In Sherman Alexxie’s “The joys of Reading and Writing : Superman and Me” the three traits that inspired Alexxies to read and write is his curiosity , enthusiasm and his love. Alexis’s shows eagerness throughout the story with such sentence like “I refuse to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant.”. Another characteristic Alexxies take on is his concern with “I began to think of everything in terms of paragraphs ”. Further into the story, he says “ I read books late into the night ,until I couldn’t keep my eyes open” this represents the passion he had for reading as a “Spokane Indian boy”.
In “the joys of reading and writing” alexxies had a great value of enthusiasm towards reading as a poor Indian boy. He shows this value in the story by stating …show more content…
Growing up on a Indian reservation with many other Indians living off of paychecks and government giving food inspired him to read as a young child , alexxies knew even at a young age that “Indians were expected to be stupid”, but Alexxies had a passion towards books, he would read the words from the bookstores to the words of an auto repair manual, he knew he didn’t want to become the stereotype of most Indians , Alexxies says “As Indian children we were expected to fail. Those who failed were ceremonially accept by other Indians and appropriately pitied by non-Indians” (36). Alexxies didn’t want to become apart of such a stereotype. Alexxies refused to fail . Alexxies wanted to save his life. As he lives his life reading books and becoming a successful writer , alexxies is still coonpassionate towards the Indian community and know the struggles they face , he says “I visit the schools as often as possible. The Indian kids crowd the I. Many writing their own poems , short stories and novels.”(36) alexxies is joyful to see the children are following in his footsteps, but even though those children are eager to learn . There Are the other children alexxies states “there are the sullen and already defeated Indian kids who sit in the back rows and ignore me with theatrical precision. They’re notebooks are empty . They carry neither pencil or paper they stare out the window. They refuse and resist” (37) this however doesn’t stop alexxies from saving these children. Alexxies repeats “ books , book” to the defeated children who look out the window. He throws himself at them in hopes of bringing light to theses children who need help, he wants to save their
In “the joys of reading and writing” alexxies had a great value of enthusiasm towards reading as a poor Indian boy. He shows this value in the story by stating …show more content…
Growing up on a Indian reservation with many other Indians living off of paychecks and government giving food inspired him to read as a young child , alexxies knew even at a young age that “Indians were expected to be stupid”, but Alexxies had a passion towards books, he would read the words from the bookstores to the words of an auto repair manual, he knew he didn’t want to become the stereotype of most Indians , Alexxies says “As Indian children we were expected to fail. Those who failed were ceremonially accept by other Indians and appropriately pitied by non-Indians” (36). Alexxies didn’t want to become apart of such a stereotype. Alexxies refused to fail . Alexxies wanted to save his life. As he lives his life reading books and becoming a successful writer , alexxies is still coonpassionate towards the Indian community and know the struggles they face , he says “I visit the schools as often as possible. The Indian kids crowd the I. Many writing their own poems , short stories and novels.”(36) alexxies is joyful to see the children are following in his footsteps, but even though those children are eager to learn . There Are the other children alexxies states “there are the sullen and already defeated Indian kids who sit in the back rows and ignore me with theatrical precision. They’re notebooks are empty . They carry neither pencil or paper they stare out the window. They refuse and resist” (37) this however doesn’t stop alexxies from saving these children. Alexxies repeats “ books , book” to the defeated children who look out the window. He throws himself at them in hopes of bringing light to theses children who need help, he wants to save their