Causes Of Lack Of Education By Sherman Alexie

“Those who failed were ceremonially accepted by other Indians and appropriately pitied by non-Indians.”. The author talks about the lack of education in the reservations and how they can change it. This explains the whole point of the article that his culture does not accept knowledge. He hates that this is the case so he wants them to change the way they think. The author expresses the struggle of bad reading and writing education for Indians and how he wants the Indian youth to be more ambitious.
The author was raised in a Indian reservation camp and struggled financially compared to people living outside the reservation. However, the author slowly started to understand the words on a book and everything else around him that had words on it. He taught himself by looking at a Superman comic book . He was looking at all the illustrations on every page and knew that the words were supposed to correspond to the picture. The author also had a dad that loved books and had a filled bookshelf where he could read. He eventually completely understood how to read and write and looked around him and found out he was special. According to the author “he reads Grapes of Wrath in kindergarten when other children are struggling through Dick and Jane.”. Because of this he got bullied by other classmates for answering all the question the teacher asked the class. …show more content…
He refused to fail and read into the night until he could keep his eyes open and not read anymore. He read everywhere in the car, shopping malls, baseball games and basketball games. He had a variety of sources to read because his father would always bring books from the pawnshop. He also read from the newspaper every article he could see and junk mail. He just enjoyed reading he says “I loved those books”. Even though he was bullied he kept being ambitious and wanted to read more. He later on became a knowledgeable