A Response to “How to Fight Monsters”
In Sherman Alexie’s “How to Fight Monsters”, Arnold Spirit, Jr., an Indian teenager from a nearby Reservation, embarks on a self-induced journey of pain; for he just entered public high school in a very racist town. Even though the story concludes itself in just three short pages, within these pages, Junior does manage to partake in creating some rather humorous moments and scenarios; however, Junior, most likely, does not find living out such scenarios quite as humorous as one would while reading them in this story. Nevertheless, parts that stand out in the story due to their sheer enjoyability include the following: Junior’s reaction to the first white women he’d ever met, the secretary, thinking she
In Sherman Alexie’s “How to Fight Monsters”, Arnold Spirit, Jr., an Indian teenager from a nearby Reservation, embarks on a self-induced journey of pain; for he just entered public high school in a very racist town. Even though the story concludes itself in just three short pages, within these pages, Junior does manage to partake in creating some rather humorous moments and scenarios; however, Junior, most likely, does not find living out such scenarios quite as humorous as one would while reading them in this story. Nevertheless, parts that stand out in the story due to their sheer enjoyability include the following: Junior’s reaction to the first white women he’d ever met, the secretary, thinking she