Sherman Alexie Indian Education Analysis

I wanted to ask you again. Since it has been almost six years since I have set foot in your classroom, I need to ask: “what is good writing?”. I mostly wanted to talk to you about Sherman Alexie’s essay Indian Education, and why I believe that this story is good writing. And how Alexie ’s demonstrates content and form perfectly by creating a story that any English teacher would and should have given willingly an “A” to. First off, Indian Education pushes the boundaries of what constitutes what you believe, and I used to too, of what forms a properly written essay. There is no intro, body paragraphs, or even what you a middle school Language Arts teacher would call a conclusion. Forming more of a detailed story-like timeline. What it does have is a strong rhetoric allowing me and many other young adults who question the purpose of school as the way to help them succeed. As Alexie wrote, “The bright students are shaken, frightened, because they don't know what comes next”(Alexie 110) We were all the bright students one way or another and
Schluter intercepted and confiscated my art. Censorship, I might cry now. Freedom of expression, I would write in editorials to the tribal newspaper. In third grade, though, I stood alone in the corner, faced the wall, and waited for the punishment to end. I’m still waiting” (Alexie 106). I have used this excerpt because to me it encompasses what the whole entire essay is about. You can see Alexie’s Purpose for writing in these few lines. It takes not only a good writer but a great writer to be able to sow his whole entire meaning into every single word he has written. To me he is showing the struggles of a child expressing themselves, bringing back the question of what is good writing. And if teachers are stopping children from expressing themselves Ms. Wager even if it is just in writing, are they even qualified to judge a person’s