Alex Writing Style

Nicholas is helpful and collaborative student.  He arrives each day with a willingness to learn.  Nicholas’s positive vibe radiates to his peers. Nicholas has a quiet strength about him. When he speaks or acts, others pay attention. His eyes light up when he is ready to share a pressing idea, then he articulates his thoughts clearly and convincingly.

Alexie's essay told about his life as a young child, a student in school, and as a teacher. As a child, Alexie learned to read with a Superman comic book that had pictures on every page. He would look at the pictures and guess what the words

He may not have understood the words, but he realized the basic structure of a paragraph and how his family was a story with each person their own paragraph. He took advantage of every opportunity he had to read. He knew he was different from most kids on the reservation and didn’t let that deter him. Alexie was determined to be a better than the expected Indian child, “I refused to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant. I was lucky. I read books late into the night, until I could barely keep my eyes open”.(495)

To improve literary skills, lower class citizens should take the initiative outside of the education system to increase the likelihood of breaking through their class’ economic barrier. In the essay, “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me”, Alexie says that he grew up as a part of the lower class on a Native American reservation. His parents often had to find different jobs that only paid minimum wage, which made it difficult for his family to live comfortably. Even though his family was part of the lower class, his father continuously read books. Alexie began reading to follow his father’s passion. He looked at novels and eventually understood their composition. Alexie’s firsthand experience allowed him to learn how to read in a much more efficient manner than if he learned through the reservation’s mediocre schooling system. Outside reading also motivated him to learn more. Alexie loved the feeling of gaining more information on how to have a positive impact on society. If he did not dedicate time for reading outside of his

Everyone on the planet has a goal set in life, but only a handful attempt to improve to obtain their goal by studying the subject their goal is in. In my English class, English 101 this quarter I was astonished by how much I had progressed as a writer sharpening my writing skills and also learned a lot about writing that I hadn’t learned before. In my writing portfolio for this quarter I had to write an autobiography essay, a research essay, and this reflection essay to develop my writing skills better. The writing assignments were fun to do because it challenged me to work on essays of different styles that were new to me. The essay assignments helped me grow as a better writer that gave me the self-confidence and skills to take on the world on my own.

Alexie's father was the reason he began to read which later became his passion. His father loved to read, and even though they did not have a ton of money, his father went out of his way to stock up on books. One-day Alexie decided to pick up one of his father's books and taught himself how to read. Before that, he had never read a book and could not even understand the words. A paragraph intrigued him; each house on the reservation was a paragraph, and each member of his family was a paragraph. The family members were separate people; however, there were still related making all of them together an essay. Then there was the Superman comic book he picked up one day. Although he could not read the panels of words the illustrations told the story. He would make up a story to go with the pictures and pretend to read the panels. Looking back at these times Alexie realized how lucky he was growing up with all these resources to teach

Through learning to read, Alexie integrates the ethos of a writer by conveying his intelligent character. He was so bright that he

As he grew up to become a writer, we see pain in the story he tells. “I loved those books, but I also knew that love had only one purpose. I was trying to save my life” (pg.18). Alexie wanted to be someone greater than what others expected him to be. People would put him down constantly, but he fought back just as much. He tried to save himself from the stereotypes of being just another dumb Indian. He had more determination to prove others wrong when it came too exceeding in reading to further excel in his daily life.

While Alexie states his voice by using metaphor, he emphasizes the meaning of reading repeatedly in his essay. He stresses how he strives to read variety of books, and he records that,” I read the books my father brought home from the pawnshops and secondhand. I read the books I borrowed from the library. I read the backs of cereal boxes… I read magazines. I read anything that had words and paragraphs” (18). Alexie lists out all the material he has read with the same sentence structure, yet he does not conclude all these things in one sentence. He exemplifies his passion to reading, for he tries to save his life. Due to his parallel repetition, Alexie impresses the audience by these

For five years, Alex would put his writing skills to work, writing and sending critical letters and drafted strategies and

In "Superman and Me," Alexie's main claim declares that reading can make a major difference in a person's life. To Sherman Alexie, reading and books helped him get off the reservation and find his way out in the world. However, "Superman and Me” comes alive for readers due it implies that all a person needs is courage to fly pass their current situation, this story shows how the hostility of such bravery can even be emphasized in classrooms. In addition, he demonstrates to readers that all it takes is effort to make dreams come true, especially when living in a hostile world. Although, Alexie uses rhetorical strategies to appeal to the reader in more than one way and his ethical appeal comes from him illustrating what reading did for his situation

In "Superman and Me," Alexie's claim declares that reading can make a difference in a person's life. To Sherman Alexie, reading and books helped him get off the reservation and find his way in the world. However, "Superman and Me” comes alive for readers due it implies the courage to fly theme in this story, as well as the hostility that that such bravery can or does incur and is even emphasized in classrooms. In addition, he demonstrates to readers that all it takes is effort to make dreams come true, especially in a hostile world. Although, Alexie uses rhetorical strategies to appeal to the reader in more than one way and his ethical appeal comes from him illustrating what reading did for his situation. For example, He points out that books

With Ethan’s permission, I used one of his essays as a sample so that other students would be able to understand the expectations of an advanced writing assignment. Although many of the other students were not able to emulate the depth of detail, analysis, and overall writing style of Ethan’s essay, they were able to see and understand how the essay should be written. Ethan is always willing to help his peers and step up as a leader while maintaining his humble

While attending writing class, I learned about the 4 steps in writing, bases for revising, organizing, and connecting specific information, and I also learned about the different types of essays such as descriptive, narrative, process, cause and effect and argumentative essay. I have been a student at Milwaukee Area Technical College for 1 semester, and over the course of my enrollment I have grown and learned more that I knew prior to attending this writing course. Participating in this writing class has taught me so much more than stuff about literature and language, it has taught me another way of expressing myself. I have learned here how to write and express myself, how to think for myself, and how to find the answers to the things that I don 't know. Most importantly I have learned how important technique, outlines and organization are. My goal in this paper is to inform writers about how my writing skills have improved.

He tells a story of his childhood and the story of learning to read and write as a Spokane Indian. His love for reading came from his father, initially, who also enjoyed reading. Alexie would take his father’s books and teach himself to read starting out with Superman comic books. Outside the Indian culture, Indians were expected to be unintelligent