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Sherman Alexie
In "Indian Education," Sherman Alexie presents a chronological description of Victor, a young Native American living on a reservation in Washington. The story describes Victor's schooling from...
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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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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
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
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 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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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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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
Sherman Alexie is a well-known American Indian author, poet, and filmmaker. While it's unclear which of his essays you are referring to here, he does mention the significance of hair in many of his...
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Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie's essay "Superman and Me" is primarily written in the narrative style. The narrative style of writing is used to tell a story. Sherman Alexie is a self-proclaimed storyteller. In an...
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Sherman Alexie
A critical appreciation of a poem is a critical (close) reading of a poem. It does not mean to criticize the poem. Rather, a critical appreciation will examine a poem's meaning, themes, mood, tone,...
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Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie depicts the relationship between Native Americans and white Americans as tentative at best and frequently distrustful and even hostile. Both sides often appear to have preconceived...
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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
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 a particularly ironic passage in "Indian Education" Alexie remembers the "sweet, almost innocent choices" that Indian boys were forced to make, such as that between sniffing glue or playing...
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If I remember correctly, Indian Education takes each year of school and tells the story of a young boy longing for a self-identity. What seems to clash here is that it feels very biographical and...
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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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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
Sherman Alexie is a Native American writer from the Spokane, Washington area. He had some challenges as a child that kept him from taking part in some traditional kids' activities, like sports. One...
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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
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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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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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 is...
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Sherman Alexie
At eNotes we can't answer your homework questions for you, but I will try and offer some ideas which will hopefully help you complete the task for yourself. One key image in the poem is from the...
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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
Sherman Alexie grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservations in Washington. His background is important in understanding his poem, “Crow Testament.” In this poem, Alexie uses foreshadowing,...
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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
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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If your thesis is for a critical analysis essay, make a specific claim about a technique used in the poem and its effect. Here are some examples that you could imitate for their wording and...
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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
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
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...
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Sherman Alexie
I would say that one particular stylistic similarity between both authors is their articulation of what it means to be "different" in a particular social setting. Both authors are animated by a...
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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
This is the story of William, a Spokane Indian salesman who works for a think tank and travels around the USA frequently on business trips. The story is set in the immediate aftermath of the...
