I Throw My Weight Against Locked Door Analysis

I chose the quote, “I throw my weight against locked doors.” The doors hold. I am smart. I am arrogant. I am lucky. I am trying to save our lives.” I chose this quote because it has a deep meaning to me, which is that Sherman cares deeply about the children’s lives and he believes their success is his success. My favorite part about this quote is the part where he says “I am trying to save our lives.” The quote shows that he believes in them. If someone doesn’t believe in you it’s almost impossible to accomplish anything, so by saying this Sherman is giving them drive and a fighting chance to accomplish something in their lives.
The quote starts out saying that he throws his weight against locked doors which means, he is pushing the children to learn to read and write. By saying this, he is metaphorically stating how he is trying to persuade and encourage the children to want to learn so that they can do something useful with their lives. By saying that the doors hold he is showing how some of the children won’t let him in and won’t try in school because they are doing what everyone expects them to do, fail. He wants the children to try, and he knows they can, but the people around them discourage them. Sherman is trying to
I was smart. I was arrogant. I was lucky,” and at the end of that paragraph, “I was trying to save my life.” He is trying to save his own life life just as he is trying to save the children’s lives. He knows that people outside of the reservation, Non- Indians, and even some people inside reservation, Teachers and some other Indians, expect them to fail. Sherman wants to surprise these people, he wants to make fools out of these people in a way where he wants the children to surpass the hatred in those expectations and succeed in school and in life. “I am trying to save our lives.” He is trying not only to save them, but to save