thanks to his father who inspired him to begin reading. This inspiration changed the path of his life. I‚ too‚ was

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    who was not set up from birth to be a success. When reading One Stick Song‚ you get the sense that the author is a person who has a sense of humor. Yet‚ not one of his poems or vignettes made me laugh‚ and I think that is a product of how well Alexie infuses his writing with the past. Many of his writings are extremely clever‚ with little twists in them to catch the reader. This is Alexie’s way of showing the reader what their expectations were‚ and then refusing to fulfill them. One in particular

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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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    is still going on nowadays. Not just by one specific type of race‚ but every race has stereotypes. William himself is a victim of this. “William himself was a little brown guy‚ so the other travelers were always sniffing around him‚ but he smelled only of Dove soap‚ Mennen deodorant‚ and sarcasm” This quote took place the airport. This story shows us that racial profiling still occurs today‚ also that it can happen anywhere and everywhere no matter what part

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