M4 Sherman

Annotated Bibliography Alexie, Sherman. “A Good Story.” The St. Martin’s Guide to Writing. Eds. Rise B. Alexrod, Charles R. Cooper. Ninth Edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2010. 557-560. Print. Alexie Sherman is a well-educated Native American Indian, who had published several poems and novels, as well as screen plays. Sherman’s short stories such as “A Good Story informs readers “if you want to hear a good story, you have to listen” (Sherman558). The main point in his stories is to…

In Sherman Alexie’s works “Smoke Signals” and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven and Flight, all demonstrate how a parents’ abandonment can cause a destructive aftermath on their child. The main characters in each story blame their fathers for all the tribulations that they had to go through in their lives. Only the truth of their fathers’ abandonment will allow them to accept their anger and grief and give them the capability to move on with their lives. In the story Flight, Zits’…

Sherman Alexis is about a boy named Arnold Spirit, also known as Junior. He is a Native American that lives in the Indian Reservation. Junior, his family, and even the community, faced poverty and struggled financially throughout the novel. The theme Poverty is demonstrated through Junior's experiences with his family, community, and himself; showing that poverty squashed hope on the reservation, but Junior willingly fights for freedom and gives readers hope that things will change. In the…

will be unable to relate to the following two authors, who both had hardship and serious internal struggles while trying to master what most would consider a necessity to function in society. In “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me,” Sherman Alexie begins sharing his experiences as a young and motivated reader. Like the title states, Alexie claims to have learned how to read on his own by picking up a Superman comic book. Alexie goes back to explain his earliest years as a Native…

by Sherman Alexie. Alexie believed this is what he was and will be. Sherman Alexie was a young Spokane Indian boy that lived on a reservation with the provided needs to live. His family was poor but still managed to obtain all of the necessary essentials. One thing that they had an abundance of was books. The father of Alexie was fascinated with reading, so Alexie thought that he should be too. With the knowledge Sherman obtained from these books, he was smart, arrogant, and lucky. Sherman…

use learning to read as an escape from their troubles and it ends up becoming the answer to them. Alexie and Malcolm X contained a strong level of determination and persistence when teaching themselves to read and write. Throughout their lives, Sherman Alexie and Malcolm X broke down the barriers of systematic racism and eventually helped persuade others to do the same, which proves that overcoming a disability gives one the confidence needed to thrive. (self-confidence is acquired...?) By…

oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different,” King should know having written many novels that are adapted to films. Both the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian and screen play of the film Smoke Signals, written by Sherman Alexie, attempts to demolish the idea of an archetypal aboriginal person from a Native “Rez,” but the film addresses this in a more effective way. The film has a naïve Thomas and an indifferent Victor who travel out of the “Rez” to collect…

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie is about a fourteen year boy named Arnold Spirit who lives on the Spokane Indian Reservation that is drowning in poverty. Arnold lives with his family, surrounded by other poor Native Americans with depression and alcoholism. With his appearance and many health issues, he is often targeted on the reservation. A desire to break away from a place lacking hope and opportunity motives Arnold to transfer to Reardan. After shifting…

What does reading do to you? How does it do it? Why does it do it? In Sherman Alexie’s narrative “Super Man and Me” he explains how reading saved his life. Alexie explains the many ways how it can also save other people’s lives. Alexie’s theme of his narrative is not only trying to save his own life but his families’ lives too. Some ways he created that theme is by using metaphors like, superman breaking down doors, seeing the world in paragraphs, and him trying to save his life. Alexie’s…

Flood-head kid leaves an all Indian town to join an all white town. He shocks the whole new school by leaving his best friend Rowdy. The kid that appears to be looking as a Flood-head is a fourteen year old boy commonly known as Junior. However, to not be confused, his real birth name is actually Arnold Spirit Junior. To most of us, Junior might seem like the son of a father, however, it is quite a popular name located in the small Spokane Indian reservation. The Spokane Indian reservation was…