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    In Sherman Alexie’s film, Smoke Signals, Alexie uses different story telling devices to show the importance of forgiveness. Smoke signals provides a new perspective of Native American culture by submerging us into the lives of two Native American boys, Thomas and Victor. The movie begins with a fire on the Fourth of July on the Coer d’Alene reservation in Idaho, Victor’s father Arnold saves Thomas as an infant by throwing him out a window. The movie jumps ten years forward and Victor receives word

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    In his essay, Alexie is showing how his childhood struggles made him the man he’s today, He was told time and time again that he was going to get nowhere in life and would be another stereotypical Indian boy expected to fail. Instead of being weak and caving to peer pressure, Alexie overcame and proved that he was more than just a stereotypical indina boy, Furthermore, His message is to disslove the sterotypes that all indian children are unintelligent as well as to encourage his readers that education

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    Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian captures the life of Junior, a young boy who lives on the Spokane Indian Reservation in poverty. Junior describes the unique experience of killing his own dog because of his family’s financial status through a bitter and helpless tone. This tone appeals to the audience’s feelings of compassion and guilt towards Junior’s life in order to demonstrate what life can genuinely be like in poverty as an Indian on the Reservation. Junior’s

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    Allan Arata-Vega Ms. Meredith AP English August 17, 2016 Reservation Blues Reservation Blues, a novel written by Sherman Alexie meant for anyone with the ability to understand its words to be read. This can be said solely from the purpose, or theme, of the book. That theme is the fact that everything happens for a reason as your desires could stare you in the eye without you realizing. In the beginning of the book, a black man named Robert Johnson walks into the Spokane Indian reservation looking

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    He meant to draw kids into his text and speak to them from the inside of teen culture and language. Through the appreciation of teachers and parent objection this book has been appreciated by thousands of teens who identified with the adult themes. Alexie himself, amidst the controversy, reports visiting classrooms and speaking to readers who personally dealt with poverty, racism, depression and gang warfare. Students have told him stories of abuse, absentee parents, learning disabilities

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    the article, “Superman and Me,” Sherman Alexie talks about how he learned to read on an Indian reservation. He explains that he used every resource he could use. In paragraph 7, he goes on to say when he read all these books. Alexie read them in his free time and when he didn’t really have that much free time. He also uses the quote, “I refused to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant. I was lucky.” That quote means that he felt all those ways toward himself. Alexie says that Indians were thought

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    communities linked by social, economic, religious or blood ties, with a common culture and dialect. In Sherman Alexie’s novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, in the chapter Remembering Arnold list all the tribes that he belongs to. He says, “I was a Spokane Indian. I belonged to that tribe. But I also belonged to the tribe of American immigrants. And the tribe of basketball players . . .” (Alexie 217). His two most important tribes that he identifies with are the tribe of poverty and the

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    The story “Flight Patterns” is a short story in which Sherman Alexie, the author, presents Native American literature which is new around this time in age. William Cline, the main character represents your stereotype native American. This story takes place post 9/11; therefore, the level of security has been increased greatly along with the amount of hostility towards darker skinned people. William describes how he feels out of place because he has all the traits of a native American but he feels

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    When it comes to the topic of Native Americans and tradition most will agree that Sherman Alexie is not the typical Indian writer and that he has in effect isolated himself. Jess Row in his article “Without Reservation”, depicts Sherman Alexie as a storyteller that uses non developing dark humor which in turn portrays his theme among each short story in Blasphemy. I agree with Row’s argument that Alexie maintains a sense of humor throughout his writings but that it develops prematurely. I also believe

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    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

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