Superman And Me By Sherman Alexie

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'Superman and Me' by Sherman Alexie is an inspiring bibliography about Sherman living on an Indian reservation in Washington state. He taught himself how to read using a Superman comic as a young boy. I admired that he chose a different life of educational success as apposed to most of the Indian children who did not want to learn at school. When he became a writer and went back to the Indian reservations to teach how to read and write. In my second reading, I noticed if it weren't for his father getting a proper education when he was a young boy, he might not have had the drive to learn the way he did in his early

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