Sherman Alexie Analysis

Alexie draws in the reader by first telling a short story about her father back in the 1970’s. Alexie then goes on in briefly telling the reader what prison was like for their father. Eventually moving on to how the father met the mother and the relationship they father and mother had. This is an interesting take on the way a child views their father and mother and how the father has craved freedom. The fluidity of this short piece is excellent, it is not choppy and it gives just enough detail without dragging the story out. It also helps that this piece is an easy read. One of the things that I enjoyed from the piece was the comparison to how Indians would live compared to different races mentioned in the piece. I though it gave the Victor the narrator some personality. Victor also does a lovely job on creating the images of what his parents and their relationship, as well as his love for his father. The analogy of Jimi Hendrix and freedom for the freedom was easy to pick up on, especially for when the father had bought himself a motorcycle and found the freedom he craved (something Jimi Hendrix heavily

Alexie’s narrator describes a story of assumption and discrimination through not only the thoughts of the narrator and his life, but also how the narrator explains his thoughts and the diction he uses as he recalls certain moments. Throughout the passage, the narrator demonstrates how isolated he is, not only in the country where hia people are shunned, but also with others that are in a situation similar to his. Not only is there a feeling of loneliness and isolation, but also guilt of relation to how Indians are being treated today. Through stories of realistic fiction, Alexie addresses serious issues that others fail to.

    In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, Sherman Alexie shows us that the worst pain isn’t physical, it’s mental, as shown in the scene when Eugene’s best friend Bobby hangs himself to mourn his death (171), when Penelope reveals her bulimia/anorexia (107), when Arnold and Rowdy achieve their revenge on the three brothers by shearing and shaving their hair (22), when he reveals his seizures and his feelings about them (3), when he mourns Oscar’s death (11), and when his grandmother is killed (158).

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.

Alexie spoke of his path of becoming a writer from his childhood that there were blockades he had to overcome against Indians while showing how easy it is to give up as with those around him, yet he then speaks to all youths, both Indian and non-Indian about their power to become whatever they want yet how society at the same time has already crushed the spirits of some. King, on the other hand, persuades aspiring writers that a lot of reading is necessary and time must always somehow be made to do so, yet he then talks about his son Owen who aspired to become a saxophone player but even with all the time and effort, he was not joyful given that he only put necessary time towards his lessons and practice. The basic idea is that we should do things that we love as that is necessary in life and the things we love will not make us feel stressed or be

Row, in “ Without Reservation” emphasizes that Alexie is a storyteller and not a prose fiction writer. A story teller, he defines, has work that, “... contains, openly or covertly, something useful …” (Row 1). Row goes on by giving evidence to why Alexie is a storyteller, and not your usual Indian writer. As he explains, Alexie reinstates the fragmented and ruptured Indian life instead of the political topics associated with them. With this idea in mind, Row believes that Alexie instills this behavior in his writing to give way for his sharp moral endings. These genuine moral endings, installment of stereotypes and Indian beliefs with consequences

A father’s role in Native American society, plays a large role in their son’s identity. A father is viewed by their child as the “hero” or a great role model. But also sometimes a father isn’t always there for a child or gives them reason to view in a hateful way. In Sherman Alexie’s works, we see different father roles, both good and bad, and the effect it eventually has on their son’s.

Throughout the novel, Artie displays anger and resentment towards Vladek and Anja. During this time, he describes the extreme guilt and anger that he feels towards his mother's suicide. He states that "I could avoid the truth no longer...I felt angry, I felt numb!" (100, Spiegelman) He explains that he feels like a prisoner to his overwhelming guilt, due to the fact that he rejected Anja when she desperately needed love. After learning that Vladek burned his mother's diary, Artie is devastating and his anger, heartbreak and guilt is only amplified. Because the last connection to his mother has been destroyed, he lashes out in anger at Vladek and calls him calls a "murderer” (158, Spiegelman). This contributes to Artie's overall tension and leaves him unable to accept full closure. However, as the book progresses, he slowly begins to express the pain and intense anger he feels towards his

The story tots by Sherman Alexie communicates that sometimes people just need a hero to show them the way. In the story it states “ Indians need heroes to help them learn how to survive” and i think this saying applies to everyone. In the story, everyone is hopeless and down because no one has made it out of the reservation, many has gotten close but fell into the drinking cycle. I think they need a hero or role model to show them the right way, someone such as Adrian or Victor. Victor and Adrian can help in many ways, like when they see the boys going to go do something bad, they can tell them to stop. Its very surprising because they just watch the boys do bad things like they are waiting for a person to step up and show the kids what is

He knew his past and where he came from and he never tried to cover that up in his writing, instead he expressed it and let it shine as something unique about him. Alexie shows sarcasm and playfulness throughout his whole essay.

Racism has always been an issue in America not just only towards Mexicans or African Americans, but to Native Americans as well. Throughout history, Native Americans were treated as if they were inanimate objects that they are beneath us, and even till this day many of them are still being treated that way. The Native Americans have always been misunderstood what some Americans see is “redskins” and not a genuine person no matter the race or where they came from. No one else knows more about being a Native American in a world of racism rather than Sherman Alexie himself who has dealt with these issue’s before. He argues not only his struggles, but also the struggles of other Native Americans a taste of what its like to be in their shoes what they go through almost every day of their life’s.

Throughout Flight, by Sherman Alexie there are a great deal of hints to the fact that Zits desires and needs to be loved solely because every teenage boy requires someone to talk to, even though they pretend everything's okay. In the beginning pages Zits is overwhelmingly hostile to his latest foster family, this reveals that he is not a particularly open character or will grow to be comfortable with them anytime soon. He is still in denial over the death of his mother and wants to feel her love again, although he locks others out when they attempt to love him. Zits does, in fact, become quite genuine friends with Justice because he misses feeling a companionship with someone, and Justice was voluntary as that person. During his Flights Zits

The character Fekadu, an African fighter pilot left his family to be free by himself. He now drives taxis in America and meets the main character. He loses his family and has to deal with the crushing guilt of making an almost impossible decision of staying and almost certainly dying or leaving his family behind. He wants acceptance for his awful deeds. Though he is only given a small part in the story, he is one of the most complex characters Alexie has written. Loss and acceptance are recurring themes not only in Alexie’s work, but many other books and stories. We all experience loss and the want of acceptance. It is always a subject that will hit close to our hearts.

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

In the poem “Evolution “written by Sherman Alexie, in summary, the poem is about a white man opening a pawn shop near the Native American reservation, which was also near a liquor store. In the poem, Alexie shows how deceiving Buffalo Bill was to the Indians. The first central image I see is Buffalo Bill. Alexie uses Buffalo Bill/Americans to show the irony and deceit of the Indians yet again with the use of alcohol in order take their belongings. When Buffalo Bill opened the pawnshop across the street from the liquor, which he said opened 24 hours a day seven days a week (Kirszner & Mandell, 2012).