Differences Between Sherman Alexiie And The Hunger Of Memory

Compare the ways in which the authors of two texts explore how society treats people who are different.

Sherman Alexie the author of the essay "The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me" was born and raised on a Spokane Indian Reservation. Growing up, his family did not have a lot of money, yet today Alexie is known as one of the most prominent Native American writers. Alexie reminisces on his childhood when he first taught himself how to read. In the essay "The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me" Sherman Alexie suggests, that for Native Americans reading is the key to education and education is the key to prosperity in life.

“Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie is a brief passage describing a personal experience of the author’s childhood – specifically, how he learned to read and the impact it has had on his life. He discloses that he is of Indian descent from his father. Sherman speaks of his father in admiring tones, of how he devoured books and was an educated Indian, of how his house was always full of literature and how he chose himself to attend catholic schools (he was one of the very few Indians who purposely did). According to Sherman, he learned to read through the use of a Superman graphic novel by imagining his own meaning to the different panels and deducing what the words meant by doing this throughout the story. Eventually, he ends up reading more and more, and he is signaled out in his

Sherman Alexie recalls his childhood memory of learning to read, and his teaching experience in “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me”. He devotes his interest to reading. By this way, he breaks the stereotype that Indian boys are expected to be stupid and dumb, and later on he becomes a successful writer because of his endeavor to read. Alexie vividly narrates his younger life by using metaphor and repetition with a confident tone, in order to strengthen his description of his reading talent, his influence to the other Indian boys and how he struggles in poverty to change his life.

Sherman Alexie has various quotes that he uses throughout “Superman and Me” that support his main idea and explain it, this is one, “I refused to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant. I was lucky.” This quote from “Superman and Me” is arguably the most important line in the entire passage. It shows how difficult it was to learn to read and write, and do it well, at least for him. His circumstances were not the best as he lived in an indian reservation, and they weren’t treated very well. He really wants to show how the he was carried by the knowledge he had, and the main idea supports this claim.

Superman and Me showed Sherman Alexie's willingness to learn. He “...learned to read with a Superman comic book” (Alexie 1). The picture acted as the dialogue

He said “The words inside a paragraph worked together for a common purpose.” With this knowledge, he was able to think his existence is important as much as non-Indians. Learning what the paragraph is through reading made Indian kid stronger, smart and arrogant. He said, “I loved those books, but I also knew that love had only one purpose. I was trying to save my life.” It means he educated himself to protect himself from discrimination. At this point, he already knew the power of reading. By gaining knowledge, he thought he would become smarter and get more confidence. That is, I think he believed reading more and more book help to become a superman. As a result he became a superman and saved his

Sherman Alexie the author of the essay "The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me" was born and raised on a Spokane Indian Reservation. Growing up his family did not have a lot of money, yet today Alexie is known as one of the most prominent Native American writers. Alexie reminisces on his childhood when he first taught himself how to read. In the essay "The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me" Sherman Alexie suggests, that for Native Americans reading is the key to education and education is the key to prosperity in life.

These stories are very much similar in many ways. They both capture how unique and diverse America is. The main idea of both is that our country is a mixture of tons of different things that is combine to form something even greater. In The Immigrant Contribution, it stated that “The ideal of the ‘melting pot’ symbolized the process of blending many strains into a single nationality…” (Kennedy,27). It is also the idea that America has never been all-American, it was founded on different things that were mended to

The autobiography book, Hunger of Memory showcases the struggles Richard Rodriguez undergoes during his journey towards Americanism. Rodriguez endures struggles towards transforming from being a Mexican to an American boy (Rodriguez, 27). During his education, Rodriguez is considered as a minority the fact he is an immigrant to the United Kingdom. In other words, what Richards concludes is that complexion, race, assimilation, as well as Americanism, are the major challenges he faces during his education. Given the above affections to the American society, it becomes a trial for immigrants to adapt to the American environment that they dream of. Life was generally

The settings of these narratives are alike in several ways. First, both are tales of African American middle class families living in south side Chicago. The whole family lives together in both stories, which promotes togetherness and family life. The opening scene of the

Even though these short stories were written by different authors the stories all portray the same theme and

The story The Nose and Black boy have things in common on how they got mistreated by other people who had thought they were better than them. The two stories have the same tone because they have people getting mistreated for their race and for their money. These books talk about how they both lost the power to do anything because of what has happened to them or for who they are and from where they came from.

Comparison of Identity Crisis in “Flight Patterns” by Sherman Alexie and “A Pair of Tickets” by Amy Tan Sherman Alexie’s “Flight Patterns” from Ten Little Indians and Amy Tan’s “A Pair of Tickets” from Joy Luck Club share a common theme of searching for identity. Each of these short stories is about multicultural characters having trouble finding how they belong in their communities and cultures. Unlike people who live in their mother country or come from one specific race, multiracial people have to figure out how to balance the culture of where they live and the culture of their ancestors. This confusion over identity is the main cause of strife for William in “Flight Patterns” and Jing-Mei Woo in “A Pair of Tickets.” While Jing-Mei struggles

Dinaw Mengestu, Richard Rodriguez and Manuel Munoz are three authors that have been through and gone through a lot of pain to finaly get accepted in their societies. They are all either immigrants or children of immigrants that had trouble fitting in America’s society at the time. They struggled with language and their identities, beucase they were not original from the states and it was difficult for others to accept them for who they are. They all treated their problems differently an some tried to forget their old identeties and live as regulalr Americans others accepted themselves for being who they are, but they all found a way to deal with their issues.