Carlyon Foster Segal's The Dog Ate My Indian Education

The author relates to a second important topic, by showing within the story, characters, experiences, places and problems that resemble his past. As stated on “The Short Story for Students” by Sara Constanstakis, the personages in Alexie’s short story are not real, but they are hinged upon

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

Rose first explains how the educational system classifies a child’s class. He then proceeds to elaborate on how the vocational class works for those who do not do as well in school. He uses pathos so the reader feels emotional for the less fortunate student in the vocational class. Rose conveys his beliefs by using personal examples. He learns true qualities of people and shares the stories of Dave Snyder, Ted Richard, and Ken Harvey. Sharing the personal indications of what puts the students in the vocational class, gives the reader the notion that they have strengths that do not apply doing well in school. Rose ties the examples together in the end to confirm his opinion that one should never settle being defined as average.

Despite these ignorant accusations, Alexie refused to not only be a statistic within his community, but a failure as well. This is shown as he wrote, “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” (pg. 17). He jumped at the chance to read anything in his tracks, giving him the opportunity to expand his mind and knowledge base. He fought with his classmates on a daily basis because they expected him to stay silent if questions were asked in class. Alexie refused to do so; he bypassed his classmates intellectually and would not let anyone make him feel inferior.

In the beginning of this story, Edie is a very naïve fifteen-year-old girl. She does not yet realize that the world does not cater to her, or tell her how to do everything in life. One way she shows this is by thinking that at school, “the work was hard, they didn’t make it nice for you or explain…” (Munro, page 38). When Edie

Alexie wants to show how he is affected by racism in his time and how even though there have been laws passed not to discriminate against people. Whenever police brutality is a main issue in today's era, then that means that racism has not been resolved. Alexie is proving the issue and proving that it has permanently scarred people to where they can’t fall asleep knowing they will be okay in the morning. Whereas the people that are causing this to people of colored decent, sleep as if nothing had happened to them and they are not even realizing how much hurt they are causing other people.

There’s is an immense pressure on the boys to excel in academics, sports, and clubs to ensure their acceptance to colleges. His education is quite similar to today’s America. It is in this accademia that Amory first tries to identify himself. Through his first college years, Amory learns how to work the social structures of the great American school system. After failing a math class, Amory loses his first definition of himself and turns to philosophy instead of his graceful conversation.

Alexie was born with hydrocephalus (water on the brain). When he was 6 months old, he had an operation that could have made him mentally retarded. He was raised on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. He spent a lot of his time reading at the school library. At the age of 8, he went to Reardan High School, 32 miles from the reservation. He did well in highschool and then attended the Spokane's Jesuit Gonzaga University in 1985. There, he was pressured to do well and started to follow in the alcoholic footsteps

Alex was a happy, well-adjusted child until his parents separated which triggered a storm of changes in his life changing him from a well-adjusted child to a trouble maker. According to Mr. Williams, Alex’s teacher, Alex is the problem. In reality, Alex is a victim of the choices made by the adults in his life. He is reacting the best way he knows how to a situation forced upon. He didn’t choose for his Dad to have an affair, for his parents to separate, or to have his Mom go back to work fulltime and then get sick. It wasn’t his choice to discontinue music lessons, sports, family trips, or having friends over. For Alex, this has been a huge disruption over which he has no control. He has become apathetic and sullen. His aggressive

It’s the night before the first day of high school. At 1:00AM, Jamie still nervously lies awake on her bed, while thinking about her new chapter in life. Middle school wasn’t the best experience for her, as she was bullied for being “overweight” and being a nerd. Neither boys nor girls liked her for the way she was. Jamie couldn’t wait for high school to start so she could never see them again.

Ally is a sixth grader who has been told all her life how dumb she is. She transferres to a different school for every year of elementary school, and everywhere she goes it’s the same; her classmates always bully her for being such a “loser”. She always finds ingenious ways to get out of doing her classwork, and assignments. All her life, Ally’s teachers would

Carolyn Foster Segal, an English professor at Cedar Crest College, wrote The Dog Ate My Flash Drive and Other Tales of Woe to describe excuses students give for not turning in assignments on time. The professor makes it very clear in her syllabus she does not accept late assignments yet it has not deterred students from trying to do so. She breaks down the most common types of excuses in to five categories using sarcastic and witty humor.

The quote that may be most important how Alexie started reading is “I learn to read with a superman comic book”. The book that peaked my interest during my elementary years was a book called “Goosebumps”, this book is important to me as how Superman comic book is important to Alexie. I have read many of the “Goosebumps” books and I love them all. Goosebumps was also one of my favorite shows. It was fun comparing the book to the show. I loved the test that the school provided that was given at the computers. In addition, every time I passed a test I received points that leaded to

Auggie had very low self confidence. He hated going outside and watching as people made dirty faces at him. But all went down when one day, his mother told him that he had to start school at a public school. At first, he denied instantly not wanting in anyway to make him life more miserable than it already was. However, Auggie thought about it. He knew that people were going to stare him down. He knew he was going to be judged. Auggie knew that it wasn’t going to be easy. Auggie did not want to go to a public school at all. When Auggie arrived at his school, what he feared would happen did happen. However, didn’t let his fear set him back. He decided to accept the fact that now he was going to attend a public school, and he did. He started talking to new people and ignoring all dirty looks he got from other people. Courage kept him up throughout the school year. Everyday he fought his biggest fear of coming to school and watching people judging him, but courage was his key to success. Courage was cannot only be found in your life and in stories, but all over the

There is a quote from an author named Salman Khan from his book about education, his book is called The One World Schoolhouse where he talks about education reimagined. In this quote he talks about education and wrote: