Literary Analysis OfEvolution, By Alexie

The United States at one point decimated native people along with their identity and culture, simultaneously, exploiting them as individuals. In the novel “How to Write the Great American Indian Novel”, Sherman Alexie admonishes against toxic stereotypes held by white people against native people thus, showing hegemonic structures of them. This is because the dominance of white culture exploits people of other culture, race, identity and gender to acculturate to the white norms. The novels junctions are informed through a lens of an American Indian to awake the ignorance on stereotypical views for native people. The author draws attention not only to native people’s beauty, but also to their poverty, alcoholism and frequent

The key rhetorical device that Alexie used was pathos in order to cause the reader to feel some emotion of pity, sympathy, and sorrow. This is used towards the middle when he explains the struggle he had to face at a young age when teaching himself how to read and explains how others thought of Indians with this capability, he then writes, “A smart Indian is a dangerous person, widely feared and ridiculed by Indians and non-Indian alike. They wanted me to stay quiet

In the short story “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there is a great deal of literary elements used to enhance the story. For example, imagery is used to draw the reader 's attention further into the story by having them see it happening in their head and allegory is used to pull the reader away from the story by referencing things that happened somewhere else. While these two literary elements are both used to magnify different parts of the story, as well as counterbalance each other, the literary device that this essay will be focused on is symbolism. While it appears in many parts of the story one of the most obvious uses of

Power and control plays a big role in the lives many. When power is used as a form of control, it leads to depression and misery in the relationship. This is proven through the themes and symbolism used in the stories Lesson before Dying, The fun they had, The strangers that came to town, and Dolls house through the median of three major unsuccessful relationship: racial tension between the African Americans and the caucasians in the novel Lesson before Dying, Doll’s House demonstrates a controlling relationship can be detrimental for both individuals and The Stranger That Came To Town along with The Fun They Had show that when an individual is suppressed by majority they become despondent.

Since the beginning of the essay, Shakely strives to make the reader’s feel sympathy for him as he tells a story of an experience he had with the purchase of a baseball cap. The writer describes the Cleveland baseball cap, “with its leering, big-nosed, buck-toothed redskin caricature just above the brim,” (656). He further explains how he without meaning to lost respect for his mother’s culture. The example was when he wore the baseball cap that had an Indian name and mascots of the sports team he went to see, his mother found it quite offensive and took it off his head to throw it away. Although, in the essay, Shakely explains that he purchased that baseball cap because he felt that he had to support the team which somehow carried is mothers Native Culture on it. At this point, Shakely mentions about the long fight that his mother has had against the Indian stereotypes which were the betrayal that she referred to. This made him understand where his mother behavior was coming from. More specifically, he uses the betrayal that his mother felt towards him. He arouses more sympathy when he stated, “…the look of betrayal in my creek mother’s eyes is seared in my memory forever”

Petalesharo also elaborates on how the Cherokees have economically adapted to living near Americans. He states, “…when we awoke we would find the buffalo feeding around our camp-but now we are killing them for their skins…” (356). Petalesharo uses this as evidence to show the whites the Cherokees have gone against their original custom of not killing animals for their skins in order to assist in the American fur trade. This adaption shows Americans the Indians are willing to adapt their ways so they may all live in peace. Petalesharo uses the natives’ act of conforming to appeal to the American’s senses, making them realize living in peace with natives will not make them have to change their

In Outliers, Gladwell attempts to answer, What makes some people successful while others cannot seem to realize their full potential? In U.S. society, people are considered successful when they have traits and characteristics: self-sacrifice, intelligence, talent. However, He says that the conditions and circumstances surrounding our lives are the significant influential factors that determine our success, not our inner ability or talent. These talents and abilities allow these people to be separate from society.

Alexie might be trying to just show how Indians really were or are. I really don't understand what is happening here because it seems to be just a whole bunch of short stories that have very little to do anything with each other. I really dislike this idea because it just makes the whole novel seem confusing and hard to understand. In this quote, Alexie uses symbolic as the literary device.

Did you know a story about neighbors tearing each other apart and a teenage girl trying to save her family are actually very alike stories? They both have some themes that are the same. The theme is the “big idea” or the main message the author is trying to get across. A Wrinkle in Time is a book about a young teenage girl trying to save her family from a mind controlling evil called IT. The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street is a play about a flash and bang that causes some un-normal thing. The neighbors accuse each other for the mysterious things to the point where they destroy each other. Whether it’s a story about tearing each other down or saving your family, stories can have alike themes but can also be very different at the same time.

My rhetorical analysis evolves around the life changing assimilation of a Native American young man named Luther Standing Bear, and his views on why Indian Education Should Not Destroy Indian Culture. By breaking down the assimilation process and looking at the way it transformed the life of the Indian people, you will have the opportunity to take a look at the life of an Indian from Luther Bear’s perspective. After evaluating his viewpoint, you will be able to choose if you side with his opinion, or if you do not agree. Today the ordeal that Native American people had to go through so many years ago may be thought of as irrational and unnecessary, while others may believe it was highly necessary and a good example of the way people should

In his conclusion George cries “my culture is like a wounded deer that has crawled away into the forest to bleed and die alone” (102). This simile represents what is happening to the Aboriginal culture, in that the culture is slowly dying just like a deer slowly dies when it is hunted. This is a good comparison because just as a deer is a beautiful animal that North Americans admire and kill, the Native culture is also beautiful. However, George is trying to emphasize the importance of preserving the Native culture, because he does not want to see the Native culture die, just like a wounded deer. George causes North Americans to feel a sense of guiltiness for their unloving actions towards the Natives, because if they do not imminently learn to love from the Natives, the Native culture will die. North Americans often kill deer for amusement, but George does not want them to kill the Native culture through their unloving actions, because the Native culture is significant. Therefore, George hopes to encourage his North American readers to raise awareness for this issue, and make individual changes to rejuvenate his culture by expressing love. George continues the conclusion of his essay with another simile: “and we must love you-with a genuine love that forgives and forgets...a love that forgives the terrible sufferings your culture brought ours when it swept over us like

A Wrinkle in Time Critical Analysis In A Wrinkle in Time, there is a stark contrast between the Murry family and O’Keefe family. The Murry family has six people, two parents and four children. The O’Keefe family has thirteen people, two parents and eleven children. The Murry family is kind and understanding while it is implied that the O’Keefe family is abusive and does not pay much attention to their kids.

Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor and critic. He is mainly known for his trilogy that investigates, using fiction, the history of Nigeria. The trilogy begins with Things Fall Apart, followed by No Longer at Ease and ended with Arrow of God. Furthermore, in this critically analytical essay, through a feminist perspective, a chapter of his second novel, No Longer at Ease, published in 1960, will be discussed. The setting of the novel is Lagos, Nigeria and Umuofia, Nigeria during the 1950s, before Nigeria attained independence from Great Britain. The novel, No Longer at Ease begins with Obi Okonkwo on trial, charged for accepting a bribe. However, using flashback, the author takes us back to the point before Obi’s departure

Every country has its story and literature reflects the most important events that happened during a determinate period, and also, how people, politics, religion and the society in general developed during those periods. As I see it, literature, just as all forms of art, is a giant chronological picture that shows all the shades of a society in all its aspects. In this case, English literature, from 1660 to 1830 specifically, shows a great transformation from the beginning of the Restoration to the end of the Romanticism.

3. Concurrently with my anthropological interests and in spite of them, for a number of years, I practised the poetics and the theory of the literary history process in the area of teaching (seminars and lectures) using the traditional structuralist approach. This allowed me to maintain a rigorous methodological basis, even when I was inclined towards anthropological questions.