their audience in an entertaining‚ yet informing‚ way. Realistically‚ any successful person tends to pass off taking any action to help alleviate societal issues such as homelessness because it is not their problem. A well-known poet and writer‚ Sherman Alexie‚ has portrayed the seriousness of homelessness and alcoholism through his short story What You Pawn‚ I Will Redeem. From his experience of growing up on a Spokane Indian reservation in Washington‚ he was able to create a short story about a homeless
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I have re-read this book in a relatively new edition. It is a mixture of Kiowa myths‚ family stories‚ history sketches‚ and personal experiences. For me it evokes a sense of community unknown in modern U.S. society. It also conveys‚ however dimly to the modern scientific mind‚ a deep sense of a peoples’ experience of the sacred where that term is entirely outside of modern theology and is steeped in the land and the memory of a people. It one opens ones mind and emotions the book can connect in a
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Being isolated from society can drive a person insane and even to their grave‚ so having somebody to converse with is important. Stories have repeatedly shown what happens while isolated such as: “This is What It Means to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona” by Sherman Alexie‚ “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner‚ and “A Jury of Her Peers”
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In “The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn’t Flash Red Anymore” by Sherman Alexie the theme for the story would be‚ there is always hope even if there exists a cycle of failure as portrayed on the reservation in the passage. In the passage‚ Victor tells Adrian that he thought “Julius might be the one” but in the end‚ Julius got drunk and lost the game. For a long time‚ Julius symbolized hope on the reservation to make it all the way but it was alcohol that made him lose the game‚ so this
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The short story of “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona” by Sherman Alexie shows the value of a true friendship. A true friend is the one who doesn’t have to physically be by your side the whole time. He can stand aside‚ awaits for your trouble‚ and lends you a hand. A true friend doesn’t care how the world sees him‚ he cares only how his “best” friend view of him. The true friend in this story is Thomas Builds-the-Fire. The story goes back and forth with the present and the past to
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Flight Chapter 1 and 2 In the book Flight‚ written by Sherman Alexie the narrator is a fifteen year old adolescence as well as foster child. The speakers name is anonymous but he insist to be called “Zits” due to the severe acne he has. Zits descends from an Indian and Irish background; his mother was Irish and his father was Indian. Zits’s is characterized with a low self-esteem possibly because his father abandoned the family literally two minutes after Zits was born. Zits became an orphan at
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Sherman Alexie once said “Don’t live up to your stereotypes.”This means to be yourself and not what others stereotype about you. The quote relates to the novel because Ponyboy got stereotyped by other people but he realizes that being a greaser stands out to him and he shouldn’t care what they think about him. In this novel‚ Hinton explores the theme‚ social status does not define who you are on the inside. Johnny impacted Ponyboy by murdering Bob. In the novel it reads‚” ‘I killed him‚’ he said
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Abstract One of the key papers regarding the intrigue of children books is Darknes too visible by Meghan Cox. Another one is why the best kids books are written in blood by Sherman Alexie. The work by Meghan details that in the contemporary‚ there is nothing written for the children audience which is away from darkness and evil. This at one time led to her walking out of a store she had gone in search of a book for her daughter as a gift. Sharman’s work explains the manner in which his work inspired
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4:05 November 29th‚ 2011 Culture vs. Education Culture is an essential element that can impact the way a person sees the world and processes information. “Superman and Me‚” by Sherman Alexie and “Bodega Dreams‚” by Ernesto Quinonez‚ examines the importance of education and the impact it has on cultures. In “Superman and Me” the narrator tells a story about an Indian boy who teaches himself how to read and write at the age of 3 years
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Evelyn Duron 1/29/2013 L202 Justice Served? In Sherman Alexie’s poem‚ “Capital Punishment”‚ a part that was very interesting‚ yet confusing was when the narrator was being sympathetic. The narrator was very considerate of the prisoners. In the poem‚ Alexie makes the narrator be a cook at a jail that had the death row. Perhaps Alexie made the narrator be a cook instead of someone else like a guard or a warden because the cook would not represent the law; the cook just works for the jail. Readers of the poem
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