Robert B. Sherman

Author, Sherman Alexie, in his narrative essay, “Superman and Me,” discusses how literature played a huge role in his life growing up as an Indian boy, and the power it wields in life. Alexie’s purpose is to force his audience to understand his view of inequality. He adopts an emotional and analytic tone in order to translate to his audience of society as a whole his beliefs surrounding inequality and the power of reading and writing. Alexie starts his introduction paragraph in his narrative…

Over the summer, I read The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and All American Boys. I also watched the movie A Man Named Pearl and wrote about segregation in America. These sources revealed that people will knock you down because of something about you, the only thing that matters, though, is if you get back up. First of all, I read The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Arnold got knocked down by his old friends, new classmates, and society itself. His classmates thought…

George Orwell and John Didion both had different reasons for why they write. Orwell focuses on the four main motivations for writing, while Didion focuses on self-exploration as his motivation to write. For Alexie it is a mix of both of these reasons. On one hand, Alexie wants to share his experiences growing up on a reservation and his struggles to escape the typical “Indian” life. On the other, he also writes to explore who he is and what he thinks. Growing up, he felt very isolated from…

A few men or potentially women experience encounters that can be the most noticeably awful thing that has ever happen to them. In any case, subsequently from that, can make them stronger from what they were some time recently. A man named Sherman Alexie in “The Joy of Reading and Writing” was depicts this situation Alexie has been raised on the Spokane Indian Reservation. His family was poor yet one of his folks constantly found an occupation to keep up the family. Alexie is one of the…

In Sherman Alexie’s “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part–Time Indian” we look into a young boy’s mind and are able to catch a glimpse of what it is like to break the boundaries of one’s culture, and the repercussions of such an act. Very early in the text Junior tells his parents he wants to go to Reardon, a school off the reservation, because he wanted more than the reservation high school could offer him. After being asked by his parents if he was sure he wanted to immediately switch schools…

The name of Dr. Seuss has taken over the industry of children literacy. Known as Theodor Geisel, he was able to surround his whole life around literature and drawing. Starting by creating cartoons for newspapers and magazines for advertising as well as political cartoons, Dr. Seuss eventually moved on to writing children’s stories. This is when he found out that his first wife, Helen Palmer, was not able to have children. Dr. Seuss wanted to create books for the sake of reading development in…

A brief description of Sherman Alexie’s book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian can be presented as a typical young adult story. It tells readers about Arnold Spirit Jr. a gifted boy born and raised in an Indian reservation, possessed by the dream of becoming an artist, one day challenges the system and enters Reardan High School - a better school for white students. Despite the traditional for such genre set of plot moves, such as first love, the first fight, first complexes, the…

The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian was written by Don C. Talayesva. In this book, Don Talayesva talks about his way of life as a Hopi Indian and the hardships of his life. He also mentions the different rituals their culture has and the reasoning for all of the ceremonies. When Don is first introduced to the reader he is talking about when he was in his mother's womb. He and his family believe that Don was a twin but Don’s mother told the doctor how she only wanted one kid. The doctor…

was lucky……” -Sherman Alexie Jr. In the essay ‘Superman and Me’ by Sherman Alexie Jr, he talks about the struggles growing up from his childhood. Alexie and his family is from the Spokane tribe, and his parents raised him and his other relatives in the Spokane Reservation in Washington. Mr. Alexie’s father, being one of the few Indians that willingly went to school, had a great affect on him. Being that today the author has written and produced a lot of successful short stories. Sherman Alexie…

was written today, it would be highlighting the sexualization of girls, and Donald Trump’s view on women. There would be an uproar that girls in bathing suits are treated differently than men in bathing suits because of their natural figures. In Sherman Alexie’s “An Indian Education” the narrator goes through thirteen years of schooling and bullying. Alexie is mainly bullied for his ethnicity and being different from the white kids at school. The white teachers do not respect him or his…