Both Sherman Alexie’s “Superman and Me” and Eudora Welty’s “Clamorous to Learn” share their experiences and beliefs about how literacy impacted them. “Clamorous to Learn” has a much less “formal” tone compared to “Superman and Me”. While both authors use style elements in their excerpts to connect to the audience in an emotional way “Clamorous to Learn” uses antimetables and metaphors while “Superman and Me” uses repetition.
Sherman Alexie narrates the memories he has as child reading, and how literature influenced him to become a writer to carry on what he learned to his audience. In paragraph seven, he says “I read the books I borrowed from the library. I read the back of cereal boxes. I read the newspaper.” By repeating “I read” it
Sherman Alexie narrates the memories he has as child reading, and how literature influenced him to become a writer to carry on what he learned to his audience. In paragraph seven, he says “I read the books I borrowed from the library. I read the back of cereal boxes. I read the newspaper.” By repeating “I read” it