What you Pawn I Will Redeem, is a story that starts off showing a Native American by the name of Jackson Jackson who has been homeless for the last six years in Seattle. Jackson Jackson illustrates the struggle of being homeless alcoholic, an addiction that gets the best of him, who seems destined to fail on his journey to get his grandmothers regalia back in his family’s possession. The author, Sherman Alexie, uses Jackson Jackson’s character development and his internal conflict with alcoholism to help tell the story of a homeless Native American.
The story starts off with Jackson Jackson giving a brief description of his background. He is a “Spokane Indian boy” and his people have live within a hundred mile radius of Spokane, Washington …show more content…
Eventually he gets to where he is at the present, roaming the streets with his troops Rose of Sharon and Junior. After giving some background of his companions, Jackson Jackson says they are in Pike Place Market negotiating, asking people for money, and they get about five dollars to buy some alcohol. On their way to 7-Eleven, Jackson Jackson notices a pawnshop, which he has never seen before, and sees his grandmother’s regalia hanging in the window. Junior asks if Jackson is sure but Jackson had only seen the regalia in pictures and was not too certain. Although stolen fifty years ago, it had all of the same colored feathers and beads his family sewed into their powwow regalia. Finally they go into the pawn shop to investigate …show more content…
Jackson is a Native American who let his addiction of alcohol basically ruin his life. Alexie goes in depth of Jackson Jackson’s life before the story begins. Jackson Jackson was a college dropout who had a bunch of hard working blue collar jobs. He was married a few time and had two or three children (he thinks). Alexie gives the reader this information to show what his life was like before he was homeless. It is obvious to tell throughout the story that alcohol ruined his previous life and it runs current.
Alexie also shows Jackson’s kind heart. When he won a hundred dollars on the scratch off ticket, he gave twenty dollars of it to the store clerk Mary. Most people who are in Jackson Jackson’s position would never give twenty dollars away after the just won it. Despite being an alcoholic, Jackson Jackson buys drinks for everyone in the bar. He really should not have bought alcohol with the money, but when he did go to the bar, he bought everyone a drink. Alexie displays Jackson’s selflessness when he will give even when he really has nothing himself. Alexie provides the reader a great development of Jackson
The story starts off with Jackson Jackson giving a brief description of his background. He is a “Spokane Indian boy” and his people have live within a hundred mile radius of Spokane, Washington …show more content…
Eventually he gets to where he is at the present, roaming the streets with his troops Rose of Sharon and Junior. After giving some background of his companions, Jackson Jackson says they are in Pike Place Market negotiating, asking people for money, and they get about five dollars to buy some alcohol. On their way to 7-Eleven, Jackson Jackson notices a pawnshop, which he has never seen before, and sees his grandmother’s regalia hanging in the window. Junior asks if Jackson is sure but Jackson had only seen the regalia in pictures and was not too certain. Although stolen fifty years ago, it had all of the same colored feathers and beads his family sewed into their powwow regalia. Finally they go into the pawn shop to investigate …show more content…
Jackson is a Native American who let his addiction of alcohol basically ruin his life. Alexie goes in depth of Jackson Jackson’s life before the story begins. Jackson Jackson was a college dropout who had a bunch of hard working blue collar jobs. He was married a few time and had two or three children (he thinks). Alexie gives the reader this information to show what his life was like before he was homeless. It is obvious to tell throughout the story that alcohol ruined his previous life and it runs current.
Alexie also shows Jackson’s kind heart. When he won a hundred dollars on the scratch off ticket, he gave twenty dollars of it to the store clerk Mary. Most people who are in Jackson Jackson’s position would never give twenty dollars away after the just won it. Despite being an alcoholic, Jackson Jackson buys drinks for everyone in the bar. He really should not have bought alcohol with the money, but when he did go to the bar, he bought everyone a drink. Alexie displays Jackson’s selflessness when he will give even when he really has nothing himself. Alexie provides the reader a great development of Jackson