Sherman Alexie Quotes

Anybody can kill innocence. Bob Ewell not only destroyed his children’s innocence. He took that not only with his pride; but with his liquor. He’s an attempted killer that shows little remorse for his actions. He only feels his pride and rage. The blood is on his hands. His own blood. He only died in vain from his original goal. Bob is basically an idiotic and prideful coward that shows little remorse for his actions.

Have you ever wanted to experience living in the wilderness on your own? Do you think you would last very long? This question is what started the novel of Hatchet, wrote by Gary Paulsen. After being the only one who survived a plane wreck, though there were only two people in the plane, Brian Robeson had to survive until someone could find him. Brian lived in the wilderness for a total of 54 days.

“Bartleby is blind but he sees. The lawyer has eyesight but he is blind. Unlike Bartleby, he does not know where he is. He is in prison without knowing it. He has learned nothing. He has gained no insight into himself or into his society, and he has gained no understanding of Bartleby’s rebellion. He has denied his own capacity to love. What remains is only the sentimentality that emerges in his final words of pity and self-pity. “Ah Bartleby! Ah Humanity!” (Melville, p. 45) (Shulman, p. 22)

The evil character in To Kill A Mockingbird is Bob Ewell. The passage says, “‘Who beat you up? Tom Robinson or your father?’ No answer. ‘What did your father see in the window, the crime of rape or the best defense to it?

In Sherman Alexie’s “Superman and Me,” he uses rhetorical strategies to achieve his purpose of reaching his audience. He uses analogies to depict something confusing with something simple to understand. Syntax gives the readers an idea of Alexie when he was first learning to read. Finally, his emphasis on anaphora allows the audience to see his relentlessness to keep reading. The use of analogy, syntax, and anaphora persuades his audience to agree with Alexie’s purpose of this essay.

They both are trying to save lives in different ways. Sherman Alexie says “I am trying to save our lives.” This statement shows that he is trying to stop non Indians from thinking their ignorant. Superman tries to save lives by stopping crime.

The story takes place in Eden Mills, Mississauga, Ontario, Eric Walters’ hometown, and it takes place in present time. This is evident by the modern technology seen in the novel, and the lack of any futuristic technology.

In the book seventh most important thing our character Arthur Owens is a sweet kid with an unselfish heart, but one day it all took a turn for the worst. Arthur Owens loves his family he cares for his mom, sister and he's grieving of his dad's death. He's Always thinking about his family like when a cop car showed up to his front door stated in the book "In fact when Arthur looked out the window and saw a cop car pulling into his driveway late on Monday afternoon, his fist panicked thought was something bad had happened to his mom and Barbara". The Reason Arthur Owens is so possessive is because he loved his dad and when his dad died and threw all his dad's stuff out he got enraged. he thought of all of his dad's stuff as his stuff and no

"He became not a man but a member. He felt that something of which he was a part -a regiment, an army, a cause, or a country -was in a crisis. He was welded into a common personality which was dominated by a single desire." (Crane ) The Red Badge of Courage is written by Stephen Crane. It takes place during the Civil War. Some readers think Henry is a Coward while other think he is a hero. Henry shows heroic traits when he ends up fighting, grabs the flag, and stays with the army.

away from him and there was nothing for him now... He was alone and there was nothing for him.” This quote was filled with a lot of emotion and information about how Brian was feeling and it also expressed that the Author knows a lot about survival and adventure. It also shows that the Author still applies the formal tone throughout the book. Gary Paulsen chose the main character to be a thirteen year old boy because can input more information about the struggles of the main character because Gary Paulsen struggled as a teenager himself.

Mikasa Ackerman is a character from aot/Attack on titan. When she was little her parents where killed right in front of her. After, she was knocked out. Then when she woke she couldn't move. Eren Jaeger came to save the day for Mikasa.

People act different in certain situations some coward and run away while others stand strong and be courageous. In to kill a mockingbird almost every character shows acts of courage in dangerous situations. Atticus shows great amount of courage against the mob that was threaten to hurt him if he didn’t move out of the way and let them get Tom Robinson out of the upstairs of the jail house. He just sits there with not a worry in the world standing up and protecting Tom Robinson from the angry crowd.

In Alex Rider: Snakehead, teenage agent Alex Rider is held hostage by Chinese-British gangster addressed as Major Yu after being illegally smuggled into Australia under the cover of an Afghan refugee. To illustrate, Major Yu is snakehead general and part of the Scorpia executive board of sabotage and terrorism. Moreover, I predict, based upon various strings of evidence and particular quotes, that Alex will successfully flee from Major Yu’s grip and will be in the possession of M16 or possibly the Australian Secret Intelligence Service; both intelligence services in which Alex has served for in the past. This prediction is due to the fact that Major Yu remarks about his condition which is known as osteoporosis. Osteoporosis, more commonly known as brittle bone disease, is a type of infection that influences the bones and joints of an individual.

I’m Hannah Weaver, and I read For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund. The result of a genetic experiment gone wrong, social status is split up into Luddites and Reduced. The Reduced are born mute and mentally underdeveloped, and it has fallen to the Luddites to take care of them. The Reduction went on for generations before a miracle happened. Some babies from Reduced lineage were developed normally, and Kai was one of them.

Irie Jones is a typical teenager that wants to live up to her societies standards of beauty. Irie thinks that she is the complete opposite of the Western standards of beauty that are present in England at the time. Irie is overweight, always trying to hide her stomach with her arms. She begins to dislike her body when she sees an ad of losing weight on a lamp post. She also finds herself ugly, wishing that one day she will be beautiful.