Sherman Alexie Superman Hero

Sherman Alexie was an exceptionally smart boy. He was able to piece together the puzzle of reading without knowing the end result. All he wanted to do was love the same thing his father loved, and it just so happened to be books. He was able to decode the words in his Superman comic book with the help of images and common sense. The children on the Indian reserve he grew up on held onto the thought that they did not need to work hard towards the goal of learning things in school, but that they would be picked up by the other people around them therefore making it an endless cycle. This is where Alexie comes in. His goal is to save the children’s lives like his reading saved his. Alexie’s father broke the regular boundary, when he went to a Catholic school and read his books, that was set around them. Sherman drives to be like his father. He shows this by teaching himself to read books and love them like his father did. During school he also stepped over the border line when he wanted to answer questions despite what his classmates thought. Even as an adult, he teaches the children in Indian reserves to step over the line by writing and learning. The more people that crossed that line, the more there would be in the future …show more content…
The hero in this story for Sherman Alexie, is Superman. Mainly the specific Superman comic book that helped him to learn. But the hero for the children in the Indian reservations that he teaches at, would be him. First he saves his own life with reading. Then he tries to do the same with the children he teaches. They may not want him to teach reading and writing because they have not yet seen what it can help them with. They do not understand that it will save them in the long run. The title Superman and Me implies that the author sees that Superman helped him in his journey, however, it may also imply that they are both heroes in their own