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    My Literacy Journey

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    Growing up in a bilingual household has affected my literacy journey. It affected my Spanish writing because I focused more on English. This course has helped me look at English literacy beyond the point of it being another credit to simply cross off my list. A specific reading from this course that I was able to really retain and relate to was Victor Villanueva’s excerpt from Bootstraps: From an Academic of Color. Here he brought up several points that made me think differently about literacy and

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    on countless Indian communities. For example‚ in The Diary of a Part Time Indian‚ during a short period of time‚ Junior loses his grandmother‚ Eugene‚ and his sister. In Junior’s tribe‚ “about 90 percent of the deaths have been because of alcohol” (Alexie 200). Junior’s grandmother perished when she journeyed home from a powwow and was hit by a drunk driver. Furthermore‚ Eugene was shot‚ by his friend Bobby‚ who was intoxicated. Soon‚ Junior learns about the death of his sister‚ Mary‚ in Montana. An

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    The film Smoke Signals by Sherman Alexie‚ symbolism was valued throughout the film‚ depicting the emotions and thoughts of each character it gives a hint of the reality that the characters face and the history behind it. Native American storytelling displays the lessons with symbols to be learned in life. Sherman Alexie displays this in the movie Smoke Signals‚ when Thomas has a natural gift of storytelling. Storytelling is a part of the Native American tradition that Thomas has really

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    Superman And Me Essay

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    This essay “Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie was about how he learned to read. For Alexie‚ he picked up the habit of wanting to read from his father. He explains how long before he could even read he would pick up his father’s books and just look at them. Looking at how the books were structured allowed him to grasp the concept of books and paragraphs but it also allowed him to relate it to his own life. He looked at his own life‚ his family and thought about how they are each like their own little

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    In the story “This It What It Means To Say Phoenix‚ Arizona” by Sherman Alexie‚ there is a character named Thomas. Tomas is an Native American man with ratty old braids and broken teeth. Throughout the story Thomas helps an old friend named Victor get to a certain place to handle business by giving him money and along the way the make mends. Thomas is a generous and traditional man who has no friends nor family. Thomas is very altruistic towards Victor when he noticed that he is going through a

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    the Magi”‚ follows a young poor couple that give up their greatest belongings in order to buy something special for each other. However‚ they can not make use of their gifts‚ because what they gave up‚ relates to their possessions they gave up. In Sherman Alexie’s “This is What It Means to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona”‚ the protagonist Victor travels with his childhood friend Thomas to Phoenix to get the remains of his dead father. Thomas tells him the story of Victors dad telling him to “Take care of each

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    themselves becoming people living in the present as well as writing their own history‚ while others bass in the pass‚ never forgetting where they came from and who they are. The same happened in “This is What it means to say Phoenix Arizona”‚ by Sherman Alexie‚ the story followed two men who traveled to retrieve the remains of a deceased one while learning more about themselves and their culture. Victor and Thomas Builds-The-Fire are the two main characters that are both Native Americans and are connected

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    “Sex‚ profanity‚ and racism remain the primary categories of objection” (Doyle 2013: 3) when it comes to challenged or banned books. “The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie is not only an award winning book‚ but also one of the most challenged books in the United States. It can be found in the bibliography of books which are “challenged‚ restricted‚ removed‚ or banned […]” (Doyle 2013: 4). Critics consider the book offensive as it deals with alcohol‚ poverty‚ violence‚ sexual

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    alone with a bottle of one kind or another and James…” (Alexie‚ pg. 122 para. 1). Which also ends up being the year a fellow by the name of Jesse Wildshoe dies; it is at that point in time Victor makes the decision to go to an A.A. meeting to become sober. After having the rough life that Victor had‚ I think the obstacles and situations that Victor went through will let him be a better dad (because lord knows that is

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    Indian Rez

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    In Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie‚ one of the major players in Junior/Arnold Spirit’s life is the Rez. The Rez affects JUnior so much as a person and how he sees the world. The difference between Reardan and The Rez really changes Junior as a person because he begins to see how the rez keeps people down and how it can affect his life badly. “Reardan was the opposite of the rez. It was the opposite of my family. It was the opposite of me. I didn’t deserve to be there

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