Sherman Alexie 's Superman And Me

As the text progresses into the middle of the story, Alexie talks about how he finds knowledge as a step toward success rather than a burden by using a didactic tone. Alexie talks about how he was advanced in reading at a young age while his other classmates were struggling. You learn this when he said “...little Indian boy teaches himself how to read at an early age... when other children are struggling through...”(Alexie). This shows that he was steps closer to success than them. Later on, Alexie says, “We were Indian children who were expected to be stupid. Most lived up to those expectations...”(Alexie). Alexie starts to explain as to what path was provided for these Indian children. Although there was this certain path for these Indian children, Alexie refuses to set himself up for failure. This can be seen when he says, “...we were expected to fail...I refused to fail. I was smart...I was lucky...I loved...books...I also knew love had only one purpose. I was trying to save my life...”(Alexie). He knew he could exceed their expectations and create his own path. Alexie refused to follow the crowd and waste his gift of knowledge.

The documentary presents intrinsic issues facing the child age demographic. The title of the documentary is ‘waiting for superman.’ The title in itself speaks of a sense of hope in an abstract idea that is simply imaginary in nature. The term superman is, in this context, used to describe the education system. The title of the documentary describes the high sense of hope with which children go to school. This high sense of hope is motivated by the ignorance that they harbor as to the actual dynamics of the public school system. The premise should be that no child is left behind. This is with reference to learning in the school system. This theoretical analogy is, however, very far from the actual truth on the ground. The situation is that a lot of children are left behind. An argument can be made from the documentary that all of the children in the public school

Education is something that is often taken for granted in this day and age. Kids these days rebel against going to school all together. In the essays “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie and “Learning to Read and Write” by Frederick Douglass, we learn of two young men eager for knowledge. Both men being minors and growing up in a time many years apart, felt like taking how to read and write into their own hands, and did so with passion. On the road to a education, both Alexie and Douglass discover that education is not only pleasurable, but also painful. Alexie and Douglass both grew up in different times, in different environments, and in different worlds. They both faced different struggles and had different achievements, but they were not all that different. Even though they grew up in different times they both had the same views on how important of education was. They both saw education as freedom and as a way of self-worth even though they achieved their education in different ways. They both had a strong mind and a strong of sense of self-motivation.

Alexie comes across as intelligent when he discusses that he taught himself to read high-level books at a young age. He informs, "A little Indian boy teaches himself to read at an early age and advances quickly. He reads "Grapes of Wrath" in kindergarten when other children are struggling through "Dick and Jane" (Alexie 17). People who are intelligent advance and learn quicker than most. Alexie illustrates how he learned quickly by referring to reading "Grapes of Wrath" while other students struggle with a way simpler book. Additionally, intelligent people can comprehend information quickly. Alexie builds off the idea that his intelligence to comprehend reading is what helped him advance in life at a young age.

However, he does not let this stop him. Alexie teaches himself to read at the age of three. Through an extended metaphor, the author shows that his own life story is very similar to Superman’s. Both are feared because of their extraordinary talents, both face tough obstacles, and both save lives.

Within the short article "superman and me", by Sherman Alexie, info how he learned to read regardless of having very constrained sources on the local American reservation in which he grew up. Alexie begins his story by telling how he learned how to read by using “superman" comic book. Alexie discovered to read by looking at the pictures and assuming what the speak boxes could say primarily based on the illustrations. Alexie mentions that he does not remember the plot of the "superman" comic book he used. That is vital because it stresses the reality that he used a comic book to read because Alexie did not have access to tremendous instructional resources that the privileged white children had.

Superman & Me discusses how important making a difference in Sherman Alexie’s life was to him. He wanted nothing more than to make a mark on the world. Throughout the story, Alexie describes how books and reading majorly influenced his view point on education and learning. The children he grew up with were not like him. While outside of their learning environment, they had the ability to tell elaborate stories or memorize innumerable “powwow songs,” but in the classroom, they were submissive and struggled with reading. Alexie refused to be like these students. Later in his life, he became a writer; he visits Indian schools, like his own, and teaches them creative writing. Sherman Alexie was so passionate about breaking the stereotype in his

“I am smart. I am arrogant. I am lucky.” Wise words from a Spokane Indian boy named Sherman Alexie, who was not provided the same educational rights and opportunities as most Americans. He was born in Washington state on a Spokane reservation. People expected him to be dumb just because he was an Indian. Well that wasn't the case. He refused to be the stereotype Indian that society labeled him as. So at the age of three he taught himself how to read and write by analyzing a superman comic book. He faced tons of difficulties when trying to get his education. Difficulties such as teachers on the reservation refusing to teach him at the level he could learn at. Alexie was persuasive when informing his target audience that Indians should

As a child, many viewed Superman as a savior who assisted in times of difficulty. Because the children mentioned in the documentary were suffering from hardships due to a lack of essential education, especially at such a young age, the title “Waiting for Superman” suits the

Having the courage to break away from a stereotype shows strength and determination that not all people have. In Sherman Alexie’s “Superman and Me” and Alma Lus Villanueva’s “Crazy Courage”, we hear two different tales of the courage it took to breakaway from societies stereotypes with individual power. A little boy who learns to read because he loves his father and he also loves to read and another man who stands up for himself by revealing his true nature to his peers, and a man who reveals his true self to his peers.

Sherman Alexie demonstrates the influence that negative expectations can have upon people, and the importance of growing beyond those expectations in his article, “Superman and Me”, published in the Los Angeles Times. Through personal experience, he is able to illustrate how the hopeless mentality among his people thrived and tried to deter those who thought and lived differently. He utilizes repetition to emphasize the importance of his actions when he “refused to fail”, deciding to be relentless in his pursuit of knowledge despite the criticism from others. (496) Alexie accurately portrays how there will always be a mentality that prevails in our “paragraph” or corner of society, that may hinder people from living differently and reaching

No one knew I could actually read. They always thought that because I didn’t know enough English, I probably didn’t know what I was reading. I was expected to be quiet, so I always kept that way. Nowadays, I have made it further than the classmates that used to know how to read more than me, and the ones that used to judge me. Alexie always felt this way, because of where he came from.

Inspired by his father, Alexie took to reading at a young age. He taught himself how to read through comic books; by looking at a picture and explaining in his own words what is happening. If it weren’t for his father’s love of reading, I think there is a good chance Alexie’s life may have turned out completely different. He most likely would not have had access to all of the reading material throughout his childhood, and most importantly, the Superman comic book which began

This author will argue that environment, including educator and educators, are the impediments to Johnny’s ability to develop the perception, attention, memory, emotions, language, deciding, thinking, and reasoning required to read a the applicable and age-appropriate Lexile level. I see such research as the framework for developing online and digital pedagogy learning tools and curriculum specifically targeted toward troubled disadvantaged kids. In addition, the program offers an accelerated path, which at my age, is extremely attractive.

Sherman Alexie, in the essay, “Superman and Me”, argues that as a minority, he was at a disadvantage in the education system and struggled to find footing. The author supports his argument by illustrating his early childhood life and educational struggles in detail. Alexie’s purpose is to alert teachers of the troubles that minorities go through, so that society inserts equity into the education system.