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Comparing Rhetoric And Literature Essay On 'Superman And Me'

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12/15/2014 Jupiter Ed https://login.jupitered.com/app/0.php?user=1014501 1/2 Sally Garcia Rhetoric and Literature essay Sally Garcia English 12 Honors Period 6 Rhetoric and Literature Essay “Superman and Me,” by Sherman Alexie is an article adressing importance of reading and education. The main subject, beyond the surface is the stereotypes ethnicities go through due to race or by physical identification. The author states the importance of reading and with it, it gets you an education. As it seems the author, Sherman Alexie, got to be who he is now with an education. “I loved books, but I also knew that love only one purpose. I was trying to save my life.” Due to the authors’ ethnicity, Indian, there were already certain low expectations …show more content…

Los Angeles Times asked author Sherman Alexie to write the impact reading had done in his life. He as well got inspired on the expectations Indians are awfully low and wanted to prove those standards wrong to every different ethnicity. “Superman and Me” audience is addressed to higher leverl education people and different ethnicities. Sherman Alexie came from a “middle class by reservation” who struggle with stereotypes by his ethnicity. For example,by using the analogy of a paragraph to a fence, Alexie is providing a visual connection that all readers can understand in order to express his moment of epiphany that opened him to the world of reading: an understanding that words "worked together for a common purpose". The use of this visual analogy between a paragraph and a fence lends meaning to the extension of his analogy in the remainder of paragraph 3.Ethnicities can either see or relate how stereotypes fit into themselves when they are not considered to “fit in”. The author wants the audience to think as a result of reading his text to overcome expectations, stereotypes, by different ethnicities throughout the power of reading. The author was expected to fail in the …show more content…

He continues to speak of how once the boy grew into a man he would speak of his past in third person "as if it will somehow dull the pain and make him sound more modest of his talents". He thus explains in a nutshell why he wrote in third person and makes the12/15/2014 Jupiter Ed https://login.jupitered.com/app/0.php?user=1014501 2/2 audience wonder about the trials he has gone through and the pain he has suffered.The voice the author created was alike a comic book in certain areas of his text. He transitions back to the title “Superman and Me” by short and choppy sentences to imitate children’s reading from comic books. Sherman Alexie was an activist for Native American rights and cultures and a member of a Spokane. As well, an educated Indian man. The authors tone is identified as mocking. The way he views society into shaping and manipulating a person into the way society decides to. In conclusion, the rhetoric literary created in “Superman and Me,” by Sherman Alexie has a strong effect towards the reader as a very inspiring story. He was a young Indian child living on a reservation; however, he recognized that he was an intelligent person. Others around him tried to

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