Compare and Contrast of "Superman and Me" and "One Writer's Beginning"

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A Compare and Contrast of “Superman and Me” and “One Writer’s Beginnings” October 30, 2012 The essays of “Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie and “One Writer’s Beginnings” by Eudora Welty are primarily similar. The similarities that were found in the two essays ranged: their love for reading impacted their writing careers, the author’s taught themselves to read, and both authors were obviously passionate about reading. I stated before that the two essays are primarily similar. Some of the similarities that I found were simple and to the point, while others were more detailed. The first one being that Alexie and Welty both shared an organizational style of bookcases to hold their books. “Our house was filled with books. They were stacked in crazy piles in the bathroom, bedrooms, and living room.” (Alexie 581). Eventually, as Alexie’s love for reading progressed and his father’s as well, a set of bookshelves were built by his father with his “unemployment-inspired creative energy.” Welty’s bookcases were in their living room and were referred to as “the library.” “…inside the mission-styled bookcases with its three diamond latticed glass doors…were books I could soon begin on…reading them all alike and as they came, straight down their rows, top shelf to bottom.” (Welty 575). Both Alexie and Welty’s pallets of reading ranged dramatically. These examples could be considered both as similarities and differences. Welty talks about the books that were there to help them “grow up arguing” around the dining room table: Unabridged Webster, the Columbia Encyclopedia, Compton’s Pictured Encyclopedia, etc. She spoke of the Every Child’s Story Book that she read very often. It consisted of a variety of fairy tales such as Robin Hood, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the Yellow Dwarf. Alexie learned to read by the comic Superman. After

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