The Business of Fancydancing

The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian is about a fourteen-year-old boy, Junior. In the book, we see how Junior deals with loss, poverty and starting a new life away from the reservation. He explains being poor feels so shitty but, he can't do anything about until he realizes he can be better of the reservation. The history behind the Indian reservations with for the poor “uncivilized Indians”. The poor part about it is true because people we're from the reservation did not have the…

His work cover themes like racism, alcoholism, poverty , injustice , etc that are common problems in Native Americans. He published his first collection of poetry In 1992 " The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Viviane Poems" . One year later his work propose was out ,"The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" in 1993 which won a PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Book of Fiction.Sherman writes followed up with his first novel…

In the story “Superman and Me”, the main character seeks success and defies all odds. His name’s Sherman, a Spokane Indian which lived in a small reservation in Washington. Being arrogant with lots of curiosity he began to read a new language which he was foreign to. His autobiography explains how the love his father had for books made him read books. He loved his father and because he loved his father he chose to love books as well. Who could’ve ever imagined that a Superman comic book would…

Sherman made his first publication, The Business of Fancydancing, in 1992 shortly after finishing college ("Sherman Alexie Biography"). He later made a movie, which he wrote the screenplay for and directed, loosely based on the poem. His best known work The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, is…

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…

Sherman Alexie, as one of the best-known Native American authors in the United States, grew up on a Spokane Indian reservation enclosed by poverty, alcoholism, disease, and against all odds, transpired to become one of the best American writers under forty according to The New Yorker and Granta (Cline 197). Moreover, the New Yorker named Alexie one of the top twenty writers for the twenty-first century (Anonymous 35). Chadwyck-Healey (1) stated that Alexie was influenced by the poetry of Allen…

In the graphic novel The Complete Persepolis the main character and author Marjane Satrapi also feels a sense of disconnect from her culture while she is abroad. Like the Ganguli’s Marjane struggles with the cold reception she receives from the French while she is away from Iran during the Iranian revolution. Unlike the Ganguli’s though Marjane does not have a person to turn to while she is in France who truly understands the struggle of being a minority in a country where she is unwelcomed,…