Sherman Alexie

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,…

me, and I find that knowing their literacy stories helps me understand better how to teach them and help them navigate the path to their educational goals. So when I read "Superman and Me," the literacy narrative of one of my favorite writers, Sherman Alexie, I was hooked. In this essay, which was first published in the Los Angeles Times…

Amit’s Response Element Where is hope? What is hope? Who can have hope? Trying to solve these questions, Sherman Alexie’s book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian investigates the journey of a budding 14 year-old cartoonist named Junior, or Arnold Spirit. Being a poor, Indian living on a reservation, that suffers from hydrocephalus, Junior does not get the liberty of having an easy life. He is picked on by everybody other than his best friend Rowdy, the roughest kid on the rez.…

Sherman Alexie is in his middle age and a Native American poet, novelist, performer and filmmaker; although, Much of his writing draws on his experiences as a Native American with ancestry of several tribes, growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. He lives in Seattle, Washington. Early years Sherman Alexie was born on October 7, 1966 on the Spokane reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. His alcoholic father was largely absent during his childhood and his mother worked at several jobs…

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 giving a brief description of his background. He is a…

Harvesting Native Americans: The Theme of Unwilling Sacrifice in “The Sin Eaters” Sherman Alexie’s “The Sin Eaters”, a short story found within The Toughest Indian in the World, tells the story of a young boy named Jonah and his presentiment dreams about war that ultimately come true. In this short story, Native Americans from all parts of the country are stripped from their reservations, bused to prison-like camps, and utilized against their will by the government. When reflecting on this text,…

To begin with, knowledge collected intelligence, you gain knowledge by attending school and learning. In these stories "Superman and Me", by Sherman Alexie, "A Smart Cookie", by Sandra Cisneros, and "Its Our Story Too!" by Ivette Cabrera, all have one thing in common and that is the use of knowledge. In "Superman and Me" Alexie gained knowledge by reading lots of books. In "A Smart Cookie" her mother says he had the knowledge to continue school, but the looks got in her way. In "Its Our Story…

“I refused to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant. I was lucky.” The impact of this quote tells us how he knew he was smart, and lucky. The young indians were thought of to be dumb, and were treated differently, but he stood up, he knew he was smart, he knew that being able to read and being able to have an education made him lucky. The meaning of the quote is very similar to the explanation, because what the quote is saying is that he knew that he was all those things. No one had to tell him that…

Native Americans. Deception was key in the atrocities, the white man would promise “peace” and then brutally murder the Natives. The genocide continues today as alcohol, introduced to the Natives by the Colonists, ravages through the reservations. Sherman Alexie, author of “Evolution”, does not shy away from any of these tough subjects as a Native American man. Alcoholism plagued him and his parents while growing up on the Spokane Reservation in Washington. Alexie’s poem addresses matters of…

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…