An Analysis Of Sherman Alexie 's ' Flight, The Joy Luck Club ' And ' The Glass Castle '

In the story, Sherman Alexie used lots of literary devices. Each serving its own purpose. These devices are important to know because they can help develop the story and make it more interesting and creative. They also can help you get to know more about a character's development.

The beginning of this chapter mainly demonstrates the idea of shame towards one's response to change. By using a regretful tone, O'Brien is able to convey the reader to believe that he feels shame and embarrassment towards his actions that are revealed later in the chapter.

Imagine a memoir with skillfully alternating chapters between two characters that have distinct differences. It 's what sets James McBride 's chronicle from your average, everyday book as this story as he packs a healthy amount of content such as issues of race, religion, and identity into one paperback. Published in February 1998, it maintained the New York Times bestseller list for over 2 Years, won the 1997 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Literary Excellence, was an ALA Notable Book of the Year, and has sold more than 1.5 million copies. It has been published in 16 languages and in more than 20 countries. It is an autobiography that sort of strays away from the common formula, however it still retains the core welcoming feeling you get when you can relate to the characters. McBride recognizes what a wonder his mother is when she raised 12 kids and gets her to open her secretive past.

Alexie’s narrator describes a story of assumption and discrimination through not only the thoughts of the narrator and his life, but also how the narrator explains his thoughts and the diction he uses as he recalls certain moments. Throughout the passage, the narrator demonstrates how isolated he is, not only in the country where hia people are shunned, but also with others that are in a situation similar to his. Not only is there a feeling of loneliness and isolation, but also guilt of relation to how Indians are being treated today. Through stories of realistic fiction, Alexie addresses serious issues that others fail to.

Sherman Alexie’s “Flight” is a book about a time traveling orphan named Zits, guilty about shooting a busy bank. His whole life was built on wanting to escape his foster homes and witnessing acts of violence done to others and himself. He confesses that the only person that ever truly loved him died when he was 7. His alcoholic father chose drinks rather than his own family. Because of the evil in his life, he becomes that evil himself. He becomes somebody easy for himself to hate and thinks any ounce of compassion towards him is fake. His form of revenge on the universe is shooting mass amounts of people. Not even a few minutes into his shooting spree, he is shot and gone before he hits the ground. He then experiences the lives of an FBI agent, a young Indian, an old French soldier, a pilot that trained a terrorist, and his own cowardly father. Sherman Alexie’s telling of Zits emotional experiences makes you weep and you are forced to learn along with Zits. Through his time traveling journey and experiences through others’ lives, he learns lessons about life and the importance of finding the good rather than the bad.

Whether it’s trying to cope with living in poverty, being different from others, or questioning fate; all internal battles that these authors are writing about in their essays. In the essay ‘Shame’ by Dick Gregory, he explains what he must do since he is living in poverty. Nevertheless, his family doesn’t have much money he goes to school on an empty stomach, which makes him fidgety in class. He doesn’t have hardly any food at home so, he does anything he can to eat something, even if it’s not meant for eating, “Paste doesn’t taste too bad when you’re hungry.” (Gregory 165). In another essay ‘White Lies’ by Erin Murphy, the internal battle that Connie, the new girl, has, is being different from others. “Connie is albino…Only her eyelids had color”. (Murphy 154). Nobody looks like Connie and people make fun of her for it. She doesn’t look the same as her family members. She is beside herself with her appearance. The teacher doesn’t stop the bullying either. Everyday Connie hears the same

Even as a full-grown adult, the author of The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls, still stands out as being different. Jeannette grew up in abnormal circumstances that some might consider neglectful or abusive. From her point of view, her upbringing was just her normal. Today, Walls is a successful author and public speaker. With her wacky stories, hearty life, and positive outlook, she is a likable character that has been formed and molded by her life experiences. Something that Jeannette and her family has dealt with throughout their life is appearing different than others around them. Being different, from looks to character, was a theme that proliferated Jeannette Walls’ book, The Glass Castle, just as being different

Throughout the book, the author points out the lives of characters and what obstacles they go through which leads them to choose a different style of life by running away, giving up their

Individualism. Like all memoirs and novels, Rocket Boys and The Glass Castle present a lesson that one may choose to live by. In this case, individualism is an evident factor that relates to both Jeannette’s and Sonny’s stories. That is, both protagonists displayed the idea of disregarding their father’s wishes for their future and just going for their own.

Book Theme: In the arduous journey from childhood to adulthood, a young woman is faced with two things that need great attention and balance - the progress of her individual social standing, and the welfare of her immediate family.

“He wanted nothing more than to place his hands around their necks and choke the life from them.” After weeks of pain, perseverance, and his own wit, Glass is able to nurture himself into better health. By infusing pathos for Glass into the book, Punke is able to shift a reader’s empathy for Glass as trying to survive. Readers will also approve of seeking revenge from the more guilty deserter, Fitzgerald. In the novel, Glass is brought to court and fails to convict his deserter of anything.

The mind is a powerful thing. This is a theme that is shared among the five short stories we have read in class (Happy Trails) (Christmas at Grammas) (The Mimis) (Crazy) (The Boy Without a Flag). This theme talks about how peoples minds are very influential on your decisions whether you realize it or not and how peoples emotions and beliefs change over time.

“It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life” (Nicholas Sparks). Author, Jeannette Walls, had a tough childhood mainly because of her parents decisions. She turned it around to become a successful writer. She wrote The Glass Castle. A New York Times bestseller, that depicts her childhood to adulthood, and tells the circumstances that the Walls parents put their children in. Although Jeannette’s parents loved their children as much as they were capable of loving them, two damaging characteristics of their parenting style, irresponsibility and shiftlessness, almost destroyed the family and certainly cast a shadow over their childhood.

Golding effectively presents characters through symbolism, stereotypes and natural imagery. Golding wrote this book as he wanted to expose the readers to the real worlds death how people are treated in the world.

In the essay, “Superman and Me” Sherman Alexie, the author, speaks from personal experience through the use of an anecdote to convey his message. He speaks about how he learned to read from a comic book and what life was like for him, a boy living with his family on an Indian reservation. The message he conveys through this narrative is that it is ok to be different, and in fact, it can save your life; never give up just because you are the only person around you doing it. He develops his claim by deciding which parts of the story he tells, and goes into detail on, at different times within his essay. This allows him to have a well controlled, well developed claim.