Stereotypes In Sherman Alexie's Short Story 'Flight Patterns'
November 7-2013
Judgments, Fair or Not
Most of the time; we are judged by our looks, color of skin and nationality. It does not matter how hard you try to be a better person, to be a professional, to have a decent job, to be acknowledged for what you are and not how you look, people still first see what is in the outside. In the short story “Flight Patterns” by Sherman Alexie gives a very good example of how society stereotypes a person. Alexie used stereotypes to show readers that instead of judging of appearances we should get to know a person first.
In the short story by Alexie, we see how stereotyping takes place in the life of William the main character, a salesman that has to travel a lot and leave his family behind while …show more content…
Sometimes we are not able to understand or to take someone’s story or experience because we can think or give different interpretations, for example we van think that everything is a lie and start to have an internal argument to just to look for the bad thinks about the person’s experienced, or we could take kind of offensive because we are not able to understand that not everybody has the same story that we have different stories in different environment and different consequences. For example on the short story we see William that after he talked with Fedaku and after he listened to his story he was not believing everything he said from the beginning, because at the end of the story we see how William hesitated to call his wife “he left his bags and ran inside the terminal. Let the luggage porter think his bags were dangerous! Let a security guard x-ray the bags ……..he ran through the terminal, searching for an available phone, a landline, something true and connected to the ground, and he finally found one and dropped two quarters in to the slot and dialed home number……. and William worried that his wife and daughter were harmed, were lying dead on the floor, but then Marie answered. “Hello, William” she said. “I’m here,” he said.”(para
Judgments, Fair or Not
Most of the time; we are judged by our looks, color of skin and nationality. It does not matter how hard you try to be a better person, to be a professional, to have a decent job, to be acknowledged for what you are and not how you look, people still first see what is in the outside. In the short story “Flight Patterns” by Sherman Alexie gives a very good example of how society stereotypes a person. Alexie used stereotypes to show readers that instead of judging of appearances we should get to know a person first.
In the short story by Alexie, we see how stereotyping takes place in the life of William the main character, a salesman that has to travel a lot and leave his family behind while …show more content…
Sometimes we are not able to understand or to take someone’s story or experience because we can think or give different interpretations, for example we van think that everything is a lie and start to have an internal argument to just to look for the bad thinks about the person’s experienced, or we could take kind of offensive because we are not able to understand that not everybody has the same story that we have different stories in different environment and different consequences. For example on the short story we see William that after he talked with Fedaku and after he listened to his story he was not believing everything he said from the beginning, because at the end of the story we see how William hesitated to call his wife “he left his bags and ran inside the terminal. Let the luggage porter think his bags were dangerous! Let a security guard x-ray the bags ……..he ran through the terminal, searching for an available phone, a landline, something true and connected to the ground, and he finally found one and dropped two quarters in to the slot and dialed home number……. and William worried that his wife and daughter were harmed, were lying dead on the floor, but then Marie answered. “Hello, William” she said. “I’m here,” he said.”(para