Regalia

pay for the regalia. The regalia is his most prized possession for it has the memories of his grandmother and it will serve the purpose of being his best accomplishment. At the end he returns to the pawnbroker with no money and the pawnbroker notices he has done many deeds and has been dealing with himself to change. Therefor he gives Jackson the regalia for this, “Did you work hard for this money?”, “He returned with the regalia and said ‘take it’” (28). After Jackson receives the regalia he…

failures. Jackson’s quest to redeem his grandmother’s powwow regalia leads him to his own redemption. Jackson’s quest begins when sees his grandmother’s powwow regalia in a pawn shop window and is given twenty four hours to raise nine hundred and ninety nine dollars to buy it back. He decides to treat the redemption of the regalia as a quest, and it gives him purpose. On his quest to raise the money necessary to buy his grandmother’s powwow regalia, Jackson commits several acts of selfless…

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…

with the task of coming up with nearly one thousand dollars in twenty-four hours in order to reclaim his grandmother’s stolen regalia from a pawn shop. On the way to raise money, he met all kinds of generosity, compassion, kindness, goodwill. “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” is a story of generosity. At the beginning of the story, Jackson passes by a pawn shop and sees a regalia that belonged to his grandmother. It was stolen from her almost fifty years ago. He proves that to the pawn shop owner.…

stereotypically being good with money. This is an odd perspective that’s somewhat contradictory and difficult for Americans to understand: that money isn’t everything, but in a way, his kindness and ambition led to the pawnbroker giving him his grandmother’s regalia anyway. Jackson Jackson’s fellow Native Americans came and went, but the only consistent relationships were with the stable people around him like Mary at 7 Eleven and the nice policeman. When he does start up the conversation with…

accomplish his quest. Not in the best way, but he gets it done. By doing so not only does he redeem his grandmothers regalia, but also redeems himself. Why? Because in the very beginning of the story Jackson sees the regalia at the pawn shop, but did not want to call the cops and make it easy to obtain it. No, he wants to make it a quest. However, he did not win it back the regalia with money. The pawn shop knows that the right thing to do is to give it back to him. (This seems a good…

“What You Pawn I Will Redeem” is an interpretive short story about Jackson Jackson. In this story, Jackson Jackson has found 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…

many jobs, married a couple of times, and fathered two or three kids, then went crazy. He is very cultured and has many experiences with other tribes and Indians around the area. The main conflict is Jackson attempting to regain his grandmother’s regalia from a pawn shop, of which it was stolen from her fifty years ago. He is a very romantic person and decides he does not want to report it stolen, but however, finds the money and goes on a quest to retrieve it back for himself as a part of his…

have dreams and families”. He unapologetically proceeds to introduce his personal perspective on the issue at which time Jackson tells us about an Indian powwow-dance regalia he and his homeless posse find resembling one his past grandmother once owned. While considering his own self interest the pawn shop owner offers to hold the regalia until the next day for Jackson in order for him to raise nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars to purchase it. He hands him twenty dollars to get him started.…

like to admit all the things that he did wrong. For example, he was married a few times and fathers a few of his children. As a reader, you are unable to rely on him because he was suppose to return the dance regalia to the store within twenty-four hours since he things that the dance regalia is his grandmother. Jackson doesn’t understand that it could be his grandmothers, but the owner of the store could have bought it from her and now wants to sell it. Jackson is a typical teenager that drinks…