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In Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Junior and the reservation are faced with isolation by both the government and other communities because of racial stereotypes. Ever since 1851, reservation have held indians, and have kept them from knowing what's beyond their borders. Junior and his whole reservation suffer from being held up in these reservations, not knowing what the first step is to free themselves and leave the reservation and be successful. Fortunately,…

Robert Arthur Alexie writes of hard hitting, serious issues that Aboriginal communities across Canada face but that are rarely spoken of in Porcupines and China Dolls . Alexie writes with blunt honestly aimed at an older audience who can handle the frank discussions of alcoholism, domestic violence and sex, both consensual and not. While the pace lags at the beginning it does successfully built the bleak world of the novel and the people who reside in it. Hard hitting topics will also leave the…

Russell Charles Means was an American activist who solely focused on equal rights of Native Americans. He was born in South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation in 1939. He was part of the silent generation, even though he was anything but silent. As Robert (2015) states, “Russell’s commitment to uplift the plight of his people escalated when he served as director of Cleveland’s American Indian Center.” As a director, it was there where he met Dennis Banks, co-founder of the American Indian Movement…

himself in a situation where he struggles with many conflicts to recover his grandmother’s stolen regalia. He becomes very persistent in fulfilling this mission on his own despite the adverse circumstances he has to deal with. The author of this story, Sherman Alexie, created the character of Jackson Jackson with a few similarities between them. They are both Spokane Indians and have dealt with alcohol abuse. Personal life events were used to overcome their internal conflict. Jackson Jackson is…

Imagine inhabiting a piece of land long enough for you to live and experience the same culture and life as your ancestors. To inhabit a place that you not only admire but that you also worship, just for it to be taken from you out of nowhere by people who look at the land you call home as a way to get money. Tribe explores history along with anthropology and psychological perspectives. Sebastian Junger examines a sufficient number of concepts related to the term “tribe,” from Native American…

In the poem How to Write the Great American Indian Novel, Sherman Alexie writes about the necessities when writing an “American Indian” novel. The poem specifically states everything the novel is supposed to have, and how the characters are supposed to look (with few exceptions). The irony with this poem is the more American than Indian vision of the novel. As well as worshipping white culture and caucasian skin or ‘white people’ instead of the Native side of the ‘Indian American.’ Alexie’s poem…

This story “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me was written by author, Sher,man Alexie and was copyrighted in 1997. The storyline of Superman and Me explains Alexia’s life as an Indian boy who overcame various situations in his ability to read and write which made him become who he is today. This essay talks about how this indian boy first learned how to read and what his intelligence as a young indian boy and Alexie teaching ways to learn creative writing to other indian kids. In…

In 1992, Poet Sherman Alexie, wrote the poem titled. “Evolution”. “Evolution” starts with a mention of a pawn shop on the reservation across the border from the liquor store”(1-2). In the first verse of “Evolution”, “Buffalo Bill opens a pawnshop on the reservation”(1). Buffalo Bill, born as William Frederick Cody, was an American buffalo hunter, and an Indian fighter. He had a reputation for accurate marksmanship, knowledge of Indian ways, and endurance(Encyclopaedia Britannica,2017). Buffalo…

What separates an individual from others is their past, their history, and their experiences. So, while other people can have similar experiences or pasts, what makes them unique is how they let what happened to them shape their beliefs and view of the world. In his short stories “The Drug Called Tradition” and “Crazy Horse Dreams” within the novel The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight In Heaven, Alexie explores the idea of how a person's past influences them. Victor, the narrator in both short…

In “The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time Indian” the author, Sherman Alexie, develops characters through his use of figurative language. Alexie’s use of figurative language has a considerable impact on characterization and development of a character's personality and background. Alexie uses similes to develop characters’ background and provide the readers an image of a character in the past. Arnold Spirit says, “I started wearing glasses when I was three, so I ran around the rez looking…