The Smoke Signals By Chris Eyre

In the excerpt of the book "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr, the author uses the literary element of imagery in order to strengthen the main idea that blind people view the world in a different and unique way. This view is one that people with sight cannot understand nor picture. Doerr implements this element when describing how a blind person views the world. When describing how they view color and objects it sets an image in the readers mind to give them the ability to relate and to better understand the blind character. By understanding a sliver of how a blind person views the world the readers form a vision of their own. The Author uses imagery when describing how the character identifies certain objects and distinguishes one object from another.

“Dear John Wayne” by Louise Erdrich is about the stereotype of the Native American, being a savage race on film and how the Native Americans watching the film react to those stereotypes.

Garrett Morgan, an inventor of the 20th century, saved many lives with his inventions. The Scope article, “The Fire Breather”, Informational text, “Could You Be the Next Garrett Morgan?” and the Discovery ED video “Garrett Morgan” all give good evidence on Garrett's most remarkable inventions and his perseverance.

Native Americans express their voice in films by incorporating their history, culture and traditions for Indigenous purpose. These independent cinema efforts are produced by filmmakers who want to tell a story about their tribes around the world and educate the younger generations. Zacharias Kunuk, filmmaker of Antantarjuat; The Fast Runner and Journals of Knud Rasmussen, “compels non-Inuit spectators to think differently, not only about what constitutes indigenous content in films and more conventional representations of Native Americans in cinematic history, but also about indigenous visual Aesthetics” (Raheji 1168).

Native Americans are mostly judged by their addictions and the battles they fought. They are not normally judged by the hardships they had to face. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian and Smoke Signals show that these struggles are real. In his book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, and his movie, Smoke Signals, Sherman Alexie wrote about the challenges of being a Native American. Diary and Smoke Signals are similar because they both showed many family problems throughout the story lines. Also, they are similar in that the families faced difficulty with alcohol addiction. They differ because in Diary, the main character, Junior, adapts to his new school that has all white students while in Smoke Signals, Victor tries not to interact with anyone outside his race.

In the movie Smoke Signals by Sherman Alexie; one of the main characters is Thomas Builds-the-fire. It all begins around three in the morning when his parents held the biggest house barbecue for the entire world to see. Thomas Builds-the-fire, he is the child of fire and ashes. Nevertheless, he never had the opportunity to meet his parents from then on. In addition, he lives, talks, and acts like his grandma. Thomas Builds-the-fire has a strong soul and the potential to give hands when needed.

My goal with my research is to look into the resistance of both the Jewish people and the others in European society who assisted in Jewish escapes. The perceived image of the Jews during the Holocaust is of “lambs to the slaughter.” The pictured painted of the rest of European society is one of either knowing accomplices or silent spectators. The Jewish people had many forms of resistance, some small and some large. While many of their neighbors were silent spectators, but many people were actively resisting the tyrannical Nazi government by assisting Jewish escapes. Each of these individuals risked their lives and the lives of their families and friends to aid these hunted individuals. They all deserve to have their stories heard and honored. In a time of complete chaos and destruction many people would not have the ability or fortitude to save the life of another person. The people that I will discuss in this paper were not only able to take that step, but put themselves and their families in real and eminent danger for the life, at times, of a complete stranger.

The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey is a first person, fiction book about a girl trying to survive during an alien attack. The book switches from Cassie’s point of view to Zombie’s throughout the story, but always remains in first person. The main character of the book is Cassie Sullivan. In the beginning of the book Cassie explains the first, second, and third waves of the Other’s attack. She also explains that the silencers, who are aliens that look exactly like humans, have come to shoot, and annihilate the rest of the human race. The humans who are left consider this the fourth wave. The conflict of the book begins when Cassie’s little brother was taken by the Others, her father was killed, and she was left alone to find her brother. Because the Other’s look like humans Cassie is constantly facing the struggle of who to trust, especially when she is wounded, and Evan finds her.

With horrifying details and graphic evidence that could scare even the toughest of people, Richard Preston tells the story of any American’s worst nightmare in his nonfiction novel; The Hot Zone. The words on the cover, “A Terrifying True Story”, make it more than clear to the reader that what they are about to read are some true facts that most would be hesitant to believe.

Burning Emotions The film Smoke Signals, screen written by Sherman Alexie, shows how the characters change throughout the movie and it progresses to the idea that there is a transformative nature in fire. There are numerous plot events in the film Smoke Signals in which fire changes the characters persona. More specifically the different events involving fire that occur are a Fourth of July fire and a fire in which Suzy Song burns down the trailer of Arnold. The screen writer uses these fires to progress the characters personas throughout the movie changing them from pillars of flame to pillars of ash and vice versa.

The book’s name is “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.” by Caitlin Doughty. It is about author 's work experience in the crematory, and the awareness and cognition of death. Caitlin mentioned that she works in a crematorium because she wanted to overcome the fear of death. Because when she was eight years old at Windward Mall, she saw a little girl climb up to where the escalator met the second-story railing, then she tipped over the edge and fell thirty feet, landing face-first on a laminate counter with a sickening thud (Caitlin 29). So, she lost control of death. Maybe people fear of death because they experience some frightening things, no matter in real life or virtual.

In this movie, one may observe the different attitudes that Americans had towards Indians. The Indians were those unconquered people to the west and the almighty brave, Mountain Man went there, “forgetting all the troubles he knew,” and away from civilization. The mountain man is going in search of adventure but as this “adventure” starts he finds that his survival skills are not helping him since he cant even fish and as he is seen by an Indian, who watches him at his attempt to fish, he start respecting them. The view that civilization had given him of the west changes and so does he. Civilization soon becomes just something that exists “down there.”

Some people believe revenge is key to getting what they want, at least that is what these girls believe. Everyone is hurt at least once in their lifetime and they become more and more hurt every time they think about it. Many people think revenge can solve their problems but, they do not think about the consequences that come with it. When you deliver revenge on someone you can have a positive outcome or negative. In the story Burn for Burn by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian, the reader learns what happens when you are wishing revenge on someone.

Sometimes late at night, we may be thinking of some good memories we’ve created in our existence. Usually, they come with nostalgia and an appreciation for the marvels of life. However, more often than that, we can’t help but think about those embarrassing moments we just cannot forget. We become helpless to escape the mistakes our minds force us to relive. However, like good memories, remembering our blunders can be beneficial. The Last Cigarette On Earth is a book of poems written by Benjamin Alire Saenz. It is composed of poems that can be interpreted to be about religion, sexuality, and race. A common theme that can be derived from the nostalgic tone in Benjamin Saenz’s book of poems The Last Cigarette On Earth is that regrets cloud our

Campells typical hero sequence holds truth in Smoke Signals as well. Victor’s unusual birth in Smoke Signals is symbolic; he is saved from a tragic house fire as a young baby. This house fire is the same event that drives his father away from the Coeur d 'Alene Indian Reservation. Inevitably this later requires Victor to leave home and confront his ego while retrieving his father’s remains.