Sherman Alexie Indian Education Analysis

Sharing dark skin doesn’t necessarily make two men brothers.- Sherman Alexie
This quote is from the story indian education. Mr.Sherman Alexie is an indian man who was a poet, fiction writer and filmmaker. He went through alot in his life that is why he wrote about in a short story. So in this essay, I will be discussing my experiences growing up, sherman alexie’s experiences in “ Indian education” and how they are similar and different. In first grade I got in trouble a lot. My mom or grandma would come up to the school. The teacher was probably scared of me and Ajeya. I didn’t stay at that school very long though. I left in the the middle of that school to go to a different school during the first grade. In seventh grade was the first time i ever been/ went to an all girl school. I was shy at first but then as I got to know everyone I started to become me. I made friends that I still call friends till this very day. A lot of drama happened , girls fought, argued, and ect. I was never in the drama but I knew a lot about what was going on. Now my ninth grade year is this year. I am still at an all girl school but this time it is a middle school and a high school put in one. My year is going okay …show more content…
But I think his experience was different from mines because I went to a school where the kids looked like me. He went to a school for basically white kids only so no one looked like him at all. He is indian so people treated him differently at the schools he went to in his life. They thought he did all of the things indians did on the reservation like drink and stuff. I am just a normal black girl. My school life was okay no one really discriminated me at school like they did him. He went to a coed school and I go to an all girl school. So his school experiences was way different from mines. I noticed we had more differences than comparisons when it comes to our school