Superman And Me By Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie grew up on an Indian reservation. Alexie was lucky. His father loved to read. This encouraged Alexie as a young child to look at books. His first experience was with a Superman comic book. He would look at the pictures and say what the pictures represented. Thus, he eventually was able to actually read the words. In "Superman and Me," Alexie's claim declares that reading can make a difference in a person's life. "I refused to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant. Iwas lucky

essays, “Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie and “An Indian Father’s Plea” by Medicine Grizzlybear Lake, are written by American Indian men with different perspectives on the education system within and outside of the Indian reservation. The men are fighting for survival, Alexie for himself, while Lake is fighting for equal opportunity and the future survival of his five year old son, Wind-Wolf. Racism has great effect on how both Indian men gain access to a proper education. Alexie says

Superman Yet he is so much like all of us in different ways so you might call us superheroes in disguise. You probably past hundreds every day you just do not realize. One superhero is an Indian boy that lived in a reservation in america that became an author his name is Sherman Alexie. Sherman Alexie is a author of popular book, “Superman and Me”. In this text he uses an extended metaphor throughout the whole text that compares how Superman and Alexie are alike.they are alike in so many ways

children. These impacts constantly reveal altered outcomes. In the essay “Superman and Me,” a Native American boy is empowered by his heritage to break through stereotypes of intelligence. Likewise, “Stone Soup” presents a single mother who breaks through stereotypes to see her differences as a normality. Although both of these authors are faced with harsh situations, these essays lead to unlikely empowerment in the end. Whereas Alexie perceives pride as encouraging others to look past stereotypes of race

Throughout literature many pieces of work can be compared and contrasted to each other. In “Superman and Me,” Sherman Alexie discusses the challenges he faced as a young Indian adult, who found his passion of reading at an early age, living on the Spokane Indian Reservation. He challenged the stereotype of the young Indian students who were thought to be uneducated while living on a reservation. Likewise, in the excerpt from The Hunger of Memory, Richard Rodriguez shares his similar experience of

       In the short story “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and me by Sherman Alexie is a powerful story of how Sherman lived in the Indian Reservation and dealt with non Indians against his religious belief of smarts. Sherman Alexie persuades his readers that reading and writing saves lives. I found everything that occurred in this short story as mystery of even an unsolved case on why reading and writing was the lifeline for Alexie. He writes his essay in attempts to prove that reading and

a Native American boy on a reservation, Sherman Alexie was not expected to succeed outside of his reservation home. The expectations for Native American children were not very high, but Alexie burst out of the stereotype and expectations put by white men. Young Native Americans were not expected to overcome their stereotypes and were forced to succumb to low levels of reading and writing “he was expected to fail in a non-Indian world” (Alexie 3), but Alexie was born with a passion for reading and

with the opportunity for a decent education. Sherman Alexie brings this fact to the reader’s attention on a personal level in his short story “Superman and Me”. This story follows a young Indian boy into his struggle of illiteracy and acceptance from his peers and friends. Alexie was able to focus the reader’s attention and convey much of his feelings into his written words because the story was about him and his own personal experiences. “Superman and Me” projects a message to the reader, that when

opportunity, and their zip code. In the article “Superman and Me”, by Sherman Alexie, Alexie benefits from pursuing the American dream by being able to break free from the stereotypes brand that was given to his nationality by making a name for himself and becoming successful. Alexie also used his accomplishments as a tool to help the younger generations not fall into the stereotypes and overcome the segregation that was being portrayed against the Indians. Alexie was just a kid that was intelligent and people

Jordon Kornegay Professor McGlothin English 1050 October 6, 2014 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