Superman And Me Quotes

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In the short story Superman and Me, Sherman Alexie states that ¨I refused to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant. I was lucky.¨ This quote is talking about how he refused to stop trying to not stop trying to learning to read. Superman and Me is a story about a Indian boy named Sherman Alexie growing up on a Indian reservation and how he learned to read. His father was one of the few Indian kids who went to school,he brought home tons of books and one of them was a Superman comic book. Sherman wanted to learn to read so he found a book, a superman comic book.

Alexie said in the story that ¨I refused to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant. I was lucky.¨ In this part in the story is where he really tries his hardest to learn to read and to

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