Analysis Of What You Pawn I Will Redeem

Then he decided to sell newspapers, so the newspaper guy gave him fifty papers for free. Jackson then went out on the street and only sold five in an hour and gave up and threw the rest out. He then went to McDonalds and bought burgers for him-self to eat, only to throw everything up. Then at the end of the story Jackson had thirty dollars left, out of everything he had over the course of twenty-four hours, and he ended up buying three other Indians plus himself breakfast, only to have the Indians disappear right after. I feel like if Jackson had tried harder he would have at least come up with most of the money he needed to really prove that he had tried hard.

At the end of the story, although Jackson has no money he has clearly learned a great deal, based upon his struggles, and has found a sense of something worthwhile to fight for in life. Eventually, the pawn shop owner decides to give Jackson his grandmother's regalia. This illustrates the fact that Jackson is not invisible as he once feared. He can win the respect

Jackson tried to destroy the national bank because he thought it only helped out the rich. In regarding the national bank veto Daniel Webster claims “It raises a cry that liberty is in danger, at the very moment when it puts forth claims to powers heretofore unknown and unheard of.... It manifestly seeks to inflame the poor against the rich,”(Document 5). What Webster is saying by this is that he thinks that if we destroy the National bank we will lose all sense of freedom.

Very early on, Jackson rather astutely realized that black consumer boycotts could be hugely successful in effecting change. This change was called, “Operation Breadbasket”. By using a board member on a black owned bank to finance his efforts, Jackson then “assumed the look and wardrobe of a leader” As the board member stated, “We could not have him as our leader and not supply the appearance and the satisfaction that go with it.” It is not every man that is willing to change his personal image to suit the dreams of others. The first target of Operation Breadbasket was Country Delight Products. This was a local dairy that employed no blacks but was solidly implanted in black neighborhoods. Jackson met with Country Delight and attempted to negotiate a change to black employees but was unsuccessful.Instead of giving up as lesser men might have done, he persuaded 100 black preachers to instruct their parishioners to boycott Country Delight Products and by the end of the 4 day Easter Weekend Country Delight had lost over a half a million dollars in products that had soured on the shelves and within a matter of days, Country Delight met with Jackson to offer 44 jobs to blacks. Jackson repeated this with Pepsi, Coke,-UP and many others but still did not rest on his laurels. Jackson is truly a man who has made an impact on America, from Civil

Jackson Jackson, or Jackson to the second power, is a homeless Native American man that lives in the Seattle Washington area. He is an honest and kind alcoholic that has no idea how to manage or spend money. Whenever he gets even five dollars, or any money, he usually blows it on alcohol. Until one day he sees his grandmother’s regalia in a pawn shop window and goes on a quest to win it back by getting nine-hundred ninety-nine dollars. He gets some money here and there, but he always ended spending it on himself or others and could not save up the money. Ultimately, he ends up getting the regalia through some hard work and kindness of the pawn shop owner. In “What you Pawn I Will Redeem,” Sherman Alexie uses the character Jackson Jackson to

Although he thought that the people should have a say in government he didn 't fight for slaves, women, or Native Americans to have their opinions heard. In fact he signed the Indian Removal Act, which moved Cherokee tribe out of Georgia into an Indian reservation in the West. Actually the Supreme Court ruled this unlawful in the case of Worcester v. Georgia in 1832, but when Georgia ignored the ruling Jackson didn 't complain. Jackson had a chance to stop the trail of tears from happening and saving about four thousand Cherokee Indians. Jackson believe the people in charge of the bank of the US were crooked and the bank would needed to be crushed. So, when the bill for the charter for the Second Bank of the United States came up he immediately vetoed it. He then decided to deposit the federal fund of the United States in pet 23 pet banks. Nicholas Biddle the head of the back fought back as hard as he could but Jackson was determined and frankly he didn 't listen to anyone but the people. Jackson issued his own form of paper currency (banknotes) that were backed by Specie Circular, which was usually silver or gold coins. The extreme inflation of the economy started after Jackson dismantled the Second bank of the US. The inflation was caused by the banks issuing banknotes that were unbacked by the Specie Circular. This was a big part of starting the Panic of 1837, it wasn 't the only reason but one of the biggest. When building our country the founding

The Bank for Jackson motivated poor people against wealthy Americans who would take advantage of the poor people for their selfish purposes.Jackson’s words kind of encouraged a class war between the rich and the poor people. Jackson vetoed the Bank after it was passed by both Senate and the House of Representatives, and this show how Jackson had too much power, and that he is taking freedom away and not treating people equally as Webster replied to Jackson’s Bank veto (Doc

Andrew Jackson didn't favor the federal bank believing in the corruptness of it even using word such as "Monopoly" and evils" (Doc. A) to describe the inner workings of it. When it came to removing the federal bank Jacksonian's believed that removal of it could make it so that the "selfish purposes" of he rich could be less assessable and less destructive to liberty. Document B even takes it a step further saying wealth is a "seed of jealousy" that Andrew Jackson, described as head, is planting into the Jacksonians to spark classes against each other. Theoretically they believed they where doing justice In bring the rich to a common ground but in practice really showed signs of jealousy and not doing much economic

A king would hire a friend; Jackson did this because he acted just like a king. Document 6 also says that Swartwout ended up stealing over $1 million dollars from the United States government. If Jackson had been any type of hero, he would not have let this awful thing happen to the

Admittedly, there are others that believe that Jackson was a hero. However, he was the farthest thing from a hero, he was a monster. He murdered innocent people, in fact, he loved it. He was a dualist, and he cheated in one of the duals he participated in. Also, he slaughtered the people of the Creek Nation and made other tribes march to Oklahoma. He was racist and cruel, he didn’t care about anyone but himself. He was a terrible man with nothing except bad intentions.

economy. Jackson’s publicity of his hatred for banks stemmed from the monopolistic power the bank possessed. Jackson believed in only hard money, and said, “I have always been opposed to the United States Bank, nay all banks” (Tindall 346). The issue of

To begin with, the National Bank was the rich and powerful's great friend, but Jackson's enemy. The bank didn't really cater to the poor. Being the common man Andrew Jackson is this made him furious. The National Bank

Tim O'Brien's “The Things They Carried” discusses a group of American soldiers in Vietnam dealing with the horrors and stresses of war and camaraderie. O’Brien describes the vast amount of supplies and personal items each soldier carries during the combat missions. Sherman Alexie’s “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” describes a homeless Indian named Jackson Jackson, who is obliquely striving to recover his grandmother's precious regalia. By staying true to his motives, methods, and despite his misgivings he eventually recovers the regalia. At first glance neither of these stories show any significant similarities due to the clear difference in setting and characters. In reality, the stories contain key similarities which closely relate the two, namely pertaining to the significance of memory. Although the extent and the effectiveness of memory

The beginning of the story, where the reader receives the background information, is Jackson mentioning how “Indians have to work hard to keep secrets from hungry white folk” (1396). By Jackson stating this, the reader becomes aware that Jackson does not trust whites or at least does not think of them as worthy to know the truth. This feeling more than likely comes from history between Native Americans and White immigrants in the early years of America. Jackson is a very proud person, especially with his heritage, and he does not consider what the historical whites did as fair. While explaining the difference in Indians before and after Christopher Columbus arrived, Jackson also mentions how he is “living proof of the horrible damage that colonialism has done to us Skins,” and how he is sometimes scared “of history and its ways” (1397).

“What You Pawn I Will Redeem” was written by Sherman Alexie. It reflects the life and cultural identity of Native Americans, in what was now a post-colonial America. Jackson Jackson, the main character in this story, is a Spokane Indian. Native Americans have for so long been referred to as Indians, to a point where they too call themselves that. The story is told in the first person. As for his personal identity, Jackson describes himself by saying “I’m a Spokane Indian boy, an Interior Salish, and my people have lived within a hundred-mile radius of Spokane.” This is the proof needed that he is actually a Native. He could trace his ancestry to America. Once he sees the powwow-dance regalia in the pawnshop, he recognizes it and wants to get