M4 Sherman

My Purpose Statement According to Yagelski (2015) ‘Comparative analysis is not just a manner of comparing two things’. The purpose of this paper is to compare, synthesize and rhetorically analyze the following two articles ‘Indian Education by Sherman Alexie and The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara. We will look at the separate ideas, themes or elements into a coherent new idea while comparing the articles. It is an in-depth understanding of the two core reading topics of importance to writer and…

The Film Boys Don’t Cry by Kimberley Pierce 1999 which was based on the true life story of Brandon Teena a transgendered individual. The film depicts the last few weeks of Brandon’s life. This essay will focus on the films ability of queering the spectator which Anat Pick claims the film does in relation to a few important scenes from the movie that being the scene where Brandon and Lana are being intimate near the lake. Therefore the main topic of discussion; is that of queer or queering;…

In “The Summer of Black Widows” by Sherman Alexie, There are many humorous stories from a time when there was a bad spider infestation. There are stories of people opening closets and having spiders fall into their hair, people finding spiders in their cereal boxes, firewood, in their pockets…

In the short story “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” written by Sherman Alexie, Victor Joseph and Thomas Builds - The – Fire have not always gotten along. While growing up on the same Indian Reservation, they had separate friend groups (Alexie 874). Throughout the movie Smoke Signals, Victor Joseph’s and Thomas Builds – the – Fire’s, friendship strengthens. While Arnold Joseph, Victor’s father, is living in Phoenix, Arizona, he meets his neighbor Suzy Song. In the movie, Victor…

Ta Nehisi Coates Alexander, Michelle. "Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘Between the World and Me’." The New York Times. 11111The New York Times, 16 Aug. 2015. Web. 16 Dec. 2016. 11111. According to Michelle Alexander’s article, “Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘Between the World and Me’,” Coates’s letter to his son repeatedly emphasizes the permanence of racial injustice in America; the foolishness of believing that one person can make a change, and the dangers of believing in the American Dream. Alexander cites…

Sometimes we need to take uncomfortable risks if we wish to change our lives. Even though these decisions at the moment might frighten us we need to make them in order to see hope farther down the road. In Sherman Alexie book Diary of a Part Time Indian Arnold Spirit is a 12-year old boy is a reservation indian who leaves his tribe to pursue a better education at Reardan, which is a all white school. Arnold makes tough decisions that contradict the expectations of his tribe ,because he…

Growing up in poverty doesn’t mean people are short only on money. Those in poverty are exposed to abuse, low academic achievements and education, lack of self-esteem, and an uncertain future. The book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie showcases a Native American teenager, Junior, coming to the realization that his only hopes of attaining a better life, is to leave his own back on the reservation. His decisions lead him to attend a school out of town, with a…

Journey into the Inevitable' Shanti Swaroop Kandala Over the years I have always been asked that one question which probably everyone coming out of their family's highly established occupation would have been asked- "why haven't you taken up law?" As Sherman Alexie in his essay "The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me" narrates that he learned to read with a superman comic book, I realized that I was interested in space when I was amused by flying objects. As a child, I was fortunate to…

Sherman Alexie mixes the Native American world with the middle class white world, creating quite an enlightening mixture of adventure in the novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Arnold (Junior), an Indian teenager, was a nobody; He was “a zero on the rez” (16). Little did Junior know that every thing he thought about himself as a zero is about to be proven wrong. In Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Arnold’s transformation ignited within a maze…

Consequently, these western ideologies in the form of oral narratives are adopted by the tribes of the deep woods and are disseminated in the form of legends, fairy tales, bed time stories the inscription of which are found on the walls but regarded as inferior to the authenticity of Phantom’s precious library and all the relics collected by the Phantomic line down through the ages. The narrative myths, the folklores, the legends of the tribes become subservient to his narratorial authority,…