Critical Analysis Of Indian Education By Sherman Alexie

In my second critical reading exercise I wrote more than my last one. I included three paragraphs and I started off my assignment with, “In Sherman Alexie’s short story, “Indian Education”, includes many concepts of the genre conventions, such as being alienated from his society and feeling left alone to solve his own problems. However, Alexie also modified some genre conventions such as conflict of generations”. This introduction is different from my last critical reading assignment because this time I included the title of the reading and had a clear thesis that maps what I will be discussing in my next paragraphs. The second and third body paragraph talked about a genre convention that was used/modified in the short story, and I ended that paragraph with what message that can be interpreted by using/modifying that genre convention. I feel like this critical reading exercise is much more in depth and clearer than my last critical reading assignment by having a clear …show more content…
I liked that my ideas were able to flow freely from my brain to my hands. I did not have to think about analysis because I was writing a story, however, the difficult part was trying to mimic Alexie’s style from “Indian Education”. I followed the structure of naming each chapters the grade that I was in and I focused on an event that was important to me that I wanted to express in writing. Writing a story was fun because it did not feel like I was working on a school assignment, instead it felt like I was telling another person a story about parts of my life. Reading “Indian Education” gave me a great insight on feeling like you are being alienated, this helped me in the RIP assignment because it triggered a recent moment in my life where I felt like I was alone. Therefore, I felt like it was easy to relate to the short story and it made it easier to write the RIP