you found out you were dying of cancer? Would you able to make jokes and laugh it off as though it were nothing? Would your humor be a way of denying the truth? People use humor in different ways. In "The Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumor"‚ Sherman Alexie tells how one man tries to use humor to deny the reality of his terminal disease. He shows how humor can be taken too far. This story demonstrates how humor can destroy one part of your life as it helps you cope with another. Jimmy has been diagnosed
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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 to Indians children. Alexie learned not only how to read but to love reading. He used his love of
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Reservation realism The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a young adult-novel written by the multi-artist Sherman Alexie. The book was published in 2007 and has since then been critically acclaimed‚ winning a National Book Award. In the novel‚ we get into the life of a fourteen-year-old Native American named Arnold Spirit‚ also called Junior. He lives with his alcoholic mother and father and a depressed sister on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Willpinit. Junior is‚ besides being
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Superman and Me Pronouns In the autobiography “Superman and Me‚” Alexie uses an interesting strategy to show how his position has changed in the society as a “smart‚” “arrogant‚” and “lucky” Indian. He uses the strategy of shifting pronouns to show that he was an outlier‚ very different from the rest of his peers‚ and able to “save his life” through hard work. This strategy helps the reader to view his position and role in the society through different perspectives. He sometimes uses the pronoun
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n “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” by Sherman Alexie‚ the main character is a homeless Native American Indian who came to Seattle to go to college and quit after two semesters. Alexie creates a world where the protagonist seems to find help from every turn that he makes. Setting The setting is the 1990’s in Seattle. Jackson Jackson is a Spokane Indian. According to Jackson Squared‚ his "people have lived within a one-hundred-mile radius of Spokane‚ Washington‚ for ten thousand years." Several
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greatly affect the way we live‚ especially if those stereotypes are negative and those expectations are low. Sherman Alexie perfectly illustrates this in his article‚ “Superman and Me”. He demonstrates how the power of expectations have caused Native Americans to lose hope‚ and remain stuck in a helpless cycle that is passed down through the generations. I wholeheartedly agree with Alexie that people are dragged down by the expectations of others. If people expect you to fail‚ you are more likely
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Interpretation I believe that Alexie used many tools in order to grab his audience and keep them captured throughout his story. Alexie used his personal experience to guide up through the story and capture the audience with his feelings and emotions throughout his life. He showed how he went from and Indian boy who could not read at all‚ to a man who could write and many looked up to. Alexie showed how he
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Alexie Sherman “I have to prove that I am stronger than everybody else. I have to prove that I will never give up. I will never quit playing hard.” pg (132). Junior is an intelligent Native American teenager that wishes for nothing more than a hopeful future. Though the story is written with a humorous tone the message of the novel is tragic. The tragedy that Alexie through the voice of Arnold presents in his story is that Native American have
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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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The importance of literacy is explained by Alexie through his Native American experiences. His father was the reason why he started on reading‚ his admiration of his father helped him to discover his future potential. As he read he realized that he was doing much better compare to his classmates
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