Sherman Alexie's Superman And Me

Directions: The BIG TIDE has been marked for you. Highlight the small tide in each paragraph using the following color code: topic sentence, important evidence, detailed explanation, ending/concluding sentence. Prompt: In Sherman Alexie’s essay “Superman and Me,” Alexie uses an extended metaphor to explain the connection between himself and the fictional character Superman.

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Everyone knows Superman, the world-saving superhero, but he is just fiction. Another man named Sherman Alexie is a world-saver too. He had a tough childhood on an Indian reservation, but he pushed on and is now a world famous author. In one of his essays, “Superman and Me”, he talks about how he is like Superman in many ways. Alexie is very similar to Superman because they both try no matter if they are told to fail, both were “aliens”, and both are saving people’s lives.

Themes for Writers, edited by Lynn Z. Bloom and Louise Z. Smith, Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2014, pp. 63-65.

Have you ever heard about superman or sherman alexie alexie they both have ways that they have ways that they are in common and they both have ways that they are different .Why don't we just go find out how they are different and they are alike so let’s go explore a little about them.

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.

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

Have you ever considered if a literary education is a necessity or a privilege? After reading Sherman Alexie’s article “The Joy of Reading and Writing : Superman and Me” I definitely began thinking on this question. Alexie argues that low socioeconomic groups specifically Spokane Indians need a better literary education to help counter the cultural expectation. I feel Alexie effectively persuades the reader through his personal experiences and by using pathos and ethos.

Sherman Alexie, an Indian author who won numerous awards for his work, had very strong and relatable points in his essay, "The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me". The essay told of how he was born into poverty and strived to become successful even though most of his fellow Indian classmates aimed to be below average in the class room. Alexie refused to fail, and I completely agree with many points that he made in this essay.

The lights flicker on as I sit up lazily in my chair. I try to focus on the television screen as it goes black. I attempt to recollect my thoughts of what I had just seen. Then it came back to me, I was watching another one of those same cheesy videos about someone who had overcome failure to accomplish something great. I didn’t give the video any thought because all I could think about was the 8th-grade boy’s basketball tryouts after school. I was excited about the upcoming season and was eager to join the team. I watched and played basketball every day, so I felt confident in my ability to play the game the right way. As tryouts began I noticed the other kids playing extremely well so I exerted myself to step up my game and play their style.

The heading of sherman Alexie article “Superman and Me” was the main reason I showed interest in the article in the first place. I have a strong interest for superheros so when I saw that Superman was involved I was naturally curious. Sherman tells the story of how he learned to read by trying to read a superman comic book. He does not remember the book in detail, but he does remember one scene where Superman is breaking down a door and Sherman would try to read the book by saying what was happening in the panel. When i read he was from an Indian Reservation I automatically knew that he had faced hardships since he was little, as he exclaimed that his people were expected to be intelligent and stay quiet. Sherman although was determined to

“You gain knowledge, which helps to succeed and survive in this world and nobody will ever take that from you,” my older brother once said to me when I questioned him about literary. Ever since, literary has been vital in my life from Nepal to United States. Though, my literary journey from elementary school to college would not have continued without my brother who inspired and encouraged me through his hard work. I spent a lot of time with him growing up, but importantly, we shared a room in which I witnessed his ruthless desire to succeed in literature, despite the fact that he was a poor learner.

The expectations that others place on us help us form our own expectation of ourselves, we can also choose to form our own goals. Granted that, Sherman Alexie had written a story about how he was inspired to become a writer. Beginning with learning to read on his own, then taking a stand against his society’s beliefs. For that reason, Sherman has encouraged other native American children to be more ambitious. In fact, on Superman and Me Sherman has proven, the ability to learn is not fixed, that it can be changed with someone’s efforts alone. Because he doesn’t believe failure is a permanent state.

Few things motivate students more than chances to connect their learning to the real world, build on their interests, and sharing what they know and can do with a public audience (Cervone, 2010). Once reluctant readers feel secure with their teacher and peers, they are more likely to take risks, try to excel, bring their out-of-school experiences to the discussion, and succeed with new found confidence in literary. Contrary to labels and negative attitudes reluctant readers experience, the person inside the student that is often overlooked, wants to give the teacher what they want. These students should be given the opportunity to independently read books that will draw upon their experiences in class, allow them to cultivate their considerable background knowledge about a topic, enhance their growing strategic repertoire and understanding of how texts work, to make sense of a complex text and to connect that text to other texts they haves read. When expected and equipped to thrive in literacy reluctant readers will enact the new identity as knowledgeable, confident, resilient readers, undaunted in the face of complexity, interested in the outcome of the book, and able to bring a repertoire of text-based, discipline-specific, problem-solving strategies to bear on their reading. Martin Maehr and Larry Braskam say it best, "People do what they believe they can and what they believe is worth doing.”

Books are essential to everyday life. They provide entertainment to the masses. They allow students to learn without teachers. They can contain anything that someone might want to read. Books have shaped my life and made me the person I am today. Just as Sherman Alexie found his calling as a child in books and reading, books taught me things that teachers couldn’t and were there for my learning when no one else could be.