Sherman Alexie

The Absolutely Diary of a Part-Time Indian In The Absolutely Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie Junio, is a kid in high school who was born with medical problems and gets bullied often because of it. He lives on a Spokane Indian Reservation next to the town Rearden, where he later goes to an all white school. Junior tries to stay positive as he is rejected by his people and classmates. When someone is “straddling two worlds” they have to go “back and forth between the fringes of”…

of the author’s master enlightened the author that lack of knowledge is the reason why black people were slaved by the white, thus he learned to read and write by all means and finally gained his freedom. In the article Superman and Me, author Sherman Alexie had a strong interest in reading his father’s books, which bloomed his literary career later in life. The speech was an important text that shaped Frederick’s…

Sherman Alexie outlines the struggles of several characters in his novel The Toughest Indian in the World. Many of his protagonists suffer from the same quandary related to their Indian heritage, and all of them go to great and unexpected lengths to cure the dissatisfaction they feel with certain aspects of their lives. The narrator Alexie writes about in his short story by the same name, “The Toughest Indian in the World,” encounters an Indian hitchhiker with whom he attempts to combat the…

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…

Some times to forgive people need a break. People may not understand what friendship really is till it is to late. After that the friendship could be over. In the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is about how this boy moves to a different school and everything starts to go down hill. This guys name is Junior. Education can start new friendships and start new hopes and dreams. Many people can make new starts.…

rescuer David, but Alexie uses the cat’s dark hue to illustrate the foreboding hardship for the couple. Sharon and David’s relationship would not be the same had the cat not come between them and tainted it. Although the couple ends up living a happy life, Sharon is constantly keeping David on pins and needles by bringing up his infamous lie. David’s desire to be a hero momentarily destroyed his relationship, all because of the cat. When the couple first stumbled upon the cat, Alexie states that…

Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie, “Learning to Read and Write” by Frederick Douglass, and “Learning to Read” by Malcolm X, one can easily identify the commonalities amongst the three authors. All three men were born into what was considered to be minority ethnicities, during an era when education was discouraged amongst minority races. Alexie was a Native American, while Douglass and Malcolm X were both of the African race. There were also major differences between the writers. Alexie was a…

In Alexie Sherman’s book “Ten Little Indians”, each short story was about multiple sides of living here in America through the eyes of Indian Americans. There were multiple characters within this book that had different lives and scenarios but they all had some correlation to the main point of this book which was to show the struggles, pain, and heartbreak that happens in each of their stories. Two characters that I was intrigued by were in the first two stories in the book. Corliss is a…

books. Something else they did not have was “food in the house”, and most of them do not have anything for breakfast (Alexie 195). Many of the students in Arnold’s school have drunken mothers and fathers, fathers in prison, and Arnold knew that “not one of them” were going to college (Alexie 195). They are stuck in an ugly circle, “and there’s nothing you can do about it” (Alexie 13). This leads to the children and young adults on the reservation to start feeling helpless, causing many to “fade…

hroughout his journey from his poor Indian reservation to a neighboring all white school. Arnold Spirit, the main character in “The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time Indian”. By Sherman Alexie Junior experiences on and off the reservation helped him understand to ignore all the hate, so you can focus on more important thing and follow your dreams even if other disagree. (Body #1: One of the life lesson that Junior learned through his experience was to follow your dreams even if other…