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Sherman Alexie
The three short stories—Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," Sherman Alexie's "Indian Education," and Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"—all deal with tradition. Tradition...
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Sherman Alexie
Alexie declares "a smart Indian is a dangerous person, widely feared and ridiculed by Indians and non-Indians alike" to explain why, in his opinion, the Indians he lived with on the Spokane...
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Sherman Alexie
Alexie cites his grasp of the paragraph as his way of organizing information in his mind: I realized that a paragraph was a fence that held words. The words inside a paragraph worked together for...
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Sherman Alexie
Throughout the story "Indian Education," there is only one mention of the narrator's cousin, Steven Ford, but the idea of this character is present throughout the narrative. When in fifth grade,...
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Sherman Alexie
In 1956, Richard Wilbur wrote his often-anthologized poem “Love calls us to the things of this world.” In this poem, a sleeper rouses, and in the state halfway between slumber and wakefulness,...
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Sherman Alexie
In the beginning of Sherman Alexie's book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Junior lives and goes to school on the Spokane reservation. Like most things on "The Rez," Junior's...
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Sherman Alexie
When discussing style, I find the most useful literary elements you must look at are the following: point-of-view, narrative presence, diction, and figurative language. In "Every Little Hurricane,"...
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Sherman Alexie
In the conclusion to his essay "Superman and Me," Sherman Alexie states that through teaching reading and writing he hopes to save Native American lives. Throughout the essay, Alexie discusses the...
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Sherman Alexie
Generally, it's not a bad idea to go into every piece of literature, especially those written in first-person point-of-view, with the belief that the narrator is unreliable. Since Sherman Alexie's...
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Sherman Alexie
The opening paragraph of the story "Superman and Me" is carefully developed, and while it includes quite a bit of information about Alexie and about the story, it does not include a full summary of...
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Sherman Alexie
A first step to answering a question like this is to look at the title of the story. Titles offer clues as to what a narrative is about, and hence what purpose the author has in writing it. Titles...
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Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie is a contemporary Native American writer from the state of Washington. In 1993 in published his first book, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, which won the...
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Sherman Alexie
Superman and Me is an autobiographical indictment of the moral and intellectual destruction inflicted on the Native American population by European interlopers. Sherman Alexie doesn’t come right...
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Sherman Alexie
In her work on Native American Writers, Susan Brill describes Alexie Sherman's writing as a mix of ...pain and humor, hunger and survival, love and anger, broken treaties Manifest Destiny,...
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Alexie constructs Junior's narrative as one where nearly every character impacts Junior's life. Every character has some type of altering impact on his life and his being. Each character can have...
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Sherman Alexie
This story is about exploitation and grief, but it's also about fortitude. It recounts the abuses to Native Americans in the twentieth century in a humorous way. The story is about a homeless man...
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Sylvia Plath
One of my favourite poems by Sherman Alexie is "How to Write the Great American Indian Novel." In this poem, the speaker bitterly challenges stereotypical notions of what it is to be American...
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
I think that the guilt of Mr. P is challenging. Certainly, he admits that the attitude with which he approached teaching Native Americans early on in his career was wrong. Certainly, Mr. P...
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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...
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What You Pawn I Will Redeem
I would think that the ending is a type of epiphany. The lack of emotional connection that had defined Jackson for so long in the narrative is interrupted by the end. At the moment he is dancing...
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Sherman Alexie
You could actually argue that there are several acts of kindness in this impressive short story. However, the most significant comes at the end of the tale, when Jackson returns to the pawn shop...
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Sherman Alexie
Let us remember that an epiphany is defined as a moment of sudden insight experienced by a character when they realise something about who they are or their own identity. We can see that Jackson,...
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Sherman Alexie
Out of context, the following quote has a very defined meaning: Believe me, everything looks like a noose if you stare at it long enough. What this quote means is that certain points in a...
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Sherman Alexie
If you take a look at the text of the eighth grade portion, Alexie's character was noticing girls at the "white school" he now attended worked so hard to keep skinny that they would starve...
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Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie, "a Spokane Indian boy living with his family on the Spokane Indian Reservation in eastern Washington state," was able to teach himself to read at the age of three. Although his...
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Sherman Alexie
What an interesting question! Two authors with very distinct styles, indeed. I think that both authors express similar IDEAS and THEMES, but the way they deliver these ideas (another part of style)...
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Sherman Alexie
In Sherman Alexie's "Indian Education," bigotry and prejudice by whites and others clash against Native Americans and their values. I use the term Native Americans for lack of a better term....
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Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie's stories about Native Americans are extremely important to the discourse. The reality is that the voice of adolescent Native Americans is missing from the dialogue of identity...
