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I decided to do my book report on the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. This book is about a Native American boy who has to deal with various issues like racism, bullying, loss, health issues, and other more adolescent issues. In the beginning of the book Arnold tells us of his complicated birth and how he was born with too much cerebral fluid. This led to him having an abundance of physical issues as he got older, like poor eyesight, a rather large head, speech impediments

In Sherman Alexie’s “Superman and Me,” he uses rhetorical strategies to achieve his purpose of reaching his audience. He uses analogies to depict something confusing with something simple to understand. Syntax gives the readers an idea of Alexie when he was first learning to read. Finally, his emphasis on anaphora allows the audience to see his relentlessness to keep reading. The use of analogy, syntax, and anaphora persuades his audience to agree with Alexie’s purpose of this essay. Throughout

The Underdog Growing up as 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

The next idea that Sherman Alexie answers is what is like to be an Indian Man in the short story “An Indian Education” it seems as if to be an Indian man is to be caught between two worlds and sometimes picking one over the other. For example, the passage on page 176 states the following: “But on the day I leaned through the basement window of the HUD house and kissed the white girl, I felt the good-byes I was saying to my entire tribe” (176). For the narrator of that section he felt like had to

The sun bakes down across her shoulders as she trudges forward. With every kick, a bit of sand flies upward into Nix's eyes. Her arms burn with exertion and her legs scream with every single step she takes. There's nothing around her but a myriad of sand. Two backpacks are tied on her shoulders, but they feel like boulders, weighing her down. Nix grinds her bicuspids into powder, pure stubbornness giving her the strength to keep going. She wasn't going to die out here; she wouldn't give those monsters

In “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” Sherman Alexie explains life struggling a lot as a Spokane Indian boy. Alexie was always expected to fail and remain “dumb” because he lived in an Indian reservation. He talks about how reading has impacted and influenced his life and how he wants to help others to experience what he did. Sherman Alexie shows to us through his essay that one does not need to be to fluent in reading and writing in order learn. Sherman Alexie shows us this by using

could be a future career for me. Further, when I began to consider recreation and leisure, I had only considered it from a university perspective. That was until my third week at Guelph Lake Commons when I spent a day with the firefighter changing the smoke

When reading multiple stories from different authors it gives the reader a variety of opportunities to connect with the author’s. It helps the reader better understand what they are reading. I personally connected with two different authors’. My personal upbringing had a tremendous impact on mine, Joe Wilkins, and Sherman Alexie life. It has molded me into the person I am today, but has not limited me in the possibilities for the future. My parents were uneducated and never attend college. My father

In the novel Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese, Saul Indian Horse spent his childhood being abused in a residential school. Saul’s own family either died or abandoned him while he was young so Saul was left with a void to fill. The theme of family is explored in Indian Horse through Saul’s desire to find true family. At the residential school, St. Jerome’s, Saul makes a connection with one of the priests, Father Gaston Leboutilier. Later on in his life Saul bonds with Ervin Sift. Finally, Saul finds

Rhetorical Analysis of Sherman Alexie’s “Superman and Me” “Superman and Me” is a personal essay Alexie wrote to talk about his experience of learning to read at a very young age despite living in a poor family and having limited resources available to him. The main topic of the essay discusses the importance of books and defeating the stereotypes put on Native Americans. He was born on an Indian reservation with his three siblings and very little money but, he was lucky in the aspect of having a